card catalog vs file cabinet

card catalog and file cabinet both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
card catalog	Yes	No	No	No
file cabinet	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, file cabinet is a hypernym of card catalog; that is, file cabinet is a word with a broader meaning than card catalog:

card catalog: an alphabetical listing of items (e.g., books in a library) with a separate card for each item
file cabinet: office furniture consisting of a container for keeping papers in order

Other hypernyms of card catalog include file, filing cabinet.

card catalog (noun)	file cabinet (noun)
an alphabetical listing of items (e.g., books in a library) with a separate card for each item	office furniture consisting of a container for keeping papers in order
a library catalog in which each publication is described on a separate file card