Word Meanings - INVENTORY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

An account, catalogue, or schedule, made by an executor or administrator, of all the goods and chattels, and sometimes of the real estate, of a deceased person; a list of the property of which a person or estate is found to be possessed; hence,

Additional info about word: INVENTORY

An account, catalogue, or schedule, made by an executor or administrator, of all the goods and chattels, and sometimes of the real estate, of a deceased person; a list of the property of which a person or estate is found to be possessed; hence, an itemized list of goods or valuables, with their estimated worth; specifically, the annual account of stock taken in any business. There take an inventory of all I have. Shak. Syn. -- List; register; schedule; catalogue. See List.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of INVENTORY)

• Record
• Registry
• entry
• enrolment
• list
• index
• catalogue
• register
• schedule
• roll
• scroll
• enumeration
• inventory
• muniment
• instrument
• archive
• memorandum
• remembrance

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of INVENTORY)

• Obliviate
• silentiate
• suppress

Related words: (words related to INVENTORY)

• INDEXICAL
  Of, pertaining to, or like, an index; having the form of an index.
• INSTRUMENTAL
  Pertaining to, made by, or prepared for, an instrument, esp. a musical instrument; as, instrumental music, distinguished from vocal music. "He defended the use of instrumental music in public worship." Macaulay. Sweet voices mix'd with instrumental
• SUPPRESSOR
  One who suppresses.
• REGISTERING
  Recording; -- applied to instruments; having an apparatus which registers; as, a registering thermometer. See Recording.
• SCROLLED
  Formed like a scroll; contained in a scroll; adorned with scrolls; as, scrolled work.
• INSTRUMENTALITY
  The quality or condition of being instrumental; that which is instrumental; anything used as a means; medium; agency. The instrumentality of faith in justification. Bp. Burnet. The discovery of gunpowder developed the science of attack and defense
• RECORDATION
  Remembrance; recollection; also, a record. Shak.
• REGISTERSHIP
  The office of a register.
• INSTRUMENTATION
  1. The act of using or adapting as an instrument; a series or combination of instruments; means; agency. Otherwise we have no sufficient instrumentation for our human use or handling of so great a fact. H. Bushnell. The arrangement of a musical
• INDEXICALLY
  In the manner of an index.
• RECORDER
  A kind of wind instrument resembling the flageolet. "Flutes and soft recorders." Milton. (more info) 1. One who records; specifically, a person whose official duty it is to make a record of writings or transactions. 2. The title of the
• SUPPRESSION
  Complete stoppage of a natural secretion or excretion; as, suppression of urine; -- used in contradiction to retention, which signifies that the secretion or excretion is retained without expulsion. Quain. (more info) 1. The act of suppressing,
• INSTRUMENTALLY
  1. By means of an instrument or agency; as means to an end. South. They will argue that the end being essentially beneficial, the means become instrumentally so. Burke. 2. With instruments of music; as, a song instrumentally accompanied. Mason.
• INSTRUMENT
  A writing, as the means of giving formal expression to some act; a writing expressive of some act, contract, process, as a deed, contract, writ, etc. Burrill. 4. One who, or that which, is made a means, or is caused to serve a purpose; a medium,
• RECORDERSHIP
  The office of a recorder.
• CATALOGUER
  A maker of catalogues; esp. one skilled in the making of catalogues.
• SCHEDULE
  A written or printed scroll or sheet of paper; a document; especially, a formal list or inventory; a list or catalogue annexed to a larger document, as to a will, a lease, a statute, etc. Syn. -- Catalogue; list; inventory. see List. (more info)
• RECORD
  1. A writing by which same act or event, or a number of acts or events, is recorded; a register; as, a record of the acts of the Hebrew kings; a record of the variations of temperature during a certain time; a family record. 2. Especially:
• RECORDING
  Keeping a record or a register; as, a recording secretary; -- applied to numerous instruments with an automatic appliance which makes a record of their action; as, a recording gauge or telegraph.
• SUPPRESSIVE
  Tending to suppress; subduing; concealing.
• CENTRY
  See GRAY
• GENTRY
  gentrise, and OF. gentelise, genterise, E. gentilesse, also OE. 1. Birth; condition; rank by birth. "Pride of gentrie." Chaucer. She conquers him by high almighty Jove, By knighthood, gentry, and sweet friendship's oath. Shak. 2. People
• SERPENTRY
  1. A winding like a serpent's. 2. A place inhabited or infested by serpents.
• INSUPPRESSIBLE
  That can not be suppressed or concealed; irrepressible. Young. -- In`sup*press"i*bly, adv.
• UNREMEMBRANCE
  Want of remembrance; forgetfulness. I. Watts.
• ARGENTRY
  Silver plate or vessels. Bowls of frosted argentry. Howell.
• INSUPPRESSIVE
  Insuppressible. "The insuppressive mettle of our spirits." Shak.
• CASH REGISTER
  A device for recording the amount of cash received, usually having an automatic adding machine and a money drawer and exhibiting the amount of the sale.
• PRECORDIAL
  Situated in front of the heart; of or pertaining to the præcordia.
• OUTSENTRY
  A sentry who guards the entrance or approach to a place; an outguard.
• STUDENTRY
  A body of students.
• SUBINDEX
  A number or mark placed opposite the lower part of a letter or symbol to distinguish the symbol; thus, a0, b1, c2, xn, have 0, 1, 2, and n as subindices.