What's the difference between item and prop?

Item


Definition:

  • (adv.) Also; as an additional article.
  • (n.) An article; a separate particular in an account; as, the items in a bill.
  • (n.) A hint; an innuendo.
  • (n.) A short article in a newspaper; a paragraph; as, an item concerning the weather.
  • (v. t.) To make a note or memorandum of.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) An application is made to the validity of cancer risk items included in a cancer registry.
  • (2) To be fair to lads who find themselves just a bus ride from Auschwitz, a visit to the camp is now considered by many tourists to be a Holocaust "bucket list item", up there with the Anne Frank museum, where Justin Bieber recently delivered this compliment : "Anne was a great girl.
  • (3) A subsample of patients scoring over the recommended threshold (five or above) on the general health questionnaire were interviewed by the psychiatrist to compare the case detection of the general practitioner, an independent psychiatric assessment and the 28-item general health questionnaire at two different cut-off scores.
  • (4) Other Christmas favourites, including stollen, organic mince pies and Schweppes tonic will also be included among 100 seasonal products on the list of 1,000 items which shoppers can choose from over the next few months.
  • (5) Although various micronutrients (vitamins and trace elements) have also been found to have either a positive or negative association, findings were more clear-cut for the different food items contributing the micronutrients than for the specific micronutrients themselves.
  • (6) Nearly all 17 items of a behaviour rating scale had improved very significantly by the end of the fourth week, while in 82% of the patients of group A and 76% of group B results were rated good to very good.
  • (7) UPDATE II [Tues.] Two other items that may be of interest: first, Guardian editor-in-chief Alan Rusbridger was the guest for the full hour yesterday on Democracy Now, discussing the paper's role in reporting the NSA stories, and the video and transcript of the interview are here ; second, marking our collaboration on a series of articles about spying on Indians, the Hindu has a long interview with me on a variety of related topics, here .
  • (8) The ONS said it was possible that these one-off items and a rise in tax receipts in January could bring the overall debt figure within the OBR's £80.5bn forecast.
  • (9) An important step in instrument development is writing the items that are derived from concept analysis and validation.
  • (10) Case histories Citing some or all of the following cases makes you look knowledgeable: * Wilson v Love (1896) established that a charge was a penalty if it did not relate to the true cost of an item.
  • (11) In a BBC Radio 4 performance that attempts to underline his status as a normal bloke – although he admits he was too "square" to attract a girlfriend at university – Miliband's luxury item is a weekly chicken tikka masala from his local north London Indian takeaway.
  • (12) The performance of candidates on the geriatric medicine items on the American Board of Internal Medicine's 1980, 1981, and 1982 Certifying Examinations was analyzed.
  • (13) By using a quasi-A-B-A experimental design for the six abortion items that appeared in the Edmonton Area Survey for the years 1984, 1987, and 1988, we found that the order of presentation of the items affected dramatically the endorsement of the abortion items.
  • (14) The texture of a food item can be distinguished in hardness, toughness, stickiness, juiciness and chewability.
  • (15) Study of the clinical characteristics of depressive state by hemisphere stroke with the use of symptom items of Zung scale and Hamilton scale showed that patients in depressive state with right hemisphere stroke had high values in symptom items considered close to the essence of endogenous depression such as depressed mood, suicide, diurnal variation, loss of weight, and paranoid symptoms, while patients in depressive state with left hemisphere stroke had high values in symptom items having a nuance of so-called neurotic depression such as psychic anxiety, hypochondriasis, and fatigue.
  • (16) The objectivity of the items was proved by fourfold examination of the same sample group.
  • (17) As well as stocking second-hand items for purchase, charity shops such as Oxfam have launched Christmas gifts to provide specific help for poor communities abroad.
  • (18) Following this relaxation procedure, subjects were asked to complete a 20 item questionnaire in which a five point rating scale served as an index of the degree of acceptance of relaxation.
  • (19) Afghanistan will be the main item on the agenda at a meeting on Wednesdaybetween Cameron and Barack Obama in the Oval Office on the main day of the visit.
  • (20) Our own criteria for evaluating hypertension were employed on the basis of the following items: a past history of hypertension, blood pressure levels on admission and during hospitalization, degree of retinopathy, and ECG changes.

