Catalogue vs Compendium - What's the difference?
catalogue | compendium |
A systematic list of names, books, pictures etc.
* {{quote-news
, year=2012
, date=May 5
, author=Phil McNulty
, title=Chelsea 2-1 Liverpool
, work=BBC Sport
A complete (usually alphabetical) list of items.
A list of all the publications in a library.
(US) A university calendar.
(computing, dated) A directory listing.
* 1983 , Helpline'' (in ''Sinclair User issue 21)
* 2003 , "Brotha G", Repairing Microdrive Cartridges'' (on newsgroup ''comp.sys.sinclair )
To put into a catalogue.
To make a catalogue of.
To add items (e.g. books) to an existing catalogue.
A short, complete summary; an abstract.
A list or collection of various items.
* 2008 , Caroline Murphy, Murder of a Medici Princess (page 157)
# (label) A collected body of information on the standards of strength, purity, and quality of drugs.
As a verb catalogue
is .As a noun compendium is
a short, complete summary; an abstract.catalogue
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Alternative forms
* catalogNoun
(en noun)citation, page= , passage=The Reds were on the back foot early on when a catalogue of defensive errors led to Ramires giving Chelsea the lead. Jay Spearing conceded possession in midfield and Ramires escaped Jose Enrique far too easily before scoring at the near post with a shot Reina should have saved.}}
- The program generates a catalogue of the files on the cartridge selected by the user, reads the catalogue into memory and erases the cartridge copy, so that an up-to-date copy is always generated.
- It has two extra options using extended syntax. CAT - an extended catalogue but not as detailed as some I've seen. ( The reason that the Spectrum CAT command is restricted is that it cleverly uses the 512 bytes data buffer of the microdrive channel to sort the filenames - hence the limit of 50 ten-character filenames )
Synonyms
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(wikipedia compendium)Noun
(en-noun)- It was this last variety which formed the backbone of the first published Italian compendium of games, Innocenzo Ringhieri's One Hundred Games of Liberality and Ingenuity of 1551, dedicated to Cathérine de' Medici.