1A complete list of items, typically one in alphabetical or other systematic order.

1. 1.1 A list of all the books or resources in a library.
   图书馆藏书（或资源）目录
   a computerized library catalogue

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   • Library users can now also access the library catalogue and renew their books on line.
   • We have put our library catalog online, and now we are investing in a new collections information management strategy.
   • As well as the new computerised book-issue system, library users will be able to access the library services catalogue of more than 500,000 books and other items.
   • A limited amount of downloadable material is provided and the library catalogue, including video and audio material, can be viewed online.
   • Over a century ago, Charles Cutter established a methodology for creating library catalogs called Rules for a Dictionary Catalog.
   • Imagine going to a library catalogue and not only getting the books but web pages also.
   • Library card catalogs are a well-established type of metadata, and they have served as collection management and resource discovery tools for decades.
   • They didn't know how to search the library catalogue, they didn't know what a Dewey Decimal number was.
   • We are hoping to set up a consortium of institute libraries with a standardised catalogue and a strong policy on resource sharing.
   • At that point, more than 400 library catalogs were accessible on the Internet.
   • I enjoy connecting people with stories and ideas, first in bookstores, now through library catalogs and supporting local storytellers and authors.
   • The IPAC allows library customers to browse the book catalogue, to reserve items online and to view their personal accounts.
   • Specimen data in the museums are often maintained in a form of catalogs similar to bibliographic catalogues in the libraries.
   • A catalogue of its library survives from 1372, listing 646 items.
   • I have done my best to trace the publishing history through the catalogue of the British Library, which should in theory have a copy of every book ever published in the UK.
   • Shortly thereafter, libraries began offering Web-based resources such as online catalogs and article databases.
   • But, when I clicked on to their library catalogues, I found little boxes instead of roman script.
   • The rambling website of the Royal Institute of British Architects is good in parts, especially its library catalogue.
   • She explained what kinds of searches would work well in the library catalog, or various licensed databases, or in Internet searching.
   • The system would have to support cross database searching, allowing the user to search online catalogs of library and archive collections, Web resources, and the CDP union catalog.
2. 1.2 A publication containing details of items for sale, especially one produced by a mail-order company.
   （尤指邮购公司的）待售商品目录
   a mail-order catalogue

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   • As the twentieth century wore on, railroads and mail-order catalogs supplanted the country stores.
   • More shopping will also be done from the home, with consumers turning to the Internet, mail-order catalogs and even party-based and other direct-selling businesses.
   • Purchase wood veneer at craft stores and through woodworking mail-order catalogs.
   • She once spent an entire morning poring over a mail-order catalogue.
   • Most of these good-looking, solid and sculptural vanity units are not cheap, although the high street and mail-order catalogues are catching up with the trend.
   • Henna powder can be found at Indian grocery stores, on the Internet, and in mail-order catalogs.
   • With so many fun new choices and tried-and-true favorites to choose from, gardeners this fall should find excitement in mail-order bulb catalogues and garden center aisles.
   • It was founded in 1990 as a mail-order catalog, the sales from which still account for part of its $3 million in revenues.
   • The Seattle venture has expanded to include two New York City stores, a mail-order catalog, and a Web site.
   • Consumers are quite at home with the concept of mail order from a catalogue, or telephone ordering in response to a home shopping advertisement.
   • Americans buy one-third of their bulbs, based on value of sales, through mail-order catalogues.
   • If you buy something from a brick and mortar store, or even from their mail-order catalog, you usually don't run into any serious problems.
   • Provided it is safe to do so, pictures will be taken of the sheep for sale and a catalogue produced for display both on the internet and via the post.
   • Perennials are widely available from both local nurseries and garden centers and a burgeoning number of mail-order catalogs.
   • Whether you order from the catalogues or not, it's sheer pleasure to look at the colourful photographs and a good place to pick up ideas for the garden.
   • You'll find the greatest selection of daylilies in the catalogs of mail-order specialists.
   • In any case, poor roads and the restrictions of travel by horse meant that farmers had few options but to shop at nearby towns, although they could always purchase some goods through the mail-order catalogues.
   • If you don't have favorite mail-order catalogues delivered already, you can send away for them from advertisements found in your favorite garden magazines.
   • She is now looking to produce a catalogue and boost the mail order side of her business.
   • Hyacinths are available wherever flower bulbs are sold, including garden centers, home centers, supermarkets and mail-order catalogues.

