The meaning of Cataloguing

verb

Arrange in alphabetical order.

Usage examples:

The listings are arranged by state and alphabetized by city

verb

To arrange a list of words in alphabetical order

Usage examples:

Is there a standard way to alphabetize abbreviations?

noun

A collection of historical documents or records providing information about a place, institution, or group of people.

Usage examples:

Source materials in local archives

verb

Place or store (something) in an archive.

Usage examples:

The challenges involved in displaying and archiving information on the web are huge and the move to…

noun

The documents showing the history of a place, organization, or family, or the place where these are kept

Usage examples:

The author’s manuscripts are in the college archives., i’m doing some archival research on my famil…

verb

Place in a particular class or group.

Usage examples:

Silk is categorized as a luxury import

verb

To put people or things into groups of people or things that have the same features

Usage examples:

Categorize sb/sth as sth you can categorize your company's strategy as a reactor, defender, analyze…

verb

Arrange (a group of people or things) in classes or categories according to shared qualities or characteristics.

Usage examples:

Mountain peaks are classified according to their shape

verb

Arrange or order by categories

verb

To divide things into groups according to type

Usage examples:

We classify our books by subject.

verb

Mention (a number of things) one by one.

Usage examples:

There is not space to enumerate all his works

verb

To name things separately, one by one

Usage examples:

The salesman enumerated the features of the car.

noun

A folder or box for holding loose papers together and in order for easy reference.

Usage examples:

A file of correspondence

verb

Place (a document) in a cabinet, box, or folder in a particular order.

Usage examples:

The contract, when signed, is filed

verb

(of a group of people) walk one behind the other, typically in an orderly and solemn manner.

Usage examples:

The mourners filed into the church

noun

(in a book or set of books) an alphabetical list of names, subjects, etc. with reference to the pages on which they are mentioned.

Usage examples:

Clear cross references supplemented by a thorough index

verb

Record (names, subjects, etc.) in an index.

Usage examples:

The list indexes theses under regional headings

noun

An alphabetical list, such as one printed at the back of a book showing on which page a name or subject appears, or computer information ordered in a particular way

Usage examples:

If you want to find the place in the text that henry james is mentioned, look it up in the index., …

noun

A complete list of items such as property, goods in stock, or the contents of a building.

Usage examples:

About 6 per cent of the slaves listed as sick in inventories of sugar properties suffered from cans…

verb

Make a complete list of.

Usage examples:

I inventoried his collection of drawings

verb

A detailed list of all the items in stock

verb

Present as a list of individual items.

Usage examples:

I have itemized the morning's tasks

verb

To list particular things separately

Usage examples:

I always itemize deductions on my income tax.

verb

To list things such as payments or charges separately, usually including details about each

Usage examples:

He was accused of failing to report payments to political consultants and failing to itemize credit…

noun

A number of connected items or names written or printed consecutively, typically one below the other.

Usage examples:

Consult the list of drugs on page 326

verb

Make a list of.

Usage examples:

I have listed four reasons below

noun

An instance of a ship listing to one side.

Usage examples:

The gallery walls are lined with marine ply, angled to give an echo of the list of a ship under sail.

noun

A part of the trunk or a large branch of a tree that has fallen or been cut off.

Usage examples:

She tripped over a fallen log

verb

Enter (an incident or fact) in the log of a ship or aircraft or in another systematic record.

Usage examples:

The incident has to be logged

noun

Short for logarithm.

Usage examples:

Log values

noun

A small recess for a domestic pigeon to nest in.

Usage examples:

It's fortunate that they set up those pigeonholes because some of the pigeons have come home to roo…

verb

Assign to a particular category, typically an overly restrictive one.

Usage examples:

I was pigeonholed as a ‘youth writer’

verb

To put someone or something into a group or type, often unfairly

Usage examples:

He’s was pigeonholed early on in his career as a gospel singer.

noun

A thing constituting a piece of evidence about the past, especially an account kept in writing or some other permanent form.

Usage examples:

You should keep a written record

verb

Set down in writing or some other permanent form for later reference.

Usage examples:

They were asked to keep a diary and record everything they ate or drank

verb

Anything providing permanent evidence about past events

noun

An official list or record of names or items.

Usage examples:

A membership register

verb

Short for cash register.

verb

To record someone’s name or ownership of property on an official list

Usage examples:

[ t ] i registered the car in my name., [ + to infinitive ] voters have until february 16 to regist…

verb

Arrange according to an organized system; make systematic.

Usage examples:

Galen set about systematizing medical thought

verb

Arrange or carry out according to an orderly plan

verb

Another term for systematize.

verb

Arrange (data) in tabular form.

Usage examples:

The system is designed to enable users to extract, analyse, and tabulate data

verb

To arrange facts, numbers, or other information in the form of a table

Usage examples:

We plan to tabulate the findings of our survey.

verb

To arrange information in the form of a table (= in rows or columns)

Usage examples:

The results of the survey have not yet been tabulated., the reports tabulated statistics on income,…