Prop


Definition:

  • (n.) A shell, used as a die. See Props.
  • (v. t.) To support, or prevent from falling, by placing something under or against; as, to prop up a fence or an old building; (Fig.) to sustain; to maintain; as, to prop a declining state.
  • (v.) That which sustains an incumbent weight; that on which anything rests or leans for support; a support; a stay; as, a prop for a building.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The calcium channel blockers 'DMDP' [N-3,4-dimethoxyphenethyl)-N-methyl-2-(2-naphthyl-m-dithane-2-prop ylamine)] and verapamil inhibited the active efflux of adriamycin from adriamycin-resistant P388 leukemia cells but had no effect on the drug-sensitive cell line.
  • (2) Moscovici added that France wants the summit to set up a eurozone banking union, which would take on responsibility for propping up failing banks and guarantee depositors' savings across the 17 countries.
  • (3) The "Be Kind Rewind Protocol", as he calls it, involves setting up small studios with modest sets and facilities – props, back-projection footage, video cameras – so that groups of people can make their own amateur movies together according to anti-auteurist rules drawn up by Gondry.
  • (4) A popular strain of foreign policy thought has long held that the US should be guided primarily by self-interest rather than human rights concerns: hence, since the US wants its Fifth Fleet to remain in Bahrain and believes ( with good reason ) that these dictators will serve US interests far better than if popular will in these countries prevails, it is right to prop up these autocrats.
  • (5) Quiet crisis: why battle to prop up Italy's banks is vital to EU stability Read more The country’s third-largest lender has already been bailed out twice in modern Italian history but is likely to need a third multibillion-euro intervention by the Italian government – a move that would need Brussels to break new rules designed to prevent such taxpayer bailouts after the 2008 global financial crisis.
  • (6) 15 human tumour cell lines (lung, breast and colon) have been evaluated for their sensitivity to the quinone based anti-cancer drugs Mitomycin C, Porfiromycin, and EO9 (3-hydroxymethyl-5-aziridinyl-1-methyl-2-(IH-indole-4,7-dione)prop-beta- en-alpha-ol).
  • (7) Although the CBI supported the reforms, there was heavy lobbying from other EU business groups to reject the reforms, that would have helped to prop up the price of carbon dioxide permits to businesses.
  • (8) Replays cast doubt on the penalty decision, the ball having been touched by the Australian replacement scrum-half, Nick Phipps, before the referee, Craig Joubert, adjudged the Scottish prop Jon Welsh caught it while standing in an offside position.
  • (9) We know this system doesn't work – and yet we prop it up with ignorance and indifference.
  • (10) Theresa May’s plan for a loose alliance with the Democratic Unionists to prop up her government was thrown into confusion on Saturday night after the Northern Ireland party contradicted a No 10 announcement that a deal had been reached.
  • (11) A variety of interventional endovascular instruments have been produced and used in a wide field of pathologies: balloons for proximal clamping, distal embolization by particles, arterial desobstruction by seeking devices, propping of vascular lumen by stenting, in situ infusion of drugs (fibrinolysis), filters, foreign body retrieval systems.
  • (12) Mariah Carey 's need for a staff member to carry her drink and prop up the bendy bit of her straw is what makes me love her so much.
  • (13) Prop therapy also reduced atrial and RV hypertrophy.
  • (14) Inside, Suge is propped up on a mattress on the floor watching soap operas, an overflowing spittoon at his side.
  • (15) However, charities must expect to be "pit props" to some extent.
  • (16) He pointed out that some of the fall was down to the expiry of a government scheme expiring that had "artificially propped up" the housing market over the past year.
  • (17) It was pored over by line producers, prop masters, location scouts, production designers, scenic designers, costume designers, directors, assistant directors, second assistant directors, and second second assistant directors – at each step becoming more real, as if emerging from the shimmer of some distant desert horizon.
  • (18) The compound (E)-4-2-(5,6,7,8)tetrahydro-5,5,8,8-tetramethyl-2-naphtalenyl)prop enyl benzoic acid (Ro 1374-10) was approximately 2-3 orders of magnitude more potent than all-trans-retinoic acid in inhibiting breast carcinoma cell proliferation while the compound SRI-6409-40, which differs from Ro 1374-10 only by the position of a methyl group, was 50-fold more potent than Ro 1374-10.
  • (19) The abandon of comedy is always there, though, the feeling of, “Fuck it, let’s try that TONIGHT!” because the audience’s expectations are different at a late-night comedy thing and they don’t mind crappy props and people reading scripts, and if it dies there’s always tomorrow.
  • (20) The collapsing economy was propped up only by loans from wealthy Gulf countries.