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/ˈaɪtəm/ Listen

noun

item n.

An article; a separate particular in an account; as, the items in a bill; he picked up four items at the drug store.

A hint; an innuendo. (Obs.) "A secret item was given to some of the bishops... to absent themselves."

A short article in a newspaper; a paragraph; as, an item concerning the weather.

A topic or piece of information having the salacious character of gossip, especially a romantic relation between two people; as, I hear that the boss and his new secretary are an item.

adverb

item adv. Also; as an additional article.

verb

Item v. t. (past & past part. itemed; pres. part. iteming) To make a note or memorandum of. "I have itemed it in my memory."

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Etymology of 'Item'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Item" Quotes from Famous Books

... indicates the long, closed [o:], is corrected as other errors by placing the corrected version of the item ...

— Diego Collado's Grammar of the Japanese Language • Diego Collado

... interstellar—jewel thief! It makes me feel like the Queen of Something—certainly not Serene, since it implies calmness and repose, which I certainly don't feel—no offense to our Miss Sands, whom I admire enormously. In a very small way I am repaying to you in kind—an item which I made, myself, and which I know that some spacemen use inside their Archers. You see, we are all informed in details. Paul, Otto, Chippie Potter and his dog, and other characters whom you won't remember, send their best greetings. Oh, I've got Stardust ...

— The Planet Strappers • Raymond Zinke Gallun

... demand is possible: but for one item—one dreadful item. It is—that he asks me to be his wife, and has no more of a husband's heart for me than that frowning giant of a rock, down which the stream is foaming in yonder gorge. He prizes me as a soldier would ...

— Jane Eyre - an Autobiography • Charlotte Bronte

... I have inserted in this formula one item of information that pertains to use, not location. For of those who know of the existence and location of the Public Library there are many whose ideas of its contents and their uses, and of the conditions and value of such uses, are limited and ...

— A Librarian's Open Shelf • Arthur E. Bostwick

... chess progress, since the game became a recognized item of public recreationary intelligence, and the time of the pioneer International Chess Tournament of all nations, London 1851, the event may be deemed of some import and significance, as evidence of the vastly increased popularity ...

— Chess History and Reminiscences • H. E. Bird

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