Item vs. Product
Item and Product Definitions
Item
A single article or unit in a collection, enumeration, or series.
Product
An item that is made or refined and marketed
Farm products.
Soaps, detergents, and similar products.
Travel products such as vacation trips.
Item
A clause of a document, such as a bill or charter.
Product
Such items considered as a group
Sold a lot of product in May.
Item
An entry in an account.
Product
A preparation, such as a gel, used for styling hair
Began to use product soon after he became famous.
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Item
A bit of information; a detail.
Product
A substance resulting from a chemical or nuclear reaction.
Item
A short piece in a newspaper or magazine.
Product
A direct result; a consequence
"Is history the product of impersonal social and economic forces?" (Anthony Lewis).
Item
A romantically involved couple
"[They] soon began seeing each other ... and were an item for a year and a half." (Peter J. Boyer).
Product
A person whose characteristics or abilities are the result of certain influences or kinds of experience
"She is the product of an America in which explicit displays of pride in intellect are considered unseemly" (Yuval Levin).
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Item
Also; likewise. Used to introduce each article in an enumeration or list.
Product
The number or quantity obtained by multiplying two or more numbers together.
Item
To record, especially in an itemized list.
Product
A scalar product.
Item
A distinct physical object.
Tweezers are great for manipulating small items.
Product
A vector product.
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Item
An object that can be picked up for later use.
Product
Anything that is produced; a result.
The product of last month's quality standards committee is quite good, even though the process was flawed.
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.
Product
The amount of an artifact that has been created by someone or some process.
They improve their product every year; they export most of their agricultural production.
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.
Product
A consequence of someone's efforts or of a particular set of circumstances.
Skill is the product of hours of practice.
His reaction was the product of hunger and fatigue.
Item
A matter for discussion in an agenda.
The first item for discussion is the budget for next year's picnic.
Product
(chemistry) A chemical substance formed as a result of a chemical reaction.
This is a product of lime and nitric acid.
Item
(informal) Two people who are having a romantic or sexual relationship with each other.
Jack and Jill are an item.
Product
(arithmetic) A quantity obtained by multiplication of two or more numbers.
The product of 2 and 3 is 6.
The product of 2, 3, and 4 is 24.
Item
A short article in a newspaper.
An item concerning the weather
Product
(mathematics) Any operation or a result thereof which generalises multiplication of numbers, like the multiplicative operation in a ring, product of types or a categorical product.
Item
(obsolete) A hint; an innuendo.
Product
Any tangible or intangible good or service that is a result of a process and that is intended for delivery to a customer or end user.
Item
(India) item girl
Product
A commodity offered for sale.
That store offers a variety of products.
We've got to sell a lot of product by the end of the month.
Item
(transitive) To make a note of.
Product
Any preparation to be applied to the hair, skin, nails, etc.
Wash excess product out of your hair.
Item
Likewise
Product
Illegal drugs, especially cocaine, when viewed as a commodity.
I got some product here – you buying?
Item
Also; as an additional article.
Product
To produce.
Item
An article; a separate particular in an account; as, the items in a bill; he picked up four items at the drug store.
Product
Anything that is produced, whether as the result of generation, growth, labor, or thought, or by the operation of involuntary causes; as, the products of the season, or of the farm; the products of manufactures; the products of the brain.
There are the productOf those ill-mated marriages.
These institutions are the products of enthusiasm.
Item
A hint; an innuendo.
A secret item was given to some of the bishops . . . to absent themselves.
Product
The number or sum obtained by adding one number or quantity to itself as many times as there are units in another number; the number resulting from the multiplication of two or more numbers; as, the product of the multiplication of 7 by 5 is 35. In general, the result of any kind of multiplication. See the Note under Multiplication.
Item
A short article in a newspaper; a paragraph; as, an item concerning the weather.
Product
To produce; to bring forward.
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.
Product
To lengthen out; to extend.
He that doth much . . . products his mortality.
Item
To make a note or memorandum of.
I have itemed it in my memory.
Product
To produce; to make.
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
Product
Commodities offered for sale;
Good business depends on having good merchandise
That store offers a variety of products
Item
A whole individual unit; especially when included in a list or collection;
They reduced the price on many items
Product
An artifact that has been created by someone or some process;
They improve their product every year
They export most of their agricultural production
Item
A small part that can be considered separately from the whole;
It was perfect in all details
Product
A consequence of someone's efforts or of a particular set of circumstances;
Skill is the product of hours of practice
His reaction was the product of hunger and fatigue
Item
An isolated fact that is considered separately from the whole;
Several of the details are similar
A point of information
Product
A chemical substance formed as a result of a chemical reaction;
A product of lime and nitric acid
Item
An individual instance of a type of symbol;
The word`error' contains three tokens of `r'
Product
A quantity obtained by multiplication;
The product of 2 and 3 is 6
Item
(used when listing or enumerating items) also;
A length of chain, item a hook
Product
The set of elements common to two or more sets;
The set of red hats is the intersection of the set of hats and the set of red things
