What's the difference between equipment and inventory?

Equipment


Definition:

  • (n.) The act of equipping, or the state of being equipped, as for a voyage or expedition.
  • (n.) Whatever is used in equipping; necessaries for an expedition or voyage; the collective designation for the articles comprising an outfit; equipage; as, a railroad equipment (locomotives, cars, etc. ; for carrying on business); horse equipments; infantry equipments; naval equipments; laboratory equipments.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In choosing between various scanning techniques the factors to be considered include availability, cost, the type of equipment, the expertise of the medical and technical staff, and the inherent capabilities of the system.
  • (2) Finally the advanced automation of the equipment allowed weekly the evaluation of catecholamines and the whole range of their known metabolites in 36 urine samples.
  • (3) The manufacturers, British Aerospace describe it as a "single-seat, radar equipped, lightweight, multi-role combat aircraft, providing comprehensive air defence and ground attack capability".
  • (4) This suggests that the latter group does not possess the genetic equipment (Ir genes) to recognize the antigenic determinants and to synthesize the corresponding antibodies.
  • (5) Their disadvantages - the expensive equipment and the time-consuming procedure respectively - limit their widespread use.
  • (6) The importance of proper disinfection of such equipment cannot be overemphasized.
  • (7) Of great influence on the results of measurements are preparation and registration (warm-up-time, amplification, closeness of pressure-system, unhurt catheters), factors relating to equipment and methods (air-bubbles in pressure-system, damping by filters, continuous infusion of the micro-catheter, level of zero-pressure), factors which occur during intravital measurement (pressure-drop along the arteria pulmonalis, influence of normal breathing, great intrapleural pressure changes, pressure damping in the catheter by thrombosis and external disturbances) and last not least positive and negative acceleration forces, which influence the diastolic and systolic pulmonary artery pressure.
  • (8) The indication of the DNA probe method would be considered in the four cases as follows, 1. necessity of the special equipment to isolate the pathogen, 2. necessity of the long period to isolate the pathogen, 3. existence of the cross reaction among the pathogen and relative organisms in the immunological procedure, 4. existence of the difficulty to identify the species of the pathogen by the ordinary procedure.
  • (9) Even though there are variations among equipment bearing the same model number it was considered worthwhile to make available relative cavitational and temperature data.
  • (10) The American Red Cross said the aid organisation had already run out of medical supplies, with spokesman Eric Porterfield explaining that the small amount of medical equipment and medical supplies available in Haiti had been distributed.
  • (11) The first part of this survey which dealt with equipment for the anterior segment was published in a previous issue of this journal.
  • (12) When allegations of systemic doping and cover-ups first emerged in the runup to the 2013 Russian world athletics championships, an IOC spokesman insisted: “Anti-doping measures in Russia have improved significantly over the last five years with an effective, efficient and new laboratory and equipment in Moscow.” London Olympics were sabotaged by Russia’s doping, report says Read more We now know that the head of that lauded Moscow lab, Grigory Rodchenko, admitted to intentionally destroying 1,417 samples in December last year shortly before Wada officials visited.
  • (13) It is anomalous that the world is equipped with global funds to finance action on infectious diseases and climate change, but not humanitarian crises.
  • (14) A simple technique is described for producing enhanced radiographs of excised breast specimens with clinical mammographic equipment.
  • (15) Drones and helicopter strikes are not equipped with political night-vision.
  • (16) In addition to the threat of industrial espionage to sustain this position, there is an inherent risk of Chinese equipment being used for intelligence purposes.
  • (17) A planned, induced labor with regional anesthesia and continuous invasive monitoring in a well-equipped medical center provides the safest setting for delivery.
  • (18) By sharing insights and best practice expertise through [the Electrical and Electronic Equipment Sustainability Action Plan] esap and other platforms, Wrap believes business models such as trade-in services will be a reality in the next three to five years.” The actions of the 51 signatories to esap include: implementing new business models such as take-back and resale; extending product durability; and gaining greater value from reuse and recycling.
  • (19) They were granted “extraordinary leave” and left with their military equipment to be captured or killed on the streets of the Chechen capital.
  • (20) At the same time optical and mechanical systems of the Soviet-made sigmoidoscope, model CBO-1, an apparatus equipped with fibrous optical elements for transmission of ligh and image, now in batch production, are described.

Inventory


Definition:

  • (n.) 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.
  • (v. t.) 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.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) A review is made from literature and an inventory of psychological and organic factors implicated in this pathology.
  • (2) The purposes of this study were to assess the career development needs of entering medical students as measured by the Medical Career Development Inventory and to examine gender differences in responses to the inventory.
  • (3) Limitations include the facts that the tracer inventory requires a minimal survival period, can only be done postmortem, and has low resolution for cuts of the vagal hepatic branch.
  • (4) The department of dietetics at a large teaching hospital has substantially reduced its food and labor costs through use of computerized systems that ensure efficient inventory management, recipe standardization, ingredient control, quantity and quality control, and identification of productive man-hours and appropriate staffing levels.
  • (5) Several recommendations, based upon the results of this survey study, the existing literature relevant to the ethical responsibilities of investigators who conduct research with children, and our own experiences with these instruments and populations, are made to assist researchers in their attempts to use these inventories in an ethical manner.
  • (6) Results indicate that great care should be taken in interpreting scores on depression inventories in patients with Parkinson's disease.
  • (7) The present investigation examines the assortative mating coefficients for scales of the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI) from five separate studies.
  • (8) Psychologic depression as measured by the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI) in a cohort of 2018 middle-aged men employed at the Western Electric Company in 1957-1958 was positively associated with 20-year incidence and mortality from cancer.
  • (9) In 1984 the press-fit condylar knee was first introduced and was intended to provide a condylar knee system primarily for posterior cruciate retention that addressed refinements in metallurgy, prosthetic geometry and sizing, cementless fixation, inventory management, and instrumentation.
  • (10) The students completed four scales from the Life Values Inventory: (i.e.
  • (11) The three counties sampled showed surprisingly little deviation in the percentages of inventories suggesting alcohol production and in the preferences for specific types of drinks.
  • (12) For any blood type, there is a complex interaction among the optimal inventory level, daily demand level, the transfusion to crossmatch ratio, the crossmatch release period and the age of arriving units that determine the shortage and outdate rate.
  • (13) The State-Trait Anxiety Inventory questionnaire, recently validated in Spanish, was used to measure the students' anxiety associated with the examinations.
  • (14) The Side Effects Profile (SEP) and Spielberger's State-Trait Anxiety Inventory (STAI) were used to collect data.
  • (15) The clinical validity of these PIC-R subscales was also compared to that of the Minnesota Child Development Inventory (MCDI).
  • (16) In addition to better understanding why adolescents begin using marihuana, the inventory is intended to assist drug educators target their programs.
  • (17) 24 hospitalized borderline patients were administered an Attachment Style Inventory and Millon Clinical Multiaxial Inventory.
  • (18) Several motor, perceptual and attention tasks and the Washington Psychosocial Seizure Inventory were performed before and after STP administration.
  • (19) In a retrospective study of 50 consecutive dementia patients, the DAT Inventory correctly identified 100% of DAT subjects and 94% of non-DAT cases.
  • (20) The inventory consists of 11 narrow-band and two broad-band scales, the Behavioral and the Cognitive.