   Synonyms

   brochure, prospectus, guide, magalogue, mailer

   North American informal wish book
3. 1.3 A list of works of art in an exhibition or collection, with detailed comments and explanations.
   （有详细评论和解释的）艺术展品（或收藏品）目录
   this collection of paintings is the subject of a detailed catalogue

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   • Even with a detailed accompanying catalogue, it is difficult to comprehend the complicated workings of the apparatus, but that hardly seems to matter.
   • Both the catalogue and the exhibition are highly recommended to all lovers of drawings.
   • The catalogue that accompanies the exhibition takes up the political questions hinted at in the show more directly.
   • Exhibition catalogues are now the chief way in which new academic research is published for a wide audience.
   • The catalogue will be on sale at the gallery during the exhibition and in bookstores after it closes.
   • Both are catalogues accompanying major exhibitions of Minimalism and Geometric Abstraction in the postwar period.
   • He writes in the exhibition catalogue that the works are attempts to recapture early memories.
   • A total of eight Orkney chairs featured in the sale catalogue, and exceeded their estimates, according to Bonham organisers.
   • A dandy, a wit, an inveterate controversialist, he conducted a series of campaigns against the public and critics in the form of pamphlets, annotated exhibition catalogues, and letters to the press.
   • In keeping with this belief, he never left details such as the design of exhibition announcements and catalogues to the graphic designers usually hired by galleries and museums.
   • They include exhibition catalogues, works on art theory and works on individual artists.
   • The catalogues for each exhibition make significant contributions to existing scholarship.
   • An excerpt from the undated letter was published after her death in the catalogue of the memorial exhibition of her collection.
   • The full colour catalogue with its detailed and informative text is a bonus though it is a pity that priced at R150.00, it is beyond the means of much of the local market.
   • Exhibitions and their catalogues are collaborative efforts that are notoriously difficult to control, with impossible deadlines and conflicting demands.
   • All three of his gifts of collections have been accompanied by exhibitions and exhibition catalogues that Fred, working alongside curators and our publisher, has helped to research and fund.
   • Several contributors to the exhibition's catalogue commented on the swing in art-world attention.
   • The catalogue of the exhibition recorded that in its first decade the museum had held 112 exhibitions attended by about one-and-a-half million people.
   • Several exhibition catalogues have broken new ground in Japanese art studies by focusing on modernism or the transnational aspects of Japanese artistic practice.
   • This collection is the catalogue of an exhibition held at Istituto Italiano di Cultura in Toronto, Victoria and Winnipeg.

