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INVENTORY

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Making an itemized list of merchandise or supplies on hand

Example:

they held an inventory every month

Synonyms:

inventory; inventorying; stock-taking; stocktaking

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("inventory" is a kind of...):

itemisation; itemization; listing (the act of making a list of items)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "inventory"):

stock-take; stocktake (an instance of stocktaking)

Sense 2

Meaning:

The merchandise that a shop has on hand

Example:

they stopped selling in exact sizes in order to reduce inventory

Synonyms:

inventory; stock

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("inventory" is a kind of...):

merchandise; product; ware (commodities offered for sale)

Sense 3

Meaning:

A collection of resources

Example:

he dipped into his intellectual armory to find an answer

Synonyms:

armory; armoury; inventory

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Hypernyms ("inventory" is a kind of...):

imagination; resource; resourcefulness (the ability to deal resourcefully with unusual problems)

Sense 4

Meaning:

A detailed list of all the items in stock

Synonyms:

inventory; stock list

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("inventory" is a kind of...):

list; listing (a database containing an ordered array of items (names or topics))

Meronyms (parts of "inventory"):

inventory item (an item listed in an inventory)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "inventory"):

parts inventory (an inventory of replacement parts)

Sense 5

Meaning:

(accounting) the value of a firm's current assets including raw materials and work in progress and finished goods

Classified under:

Nouns denoting possession and transfer of possession

Hypernyms ("inventory" is a kind of...):

register (a book in which names and transactions are listed)

Domain category:

accounting (a system that provides quantitative information about finances)

 II. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Make or include in an itemized record or report

Example:

Inventory all books before the end of the year

Synonyms:

inventory; stock-take; take stock

Classified under:

Verbs of political and social activities and events

Hypernyms (to "inventory" is one way to...):

list (include in a list)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Derivation:

inventorying (making an itemized list of merchandise or supplies on hand)

Credits

 Context examples: 

Test codes of questionnaire questions associated with the short-form brief pain inventory for the Clinical Data Interchange Standards Consortium (CDISC) Standard Data Tabulation Model (SDTM).

(CDISC Questionnaire BPI Short Form Test Code Terminology, NCI Thesaurus)

Test names of questionnaire questions associated with the neuropsychiatric inventory (NPI) for the Clinical Data Interchange Standards Consortium (CDISC) Standard Data Tabulation Model (SDTM).

(CDISC Questionnaire NPI Test Name Terminology, NCI Thesaurus)

Test codes of questionnaire questions associated with the neuropsychiatric inventory (NPI) for the Clinical Data Interchange Standards Consortium (CDISC) Standard Data Tabulation Model (SDTM).

(CDISC Questionnaire NPI Test Code Terminology, NCI Thesaurus)

Test names of questionnaire questions associated with the brief pain inventory (BPI) for the Clinical Data Interchange Standards Consortium (CDISC) Standard Data Tabulation Model (SDTM).

(CDISC Questionnaire BPI Test Name Terminology, NCI Thesaurus)

The Pharmaceutical Research Shared Resource provides support to Cancer Center investigators involved in clinical research related to anticancer therapy with maintaining drug accountability records and investigational drug inventories according to FDA guidelines.

(Pharmaceutical Research Shared Resource, NCI Thesaurus)

A well-validated, self-report inventory for the assessment of body image.

(Multidimensional Body-Self Relations Questionnaire Appearance Orientation, NCI Thesaurus)

By inventorying the contents of GJ 3470 b's atmosphere, astronomers are able to uncover clues about the planet's nature and origin.

(Atmosphere of Midsize Planet Revealed by Hubble, Spitzer, NASA)

I presume that you made an inventory of what he had in his pockets at the time of his death, Inspector?

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

This is an exact inventory of what we found about the body of the man-mountain, who used us with great civility, and due respect to your majesty’s commission.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

They inventoried the required resources, then determined the economic and environmental effects of using those resources — defined in terms of energy available and expended, and normalized to cost in U.S. dollars.

(Corn better used as food than biofuel, National Science Foundation)