item

UK/ˈaɪ.təm/US/ˈaɪ.təm/

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Other forms: items

An item is one thing on a list or in a collection. Item four, a news item, every item on the list.

The word is Latin for likewise, and it got its meaning from old lists where each new entry began with it — so the marker became the name for the thing marked. An item is also two people in a relationship, in informal speech.

Definitions of item

1nounitemOne thing on a list or in a collection.A2+
“The first item on the shopping list is milk.”

item is a thing on a list.

Where it comes from

Latin item means also or likewise. Old lists began each entry with the word, so the marker became the name for the entry.

Middle English
item
English, today
item

From Middle English item. From Middle English item, from Latin item (“also; in the same manner”). The present English meaning derives from a usage in lists, where the first entry would begin in primis (“firstly”) or imprimis, and the other entries with item (“also, moreover”). Later, the members of lists were referred to as "items".

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

Practise this word

item in the wild

Thus, the range captures the intensity of their feelings for a given item.
Likert scale
In Indian cinema, an item number or special song is a musical number inserted into a film that may or may not have any relevance to the plot.
Item number
While male performers known as item boys occasionally feature in such sequences, the phenomenon remains overwhelmingly associated with women, who are far more frequently cast in these roles.
Item number
Games differ in how players collect and use items.
Item (game terminology)
The register was created in 1999 and includes items protected by heritage schedules that relate to the State, and to regional and to local environmental plans.
New South Wales State Heritage Register

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