What's the difference between catalogue and handbook?

Catalogue


Definition:

  • (n.) A list or enumeration of names, or articles arranged methodically, often in alphabetical order; as, a catalogue of the students of a college, or of books, or of the stars.
  • (v. t.) To make a list or catalogue; to insert in a catalogue.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Modern art was interpreted in the catalogue as a conspiracy by Russian Bolsheviks and Jewish dealers to destroy European culture.
  • (2) This week they are wrestling with the difficult issue of how prisoners can order clothes for themselves now that clothing companies are discontinuing their printed catalogues and moving online.
  • (3) Sculthorpe’s catalogue consists of more than 350 pieces ranging from solos to orchestral works and opera.
  • (4) A catalogue of errors allowed the broadcast on Radio 2 of a series of obscene messages the pair had left on the actor Andrew Sachs's answerphone.
  • (5) We have used these anatomical studies on Pseudemys and Mauremys retina to form a catalogue of neural types for the turtle retina in general.
  • (6) The contrast between the snail's pace of negotiations and the rapid rise in emissions catalogued by the International Energy Agency could scarcely be more marked.
  • (7) In this study specific limb and eye movements plus other ictal phenomena were catalogued from the neurologic literature on frontal lobe seizures.
  • (8) It’s just been a catalogue of disasters – the late nomination, when his party membership lapsed , the [alleged] punch-up.
  • (9) In hindsight, Hogg’s 88-page judgment is an extraordinary catalogue of missed opportunities.
  • (10) This article will illustrate the radiological aspects that are seen commonly in AIDS rather than cataloguing every conceivable X-ray abnormality that may be found.
  • (11) The shocking catalogue of abuse at a care home first exposed by a TV investigation has been laid bare in a damning report.
  • (12) Print on demand and YouTube are also providing new ways to mine the company's back catalogue.
  • (13) While the report cleared the UK intelligence services of blame for failing to prevent the killing, despite a catalogue of errors, it was highly critical of the company for failing to flag up the information.
  • (14) The catalogue of blunders produced an angry response from congressmen in both parties who questioned the competence of Pierson, who was herself brought in to clean up the elite unit after earlier scandals in which drunken officers were found passed out during a presidential trip to Amsterdam and visiting prostitutes in Colombia.
  • (15) Mick Jagger and Keith Richards have struck a deal with music publisher BMG to represent their interests in the Rolling Stones catalogue, including 1960s classics such as I Can't Get No Satisfaction and Jumpin' Jack Flash.
  • (16) As the economy has picked up, so has demand for Marshall's cushions, helped in part by getting a listing in the catalogues of notonthehighstreet.com, an online marketplace for small businesses.
  • (17) At the advent of the web, Yahoo quaintly believed it could use editors to catalogue all the content online, but quickly learned that that wouldn't scale, as we say these days.
  • (18) We reviewed our clinical and autopsy experience and the literature from the past 25 years in order to catalogue the frequency and clinical importance of additional malformations in patients with CDH.
  • (19) By 1849 gin was respectable enough to be included in the Fortnum and Mason catalogue for the first time.
  • (20) In Australia, where an estimated 54,000 of Asia-Pacific’s 21 million-plus domestic workers are based, a Salvation Army report catalogued 16-hour days without breaks, non-payment of wages and physical violence.

Handbook


Definition:

  • (n.) A book of reference, to be carried in the hand; a manual; a guidebook.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) By 1996, the party's policy handbook stated that the industry was "of vital importance to the nation's economic performance".
  • (2) The jurors' handbook for New York's southern district lists critical questions to ask potential jurors, such as whether they "have any personal interest in the case, or know of any reason why they cannot render an impartial verdict?"
  • (3) But he has proposed that the contract being negotiated identify all school employees as ministers of the church, a change gay rights groups said would put teachers who do not adhere to the beliefs in the handbook at risk of dismissal.
  • (4) If a general practitioner can remember the few drugs in clinical practice with a narrow therapeutic index, he can consult a handbook before anything else is prescribed.
  • (5) As these are now being finalized and not yet approved for release, INR can only highlight the contents of this concise, authoritative document, which should become an indispensable handbook on AIDS for nurses and other health personnel when available.
  • (6) With the death toll across Guinea , Liberia and Sierra Leone topping 5,000 this month, everything from equipment to medical trials to psychology handbooks is being tested, upgraded and refashioned.
  • (7) At 16 and 17 there are two computer game manuals – Minecraft: Redstone Handbook and Minecraft: Essential Handbook .
  • (8) It added: “A review of declarations of interest confirmed the CoG did not disclose these on the [2014] annual declaration.” In a letter dated 8 March, the government’s Education Funding Agency said there had been “serious breaches of the academies financial handbook, including serious concerns about financial management, control and governance”.
  • (9) The International Business Times, Davis and Uzac’s news site, was also described in the handbook as an “Olivet ministry affiliate”.
  • (10) The authors are aware of other phencyclidine-related hospital admissions but could find no information on phencyclidine in recently published handbooks on drug abuse.
  • (11) There are bouquets and photographs, that famous Freddie Starr front page framed on the wall, a large blond-wood desk upon which lie a guide to St Lucia, a letter from Boodles the jeweller, and a book cover, which I read upside down: Having an Affair: A Handbook for the Other Woman.
  • (12) The Danish Society for Patient Safety has produced a handbook to increase patient involvement in care, which has been distributed to one in 10 of all households in Denmark.
  • (13) I don’t mean the Oftsed inspection handbook, which anyone can download from the internet.
  • (14) It became the handbook of the anti- globalisation protests, and inspired two Radiohead albums .
  • (15) Data from the literature for solutions, blood, normal tissue, and cancerous tissue are investigated, and predicted fractions are consistent with tissue compositional information available in handbooks.
  • (16) Psychiatrists in some countries including Britain use the International Classification of Diseases (ICD) published by the World Health Organisation or a combination of both handbooks.
  • (17) "It's incredibly depressing," said Arthur Raney, a professor of communication at Florida State University and author of The Handbook of Sports and Media .
  • (18) In a shifting world where political disillusionment is the norm, Brand offers a hopeful handbook of new ways of thinking.
  • (19) "The Oncogene Handbook," Amsterdam: Elsevier, pp 307-325, 1988; Sonnenberg et al., Neuron 3:359-365, 1989).
  • (20) There appears to be some confusion over terms used in the handbook issued to medical practitioners.