Word Finder - item

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A distinct physical object.

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Tweezers are great for manipulating small items.

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(by extension) An object that can be picked up for later use.

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A line of text having a legal or other meaning; a separate particular in an account.

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In response to the first item, we deny all wrongdoing.

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(psychometrics) A question on a test, which may include its answers.

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The exam has 100 items, each of which includes a correct response and three distractors.

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A matter for discussion in an agenda.

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The first item for discussion is the budget for next year's picnic.

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Two people who are having a relationship with each other.

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Jack and Jill are an item.

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A short article in a newspaper.

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an item concerning the weather

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A hint; an innuendo.

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To make a note of.

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If prices for an item fall, this is a net good.

The most important item remains the contents.

Four years ago, she and Dean were a weekly item, as they say.

It is quite consistent with the evidence to suppose that a seven-day week was in use in Babylonia, but each item may be explained differently, and a definite proof does not exist.

I just ask one thing; will you take my word for one item and if you stop this vehicle you'll have more reward than you'll know what to do with.

The last item on Dean's list of pleasurable activities was punching one if you want this and two if you want that buttons, then sitting on hold while listening to elevator music from some bureaucratic office.

Maybe I sound like a jerk, but it's been ten years since we were an item and I've got a life now.

This convinced Fred the man was Byrne but Dean gave the item little merit.

It was evident that each and every item had been carefully chosen; clearly the home of an artist.

This item alone amounted during the previous forty-six years, the parliament declared, " at the least to eight score thousand pounds, besides other great and intolerable sums which have yearly been conveyed to the said court of Rome by many other ways and means to the great impoverishment of this realm."

What she needed was a line item veto.

Each time Dean put the Byrne disappearance to rest in his mind, another nagging item popped up to renew his attention.

Such statistics are studied mainly with the object of learning the lessons which they may afford as to preventive measures for the future; and from this point of view the most important element is the single item of passengers killed in train accidents (a 1).

We may draw the inference that they formed an insignificant item in the population of a small province of the Persian Empire, and yet doubt whether they did actually refuse - alone of all the inhabitants of Palestine - to submit to the conqueror of the whole.

The governor's veto power extends to items in appropriation bills, and to overcome his veto, whether of a whole bill or an item of an appropriation bill, a two-thirds vote in each house of the members* present is required, and such two-thirds must include in each house a majority of the members elected to that house.

However, if you are exchanging items, there will not be a charge on the new item that is shipped to you.

Of the imports the largest single item is cotton goods, nearly all being sent from England.

They form a very popular item in Roman Catholic devotion.

Thoroughgoing reconstruction in every item of theology and in every detail of polity there may be, yet shall the Christian life go on - the life which finds its deepest utterance in the words of Christ, " Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart and thy neighbour as thyself "; the life which expresses its profoundest faith in the words Christ taught it to pray, "Our Father"; the life which finds its highest rule of conduct in the words of its first and greatest interpreter, " Let this mind be in you which was also in Christ Jesus our Lord."

The governor may veto any separate item in an appropriation bill.

The governor may (since 1875) veto any item in any appropriation bill, but any bill (or item) may be passed over his veto by bare majorities (of all members elected) in both houses.

It is true that every item of scientific knowledge is concerned with some definite relation of definite phenomena, and with nothing else; but, for all that, the systematic organization of such items may quite well yield further knowledge, which transcends the special relations of definite phenomena."

The constitution reserves to the people the privilege of rejecting any act or any item of any act whenever 5% of the legal voters ask that the matter be voted upon at a general election; and the people may initiate legislation by a petition signed by 8% of the electorate.

No evidence has been produced to support the contention being made in item 43.

I came across an item in which someone made a remark about " Deltic " being the first diesel loco.

A task, such as a to-do item, can be scheduled, and optionally, a completion deadline can be set.

Among other things, developing relations with India in the oil sector, would be the topmost item on his agenda.

The governor has three days (Sundays excepted) in which to veto any bill or any item in an appropriation bill, and a two-thirds vote of the members elected to each house is required to override his veto.

The fishery is of ancient importance; at the old towns of Falsterbo and SkanOr, south of Malmo, thousands of fishermen were employed until the harbours became choked in 1631, and the fish were a valuable item in the Hanseatic commerce.

The iron-mining industry is of high importance, the output of iron ore forming by far the largest item in the total output of ores and minerals.

The consolidated fund services are an annual charge, fixed by statute, and alterable only by statute, but the supply services may be gone through in detail, item by item, by the House of Commons, which forms itself into a committee of supply for the purpose.

The calisaya trees of Bolivia rank among the best, and their bark forms an important item in her foreign trade.

A board of estimate, composed of the mayor, the city solicitor, the comptroller, the president of the second branch of the city council, and the president of the board of public improvements, has control over appropriations, the council having power to decrease the amount of any item but not to enlarge it.

Even in commercial transactions, in dealing with sums of money, the statement of an amount often has reference to the last item added rather than to a total; and geometrical measurements are practically ordinal (§ 26).

Sericulture, a growing industry, is chiefly carried on in Ferghana, whence silk cocoons are an important item of export, the output having doubled between 1892 and 1903 (3869 tons).

His first measure was to make the festival-money a permanent item in the budget.

But it is certain that he explained to his own satisfaction and accepted every item of the Roman Catholic creed, even going beyond it, as in holding the pope to be infallible in canonization; and while expressing his preference for English as compared with Italian devotional forms, he was himself one of the first to introduce such into England, together with the ritual peculiarities of the local Roman Church.

There the most intriguing item for me was the set of proofs of the never to be issued coinage of Edward VIII.

On almost no item on our agenda does anyone seriously contend that each nation can fend for itself.

The next item of interest is the towpath swing bridge at the entrance to the bone works arm.

Perhaps the biggest item on the checklist is whether you stay or go-retain ownership of the business and grow it or sell it and move on to another venture.

Ask guests to bring a copy of their favorite children's book to help stock baby's library or their favorite toy or an item that reminds them of their childhood.

It will be difficult for you to buy an item that he doesn't already have.

Of course, this doesn't include every type of silver item, but it will give you a good start as you begin searching for that perfect gift.

Any item that stimulates one or more of the senses is an excellent baby educational toy.

The largest single item in point of value was the product ($3,053,008) of the slaughtering and meat-packing establishments.

In 1904 the exportation of straw and other fibre hats began; these resemble those of Panama and promise to become an important item.

His veto power extends to items in appropriation bills, but any bill or item may be passed over his veto by three-fifths of the members elected to each house of the legislature.

The largest item in the freights is iron ore on vessels bound down.

To diminish the item of expenditure on this head, various kinds of mechanical furnaces have been adopted, all of which can be classified under three heads of gravitating furnaces, mechanical stirrers and revolving furnaces.