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Inventory vs Classify - What's the difference?

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Inventory is a related term of classify.


As verbs the difference between inventory and classify

is that inventory is (operations) to take stock of the resources or items on hand; to produce an inventory while classify is to identify by or divide into classes; to categorize.

As a noun inventory

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

inventory

Noun

(inventories)
  • (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.
  • (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.
  • (operations) the process of producing or updating such a list
  • This month's inventory took nearly three days.
  • (lb) A space containing the available to a character for immediate use.
  • Synonyms

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    Verb

    (en-verb)
  • (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

    * (take stock) index

    classify

    English

    Verb

    (en-verb)
  • to identify by or divide into classes; to categorize
  • to declare something a secret, especially a government secret
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    Antonyms

    * (to declare a secret) declassify

    See also

    * arrange * distribute * rank