Inventory vs. Stocks — What's the Difference?

Inventory (American English) or stock (British English) refers to the goods and materials that a business holds for the ultimate goal of resale, production or utilisation.Inventory management is a discipline primarily about specifying the shape and placement of stocked goods. It is required at different locations within a facility or within many locations of a supply network to precede the regular and planned course of production and stock of materials.

Stocks are feet restraining devices that were used as a form of corporal punishment and public humiliation.

A detailed, itemized list, report, or record of things in one's possession, especially a periodic survey of all goods and materials in stock.

A supply accumulated for future use; a store.

The process of making such a list, report, or record.

The total merchandise kept on hand by a merchant, commercial establishment, warehouse, or manufacturer.

The items listed in such a report or record.

All the animals kept or raised on a farm; livestock.

The quantity of goods and materials on hand; stock.

All the aquatic animals kept or raised in an aquaculture operation.

An evaluation or a survey, as of abilities, assets, or resources.

A population of wild animals, especially of a species that is also farmed

To make an itemized report or record of.

A kind of financial security granting rights of ownership in a corporation, such as a claim to a portion of the assets and earnings of the corporation and the right to vote for the board of directors. Stock is issued and traded in units called shares.

To include in an itemized report or record.

The stock issued by a particular company

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

Chiefly British The money invested in a corporation, including debt and equity.

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

Chiefly British A bond, especially a government bond.

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

The trunk or main stem of a tree or another plant.

A space containing the items available to a character, especially that in a video game, for immediate use.

A plant or stem onto which a graft is made.

The total set of a specified linguistic feature within a language etc.

A plant or tree from which cuttings and slips are taken.

To take stock of the resources or items on hand; to produce an inventory.

The original progenitor of a family line.

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.

The descendants of a common ancestor; a family line, especially of a specified character

The objects contained on an inventory{1};

Ancestry or lineage; antecedents.

The total value of all goods in an inventory{2}.

The type from which a group of animals or plants has descended.

The act of making an inventory{1}.

A race, family, or other related group of animals or plants.

To make an inventory of; to make a list, catalogue, or schedule of; to insert or register in an account of goods; as, a merchant inventories his stock.

An ethnic group or other major division of the human race.

A detailed list of all the items in stock

A group of related languages.

The merchandise that a shop has on hand;

A group of related families of languages.

(accounting) the value of a firm's current assets including raw materials and work in progress and finished goods

The raw material out of which something is made.

A collection of resources;

Paper used for printing.

Making an itemized list of merchandise or supplies on hand;

The broth in which meat, fish, bones, or vegetables are simmered for a relatively long period, used as a base in preparing soup, gravy, or sauces.

Make or include in an itemized record or report;

A main upright part, especially a supporting structure or block.

Stocks(Nautical) The timber frame that supports a ship during construction.

Often stocks A frame in which a horse or other animal is held for shoeing or for veterinary treatment.

Stocks A device consisting of a heavy timber frame with holes for confining the ankles and sometimes the wrists, formerly used for punishment.

(Nautical) A crosspiece at the end of the shank of an anchor.

The wooden block from which a bell is suspended.

The rear wooden, metal, or plastic handle or support of a rifle, pistol, or automatic weapon, to which the barrel and mechanism are attached.

The long supporting structure and mooring beam of field-gun carriages that trails along the ground to provide stability and support.

A handle, such as that of a whip, a fishing rod, or various carpentry tools.

The frame of a plow, to which the share, handles, coulter, and other parts are fastened.

A theatrical stock company.

The repertoire of such a company.

A theater or theatrical activity, especially outside of a main theatrical center

(Botany) Any of several Eurasian and Mediterranean plants of the genus Matthiola in the mustard family, especially M. incana, widely cultivated for its clusters of showy, fragrant, variously colored flowers.

(Games) The portion of a pack of cards or of a group of dominoes that is not dealt out but is drawn from during a game.

(Geology) A body of intrusive igneous rock of which less than 100 square kilometers (40 square miles) is exposed.

(Zoology) A compound organism, such as a colony of zooids.

Personal reputation or status

Confidence or credence

A long white neckcloth worn as part of a formal riding habit.

A broad scarf worn around the neck, especially by certain clerics.

Rolling stock.

To supply (a shop) with merchandise.

To supply (a farm) with livestock.

To fill (a stream, for example) with fish.

To keep for future sale or use.

To provide (a rifle, for example) with a stock.

(Obsolete) To put (someone) in the stocks as a punishment.

To gather and lay in a supply of something

To put forth or sprout new shoots. Used of a plant.

Kept regularly in stock

Repeated regularly without any thought or originality; routine

Employed in dealing with or caring for stock or merchandise

Of or relating to the raising of livestock

Used for breeding

Of or relating to a stock company or its repertoire.

Of or being a conventional character or situation that recurs in many literary or cinematic works.

Plural of stock

(plurale tantum) A device, similar to a pillory, formerly used for public humiliation and punishment.

The frame upon which a ship is built, and from which it is launched.

A wooden instrument of punishment on a post with holes for the neck and hands; offenders were locked in and so exposed to public scorn