   Synonyms

   directory, register, index, list, listing, record, archive, inventory, roll, table, calendar, classification, roster
4. 1.4US A list of courses offered by a university or college.
   〈美〉大学课程目录
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   • Counselors and college catalogues tell you the main story, but not all the alternatives.
   • I just started college, and every course in the catalogue looks exciting.
   • Both course catalogs and class schedules were obtained from each college in the sample.
   • Parents were given copies of the college catalog and asked to spend a few minutes looking through it and making observations.
   • The mission of the college is stated as follows in its course catalogue and faculty handbook.
   • The exit test requirement was added to the catalog course descriptions for the three courses.
   • Inter-institutional courses increase a university's catalog of course offerings and each participating institution collects their own tuition.
   • Check their catalogs to see if they offer Greek studies.
   • Everything from departmental memos to the college catalog was posted on the school Web page.
   • He accessed a mission statement for each institution from the general information, college catalogues, or accreditation information posted on each college's Web site.
   • In other business, the senate approved changes to the next university catalog.
   • The class was offered through the university's catalog for the School of Continuing and Professional Studies.
   • I will return to this point in the conclusion, but it is important to underline that rhetoric courses can not be easily categorized even in course catalogues.
   • The course summaries in my university's catalog, the themes of the lecture series, and the editorial content of the student newspapers suggest that many students and faculty would agree.
   • This process involved the sharing of catalogs, course descriptions and, ultimately, conversations between faculty members at both campuses.
   • Before taking the job or even applying for it, I spent a morning at the school looking at the lab, browsing through the college catalog and talking to the students.
   • Slightly over one half said they read college brochures or catalogs, and one in four said they visited college websites.
   • Almost all universities have Web sites; many put descriptive material, course catalogs, application information, and more on the Internet.
   • In the late 1960s, the phrase started making its way into law school course catalogues.
   • The course catalog listed the class as Osteoporosis Risk Reduction.
5. 1.5in singular A series of unwelcome or unpleasant things.
   一系列不幸（或坏事）
   his life was a catalogue of dismal failures

   他的一生是一系列凄惨的失败。

   Example sentencesExamples

   • There was just a series, a catalogue of disasters, culminating in the Hollywood cameraman's French sophisticated camera, falling over on the spot.
   • My catalogue of unpleasant happenings continued.

1Make a systematic list of (items of the same type)

1. 1.1 Enter (an item) in a catalogue.
   把…编入目录
   the picture was withdrawn before being catalogued

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   • A total of 198 yearlings have been cataloged for the three sessions of the auction, which produced record results last year.
   • A record 40 juvenile colts and geldings purchased from sales from around the world have been cataloged for the event that will be conducted by Keeneland Association.
2. 1.2 List (similar situations, qualities, or events) in succession.
   连续列举（类似情况、属性或事件）
   the report catalogues dangerous work practices in the company

   这份报告逐一列举公司危险的工作法。

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   • The authority has also recently published its own best value performance plan to catalogue this year's achievements and detail its plans for the future.
   • This kind of tacit knowledge system does not attempt to capture and catalog the specific ‘knowledge’ that an individual might have.
   • One of the authors of the report said that by cataloguing the deaths his team hoped to quantify the casualties that were missed or ignored in official reports.
   • In organizations, investigations are commissioned to catalogue an individual's failures and misdemeanours.
   • The report catalogued the increase of both kinds of appointments, the exploitation of faculty in such positions, and the accelerating negative effects of these practices on higher education.
   • Then there is the memorable, which must be catalogued and archived.
   • In this way, he is a documentarian-poet, cataloguing the trials of his tribe with a sense of humour, irony, and sincerity.
   • Somebody should have catalogued his increasingly belligerent rhetoric, compared and contrasted his statements to prior formulations, and laid out one or more plausible explanations for the change.
   • Studies conducted over the years catalogue many of its effects.
   • All I have done in this piece is, while cataloguing some of the achievements, point out that in total they do not add up to what was promised in the original prospectus.
   • Bill Brandt was born in 1904 and is seen as one of the most successful photographers in cataloguing the changes in the landscape and society of Great Britain in the last century.
   • In their last visit before the struggling school was reopened, inspectors catalogued a series of shortcomings, including poor planning, poor teaching and poor control by staff.
   • This is far from being a work of mere trainspotting; in fact, in a strange way, it catalogues the architectural, social and economic history of modern Britain.
   • The speech catalogues a series of charges against Philip of Spain, which a contemporary audience would no doubt have recognised, if not with reference to specific incidents, then as a more general confirmation of their suspicions.
   • Moreover, their works catalogue some of the social processes in Europe over the past century.
   • The film catalogs his other failures as teacher, father, provider, writer, and now dreamer.
   • Why on Earth do they feel the need to catalogue every moment of their trip?
   • The officer's strengths and weaknesses in terms of aptitude for senior assignments should be cataloged; specific, positive accomplishments should be included.

   Synonyms

   present, describe, set out, set forth, draw up, delineate, frame