Associations to the word «Item»

Wiktionary

ITEM, noun. A distinct physical object.
ITEM, noun. A line of text having a legal or other meaning; a separate particular in an account.
ITEM, noun. (psychometrics) A question on a test, which may include its answers.
ITEM, noun. A matter for discussion in an agenda.
ITEM, noun. (informal) Two people who are having a relationship with each other.
ITEM, noun. A short article in a newspaper.
ITEM, noun. (obsolete) A hint; an innuendo.
ITEM OF CLOTHING, noun. A garment.
ITEM SET, noun. (computer science) (parsers) A set of production rules which have an identical sequence of symbols between the right arrow (→) and the dot (•).

Dictionary definition

ITEM, noun. A distinct part that can be specified separately in a group of things that could be enumerated on a list; "he noticed an item in the New York Times"; "she had several items on her shopping list"; "the main point on the agenda was taken up first".
ITEM, noun. A small part that can be considered separately from the whole; "it was perfect in all details".
ITEM, noun. A whole individual unit; especially when included in a list or collection; "they reduced the price on many items".
ITEM, noun. An isolated fact that is considered separately from the whole; "several of the details are similar"; "a point of information".
ITEM, noun. An individual instance of a type of symbol; "the word`error' contains three tokens of `r'".
ITEM, adverb. (used when listing or enumerating items) also; "a length of chain, item a hook"-Philip Guedalla.

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats