itemとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ˈaɪ.təm/
• (General American, Canada) IPA: /ˈaɪ.təm/, [ˈaɪ̯.ɾəm], [ˈaɪ̯.ɾm̩]
• (General Australian) IPA: /ˈɑe.təm/, [ˈɑe̯.ɾəm], [ˈɑe̯.ɾm̩]
• (New Zealand) IPA: /ˈaɪ.təm/, [ˈɑe̯.ɾəm], [ˈɑe̯.ɾm̩]
• ハイフネーション: i‧tem

名詞

item (plural items)

1. A distinct physical object.

   Tweezers are great for manipulating small items.

   • 2013 July 26, Nick Miroff, “Mexico gets a taste for eating insects   […] ”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 7, page 32:

     The San Juan market is Mexico City's most famous deli of exotic meats, where an adventurous shopper can hunt down hard-to-find critters  […] . But the priciest items in the market aren't the armadillo steaks or even the bluefin tuna.

2. (by extension, video games) An object that can be picked up for later use.
3. 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.

   • 2001, David L. Lieber and Jules Harlow, Etz Hayim: Torah and Commentary, page 1143:

     Beyond being mere items of a legal code, they [the mitzvot] are the very basis of the relationship that God and the people Israel have established.

4. (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.

5. A matter for discussion in an agenda.

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

6. (informal) Two people who are having a romantic or sexual relationship with each other.

   Jack and Jill are an item.

   • 2010, Justin Bieber featuring Ludacris, Baby:

     Are we an item? Girl, quit playin' / "We're just friends," what are you sayin'?

7. A short article in a newspaper.

   an item concerning the weather

8. (obsolete) A hint; an innuendo.
   • 1655, Thomas Fuller, The Church-history of Britain; […], London: […] Iohn Williams […], →OCLC, (please specify |book=I to XI):

     A secret item was given to some of the bishops […] to absent themselves.

9. (India) Ellipsis of item girl.
   • 2017, Nandita Chaudhary, Pernille Hviid, Giuseppina Marsico, Resistance in Everyday Life: Constructing Cultural Experiences, page 246:

     In this chapter, we will attempt to trace the course of initiation into the classical arts, from the self-taught gyrations of Bollywood items to the serious rigours of a classical Indian dance form.

同意語

• (object): article, object, thing
• (line of text having a legal or semantic meaning):
• (matter for discussion): subject, topic
• (two people who are having a relationship with each other): couple
• (psychometrics): test/assessment question

下位語

派生語

動詞

item (third-person singular simple present items, present participle iteming, simple past and past participle itemed)

1. (transitive) To make a note of.

関連する語

• itemize

副詞

item (not comparable)

1. likewise

アナグラム

• METI, EMT-I, it me, time, emit, Mite, mite, -time

発音

• IPA: /ˈiːtɛm/

副詞

item

1. also, and this

Further reading

• “item, adv. & n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 25 April 2018.

名詞

item

1. the same; identical.

派生した語

• English: item
• Scots: eetem

Further reading

• “item, adv. & n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 25 April 2018.

発音

• (Classical Latin) IPA: [ˈɪ.tẽː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: [ˈiː.tem]

副詞

item (not comparable)

1. just like (in a comparison)
   • c. 200 BCE – 190 BCE, Plautus, Captivi 5.4.9–11:

     hegio: Salvē, exoptāte gnāte mī. tyndarus: Hem, quid 'gnāte mī'?
     Attat, sciō quor tē patrem assimules esse et mē fīlium:
     quia mī item ut parentēs lūcis dās tuendī cōpiam.

     hegio: Hello, my wished-for son. tyndarus: Huh, what 'my son'?
     Alas, I know why you act as if you were a father and I your son:
     because you give me the means to see the light, just like parents do.

   • 46 BCE, Cicero, Orator 60:

     Ita fit ut nōn item in ōrātiōne ut in versū numerus exstet, idque quod numerōsum in ōrātiōne dīcitur nōn semper numerō fīat, sed nōnnunquam aut concinnitāte aut cōnstructiōne verbōrum.

     So it turns out that there isn't a metre in prose just like in verse, and that which in oration is called 'metrical' is not always caused by metre, but also on occasion by the euphony and construction of the words.

2. likewise, also, further

派生した語

• → French: item
• → Middle English: item
  • English: item
  • Scots: eetem
• → Portuguese: item

参考

参照

• “item”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• "item", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• “item”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

接尾辞

-item

1. accusative singular of -es