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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

A book or pamphlet containing an enumeration of things

Example:

he found it in the Sears catalog

Synonyms:

catalog; catalogue

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("catalog" is a kind of...):

book (a written work or composition that has been published (printed on pages bound together))

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "catalog"):

course catalog; course catalogue; prospectus (a catalog listing the courses offered by a college or university)

Derivation:

catalog (make an itemized list or catalog of; classify)

catalog (make a catalogue, compile a catalogue)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A complete list of things; usually arranged systematically

Example:

it does not pretend to be a catalog of his achievements

Synonyms:

catalog; catalogue

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("catalog" is a kind of...):

list; listing (a database containing an ordered array of items (names or topics))

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "catalog"):

discography (a descriptive catalog of musical recordings)

library catalog; library catalogue (an enumeration of all the resources of a library)

parts catalog; parts catalogue (a list advertising parts for machinery along with prices)

seed catalog; seed catalogue (a list advertising seeds and their prices)

Derivation:

catalog (make an itemized list or catalog of; classify)

catalog (make a catalogue, compile a catalogue)

 II. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Make an itemized list or catalog of; classify

Example:

He is cataloguing his photographic negatives

Synonyms:

catalog; catalogue

Classified under:

Verbs of thinking, judging, analyzing, doubting

Hypernyms (to "catalog" is one way to...):

assort; class; classify; separate; sort; sort out (arrange or order by classes or categories)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Derivation:

catalog (a book or pamphlet containing an enumeration of things)

catalog (a complete list of things; usually arranged systematically)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Make a catalogue, compile a catalogue

Example:

She spends her weekends cataloguing

Synonyms:

catalog; catalogue

Classified under:

Verbs of sewing, baking, painting, performing

Hypernyms (to "catalog" is one way to...):

compile; compose (put together out of existing material)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s

Derivation:

catalog (a book or pamphlet containing an enumeration of things)

catalog (a complete list of things; usually arranged systematically)

Credits

 Context examples: 

In 2007, NHGRI launched modENCODE to catalog functional elements in the Caenorhabditis elegans (roundworm) and Drosophila melanogaster (fruit fly) genomes.

(Expanding Our Understanding of Genomics, NIH)

The atlas is the culmination of work from the Genotype-Tissue Expression (GTEx) Consortium, established to catalog how genomic variation influences how genes are turned off and on.

(NIH completes atlas of human DNA differences that influence gene expression, National Institutes of Health)

Analysis was performed on the Kepler space telescope's July 2015 planet candidate catalog, which identified 4,302 potential planets.

(Kepler Mission Announces Largest Collection of Planets Ever Discovered, NASA)

Among the growing catalog of planets outside our solar system — known as exoplanets — ultrahot Jupiters have stood out as a distinct class for about a decade.

(Water Is Destroyed, Then Reborn in Ultrahot Jupiters, NASA/JPL)

TESS Object of Interest (TOI) 270 is a faint, cool star more commonly identified by its catalog name: UCAC4 191-004642.

(NASA’s TESS Mission Scores ‘Hat Trick’ With 3 New Worlds, NASA)

By watching these stellar dancers, NASA's Kepler space telescope during its K2 mission has helped amass the most complete catalog of rotation periods for stars in a cluster.

(Kepler Watches Stellar Dancers in the Pleiades Cluster, NASA)

The catalog, reference, or product number found on the device label or accompanying packaging to identify a particular product.

(Catalog Number, Food and Drug Administration)

This database is a catalog of human genes and genetic disorders authored and edited by Dr. Victor A. McKusick and his colleagues at Johns Hopkins and elsewhere, and developed for the World Wide Web by NCBI, the National Center for Biotechnology Information.

(Online Mendelian Inheritance in Man, NCI Thesaurus)

According to the catalog of near-Earth objects (NEOs) kept by the Minor Planet Center, this is the closest currently known approach by an object this large until asteroid 1999 AN10, at about 2,600 feet (800 meters) in size, approaches at about 1 lunar distance (238,000 miles from Earth) in August 2027.

(Halloween Asteroid a Treat for Radar Astronomers, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

In 2003, NIH’s National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI) launched the ENCyclopedia Of DNA Elements (ENCODE) consortium to catalog these functional elements in the human genome.

(Expanding Our Understanding of Genomics, NIH)