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Item   /ˈaɪtəm/   Listen
Item

noun
1.
A distinct part that can be specified separately in a group of things that could be enumerated on a list.  Synonym: point.  "She had several items on her shopping list" , "The main point on the agenda was taken up first"
2.
A small part that can be considered separately from the whole.  Synonyms: detail, particular.
3.
A whole individual unit; especially when included in a list or collection.
4.
An isolated fact that is considered separately from the whole.  Synonyms: detail, point.  "A point of information"
5.
An individual instance of a type of symbol.  Synonym: token.
adverb
1.
(used when listing or enumerating items) also.



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"Item" Quotes from Famous Books



... small polished table on the left side of the room in front of the rows of chairs. On it Mavis Greenfield had placed a number of enigmatic articles, some of which would be employed as props in one manner or another during the evening's work. The most prominent item was a small suitcase in red alligator hide. Dr. Ormond, however, passed up the suitcase, took a small flat wooden plate from the table and returned to the ...
— Ham Sandwich • James H. Schmitz
... remembered, nobody left out in the cold. Then, with nice lump sums of increasing magnitude, came a baker's dozen of Barradine nephews, nieces, and second cousins; the Abbey domain was to go to an elderly first cousin; and then, after bequests to various charities, came the grand item that the local solicitor had in his mind when he foretold a salvo ...
— The Devil's Garden • W. B. Maxwell
... information. I've known THAT for a week.' I was too astonished to speak, and Henry, he chuckled. 'To see you coming in here,' says he, 'with your face as solemn as a tombstone and sitting down there with your hands clasped over your stomach, and passing me out a blue-mouldy old item of news like that! It'd make a cat laugh, Jim Boyd,' says he. 'Who told you?' says I, stupid like. 'Nobody,' says he. 'A week ago Tuesday night I was lying here awake—and I jest knew. I'd suspicioned it before, but then I KNEW. I've been keeping up for ...
— Anne's House of Dreams • Lucy Maud Montgomery
... of a set of notes on yellow legal cap paper. But the master current was flowing elsewhere. In the offices of the Evening Sun, the stereotypers had just shot the front page of the Wall Street edition down to the clanking basement. It carried a "beat"; and that item of news had as much to do with this story as with the ultimate destinies of the L.D. and M. railroad. On October 19, two weeks hence, the directors of the road were to meet and decide whether to pay or pass ...
— The House of Mystery • William Henry Irwin
... the long, closed [o:], is corrected as other errors by placing the corrected version of the item in ...
— Diego Collado's Grammar of the Japanese Language • Diego Collado


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