inventory
NOUN · English
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The corpus records 5 senses of inventory. Each sense below has its own Add to list, so you choose the one you mean.
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Experimental coverage — measured below Partial on the number of recorded words, definitions, translations, word forms and pronunciation. Treat entries as evidence to check; meanings may be incomplete.
English is Experimental in Words. Support is measured, not declared: a language reaches Partial only when every measure meets its threshold, and a measure that has not been taken does not count. The development corpus holds 60 source-backed words in English. What is shown may be incomplete, and pronunciation audio, generated forms and generated examples are not offered.
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Definition: The stock of an item on hand at a particular location or business. From a source of medium confidence.
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- Due to an undersized inventory at the Boston outlet, customers had to travel to Providence to find the item. Usage example — not an attested quotation.
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Definition: A detailed list of all of the items on hand. From a source of medium confidence.
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- The inventory included several items that one wouldn't normally think to find at a cheese shop. Usage example — not an attested quotation.
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Definition: The process of producing or updating such a list. From a source of medium confidence.
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- This month's inventory took nearly three days. Usage example — not an attested quotation.
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Definition: A space containing the items available to a character, especially in a video game, for immediate use. From a source of medium confidence.
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- You can't get through the underground tunnel if there are more than three items in your inventory. Usage example — not an attested quotation.
- From the inventory tab you have the option to use the mobile phone or check out gadgets you have collected. 2008, “PDA”, in Cory in the House: Instruction Booklet, Burbank, California: Disney Interactive Studios; Nintendo, page 11:
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Definition: The total set of a (specified) linguistic feature (within a language etc.) From a source of medium confidence.
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- Germanic languages have a marked tendency towards large vocalic inventories. Usage example — not an attested quotation.
- Most final consonants have been lost, resulting in a tonal language with a rich consonantal and vocalic inventory, but with a relatively simple syllabic structure.. 2014, Guillaume Jacques, “V: Cone”, in Jackson Sun, editor, Phonological Profiles of Little-Studied Tibetic Varieties, Taipei: Academia Sinica, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 270:
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Etymology: From Middle English inventorie, from Medieval Latin inventōrium, alteration of Late Latin inventārium, from Latin inveniō (“to find out”). From a source of medium confidence.
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