Confine vs Inventory - What's the difference?
confine | inventory |
To restrict; to keep within bounds; to shut or keep in a limited space or area.
* Shakespeare
* Dryden
To have a common boundary; to border; to lie contiguous; to touch; followed by on'' or ''with .
* Milton
* Dryden
(operations) The stock of an item on hand at a particular location or business
(operations) a detailed list of all of the items on hand
(operations) the process of producing or updating such a list
(lb) A space containing the available to a character for immediate use.
(operations) To take stock of the resources or items on hand; to produce an inventory.
As an adjective confine
is stale.As a noun inventory is
(operations) the stock of an item on hand at a particular location or business.As a verb inventory is
(operations) to take stock of the resources or items on hand; to produce an inventory.confine
English
Verb
(confin)- Now let not nature's hand / Keep the wild flood confined ! let order die!
- He is to confine himself to the compass of numbers and the slavery of rhyme.
- Where your gloomy bounds / Confine with heaven
- Betwixt heaven and earth and skies there stands a place / Confining on all three.
Synonyms
* (limit) border, bound, limit English heteronyms ----inventory
English
(wikipedia inventory)Noun
(inventories)- Due to an undersized inventory at the Boston outlet, customers had to travel to Providence to find the item.
- The inventory included several items that one wouldn't normally think to find at a cheese shop.
- This month's inventory took nearly three days.
Synonyms
* See alsoVerb
(en-verb)- The main job of the night shift was to inventory the store, and restock when necessary.
