Item vs. Topic — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Item and Topic
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Item
A single article or unit in a collection, enumeration, or series.
Topic
The subject of a speech, essay, thesis, or discourse.
Item
A clause of a document, such as a bill or charter.
Topic
A subject of discussion or conversation.
Item
An entry in an account.
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Topic
A subdivision of a theme, thesis, or outline.
Item
A bit of information; a detail.
Topic
(Linguistics) A word or phrase in a sentence, usually providing information from previous discourse or shared knowledge, that the rest of the sentence elaborates or comments on. Also called theme.
Item
A short piece in a newspaper or magazine.
Topic
Topical
Item
A romantically involved couple
"[They] soon began seeing each other ... and were an item for a year and a half." (Peter J. Boyer).
Topic
Subject; theme; a category or general area of interest.
A society where a topic cannot be discussed, does not have free speech.
Stick to the topic
An interesting topic of conversation
Romance is a topic that frequently comes up in conversation
Item
Also; likewise. Used to introduce each article in an enumeration or list.
Topic
(Internet) Discussion thread.
Item
To record, especially in an itemized list.
Topic
(music) A musical sign intended to suggest a particular style or genre.
Item
A distinct physical object.
Tweezers are great for manipulating small items.
Topic
(obsolete) An argument or reason.
Item
An object that can be picked up for later use.
Topic
An external local application or remedy, such as a plaster, a blister, etc.
Item
A line of text having a legal or other meaning; a separate particular in an account.
The items in a bill
In response to the first item, we deny all wrongdoing.
Topic
One of the various general forms of argument employed in probable as distinguished from demonstrative reasoning, - denominated by Aristotle to`poi (literally, places), as being the places or sources from which arguments may be derived, or to which they may be referred; also, a prepared form of argument, applicable to a great variety of cases, with a supply of which the ancient rhetoricians and orators provided themselves; a commonplace of argument or oratory.
These topics, or loci, were no other than general ideas applicable to a great many different subjects, which the orator was directed to consult.
In this question by [reason] I do not mean a distinct topic, but a transcendent that runs through all topics.
Item
(psychometrics) A question on a test, which may include its answers.
The exam has 100 items, each of which includes a correct response and three distractors.
Topic
An argument or reason.
Contumacious persons, who are not to be fixed by any principles, whom no topics can work upon.
Item
A matter for discussion in an agenda.
The first item for discussion is the budget for next year's picnic.
Topic
The subject of any distinct portion of a discourse, or argument, or literary composition; also, the general or main subject of the whole; a matter treated of; a subject, as of conversation or of thought; a matter; a point; a head.
Item
(informal) Two people who are having a romantic or sexual relationship with each other.
Jack and Jill are an item.
Topic
An external local application or remedy, as a plaster, a blister, etc.
Item
A short article in a newspaper.
An item concerning the weather
Topic
Topical.
Item
(obsolete) A hint; an innuendo.
Topic
The subject matter of a conversation or discussion;
He didn't want to discuss that subject
It was a very sensitive topic
His letters were always on the theme of love
Item
(India) item girl
Topic
Some situation or event that is thought about;
He kept drifting off the topic
He had been thinking about the subject for several years
It is a matter for the police
Item
(transitive) To make a note of.
Item
Likewise
Item
Also; as an additional article.
Item
An article; a separate particular in an account; as, the items in a bill; he picked up four items at the drug store.
Item
A hint; an innuendo.
A secret item was given to some of the bishops . . . to absent themselves.
Item
A short article in a newspaper; a paragraph; as, an item concerning the weather.
Item
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.
Item
To make a note or memorandum of.
I have itemed it in my memory.
Item
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
A whole individual unit; especially when included in a list or collection;
They reduced the price on many items
Item
A small part that can be considered separately from the whole;
It was perfect in all details
Item
An isolated fact that is considered separately from the whole;
Several of the details are similar
A point of information
Item
An individual instance of a type of symbol;
The word`error' contains three tokens of `r'
Item
(used when listing or enumerating items) also;
A length of chain, item a hook
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