different between inventory vs catalogue

English

Etymology

From Middle English inventorie, from Old French inventoire (whence French inventaire), from Late Latin inventarium, from Latin invenire (“to find out”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /??n.v?n.t?i/, /?n?v?n.t?.?i/
• (US) IPA^(key): /??n.v?n?t?.?i/

Noun

inventory (plural inventories)

1. (operations) The stock of an item on hand at a particular location or business.

   Due to an undersized inventory at the Boston outlet, customers had to travel to Providence to find the item.

2. (operations) A detailed list of all of the items on hand.

   The inventory included several items that one wouldn't normally think to find at a cheese shop.

3. (operations) The process of producing or updating such a list.

   This month's inventory took nearly three days.

4. (role-playing games) A space containing the items available to a character for immediate use.

   You can't get through the underground tunnel if there are more than three items in your inventory.

5. (linguistics, especially phonology) The total set of a (specified) linguistic feature (within a language etc.)

   Germanic languages have a marked tendency towards large vocalic inventories.

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:list

Related terms

• invent
• invented
• inventive
• invention
• inventor
• reinvent

Translations

Verb

inventory (third-person singular simple present inventories, present participle inventorying, simple past and past participle inventoried)

1. (transitive, operations) To take stock of the resources or items on hand; to produce an inventory.

   The main job of the night shift was to inventory the store, and restock when necessary.

Synonyms

• index
• inventorize
• take inventory
• take stock

Translations

Further reading

• inventory in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• inventory in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

English

Alternative forms

• catalog (American)

Etymology

From Middle English cathaloge, from Old French catalogue, from Late Latin catalogus, itself from Ancient Greek ????????? (katálogos, “enrollment, register”), from ???????? (katalég?, “to recount, make a list”), from ????- (kata-, “downwards, towards”) + ???? (lég?, “to say, to speak, to tell”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?kæt.??l??/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?kæ?.??l??/
• (US, cot–caught merger, Canada) IPA^(key): /?kæ?.??l??/

Noun

catalogue (plural catalogues)

1. A systematic list of names, books, pictures etc.
   • 1999, J. G. Baker, Flora of Mauritius and the Seychelles

     He intended to publish a flora of the island, and drafted out a synonymic catalogue, into which he inserted from time to time elaborate descriptions drawn up from living specimens of the species which he was able to procure.
2. A complete (usually alphabetical) list of items.
3. A list of all the publications in a library.
4. A retailer's magazine detailing the products they sell, allowing the reader to order them for delivery.
5. (US) A book printed periodically by a college, university, or other institution that gives a definitive description of the institution, its history, courses and degrees offered, etc.
6. (computing, dated) A directory listing.
   • 1983, Helpline (in Sinclair User issue 21)

     The program generates a catalogue of the files on the cartridge selected by the user, reads the catalogue into memory and erases the cartridge copy, so that an up-to-date copy is always generated.

   • 2001, "Michael Foot", BeebIt 0.32 and BBCFiles 0.29 released (on newsgroup comp.sys.acorn.announce)

     BBCFiles is a BBC file converter that converts between some of the various types of files used by BBC emulators on Acorn & PC formats. It supports 6502Em style applications & scripts, /ssd dfs disc images (supporting watford double catalogue), vanilla directories, /zip of bbc files with /inf files (with limitations) and directory of bbc files with /inf files.

   • 2003, "Brotha G", Repairing Microdrive Cartridges (on newsgroup comp.sys.sinclair)

     It has two extra options using extended syntax. CAT - an extended catalogue but not as detailed as some I've seen. ( The reason that the Spectrum CAT command is restricted is that it cleverly uses the 512 bytes data buffer of the microdrive channel to sort the filenames - hence the limit of 50 ten-character filenames )

7. (music) A complete list of a recording artist's or a composer's songs.

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:list

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

catalogue (third-person singular simple present catalogues, present participle cataloguing, simple past and past participle catalogued)

1. To put into a catalogue.
2. To make a catalogue of.
3. To add items (e.g. books) to an existing catalogue.

Synonyms

• (make a catalogue of): list; see also Thesaurus:tick off
• (add to an existing catalogue): put down; see also Thesaurus:enlist

Derived terms

Translations

Anagrams

• coagulate

French

Etymology

From Late Latin catalogus, itself from Ancient Greek ????????? (katálogos, “an enrollment, a register, a list, catalogue”), from ???????? (katalég?, “to recount, to tell at length or in order, to make a list”), from ????- (kata-, “downwards, towards”) + ???? (lég?, “to gather, to pick up, to choose for oneself, to pick out, to count”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ka.ta.l??/
• Homophone: catalogues

Noun

catalogue m (plural catalogues)

1. A systematical catalogue

Verb

catalogue

1. inflection of cataloguer:
   1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
   2. second-person singular imperative

Further reading

• “catalogue” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Portuguese

Verb

catalogue

1. first-person singular (eu) present subjunctive of catalogar
2. third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) present subjunctive of catalogar
3. third-person singular (você) affirmative imperative of catalogar
4. third-person singular (você) negative imperative of catalogar

Spanish

Verb

catalogue

1. Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of catalogar.
2. First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of catalogar.
3. Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of catalogar.
4. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present subjunctive form of catalogar.