card catalog vs filing cabinet

card catalog and filing cabinet both are nouns.

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

As nouns, filing cabinet is a hypernym of card catalog; that is, filing 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
filing cabinet: office furniture consisting of a container for keeping papers in order

Other hypernyms of card catalog include file, file cabinet.

card catalog (noun)	filing 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