different between roster vs inventory

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Dutch rooster (“gridiron, table, list”), from Middle Dutch roosten (“to roast”). More at roast.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /???st?/
• (US) IPA^(key): /???st?/, /???st?/
• Rhymes: -?st?(?)

Noun

roster (plural rosters)

1. A list of individuals or groups, usually for an organization of some kind such as military officers and enlisted personnel enrolled in a particular unit; a muster roll; a sports team, with the names of players who are eligible to be placed in the lineup for a particular game; or a list of students officially enrolled in a school or class.
   • 2013, William Brinkley, The Last Ship (Penguin, ?ISBN), page 132:

     [So many of] the crew, men and officers alike, read them as to make me feel safe in asserting unreservedly that the Nathan James numbered in her company more Turgenev scholars than any other vessel on the United States Navy's entire roster of ships.

2. A list of the jobs to be done by members of an organization and often with the date/time that they are expected to do them.

Translations

See also

• rota

Verb

roster (third-person singular simple present rosters, present participle rostering, simple past and past participle rostered)

1. To place the name of (a person) on a roster.

Translations

References

• Trains: Railroad locomotive rosters

Anagrams

• Storer, Torres, re-sort, resort, retros, sorter, storer

Middle English

Alternative forms

• roostare

Etymology

From rosten +? -er.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?r??st?r(?)/

Noun

roster

1. (rare, Late Middle English) A roaster (a person who roasts).

Descendants

• English: roaster

References

• “r?ster(e, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-08-09.

Spanish

Noun

roster m (plural rosters or roster)

1. (baseball) roster

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.