(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.
Snack
Definition:
(v. t.) A share; a part or portion; -- obsolete, except in the colloquial phrase, to go snacks, i. e., to share.
(v. t.) A slight, hasty repast.
Example Sentences:
(1) In a second set of test sessions, volunteers chewed sugarless gum for 10 minutes, starting 15 minutes after they ate the snack food.
(2) Preprandial and postprandial blood glucose levels were measured for each meal and snack (18 measurements per day).
(3) It is concluded that the development was influenced by several factors, such as different snacking habits and access to sweets, the study per se, and xylitol-induced effects.
(4) The traditionally larger meals of the day (lunch and dinner) represented higher proportions of daily intake in fat and obese children; the energy value of breakfast and afternoon snack was inversely related to corpulence.
(5) As I outlined during our meeting, I believe we can strengthen both of our companies by bringing them together, enhancing their worldwide scale and scope, and capitalizing on significant opportunities, building on the position of Kraft Foods Inc. ("Kraft Foods") as a global powerhouse in snacks, confectionery and quick meals for the benefit of all of our respective stakeholders.
(6) French adolescents eat as the preceding generation even if some behaviors (snacks, fastfood) may appear very different from those in adults.
(7) There are wild beaches for those prepared to tote their own supplies, but most have a shack selling drinks, ice-creams and snacks.
(8) The relations between reported frequency of consumption of 18 common snack foods, SES variables, and oral health scores were studied in 92 12-year-old children from three inner-city schools in Rochester, New York.
(9) My regret at not eating these tasty snacks is soon allayed by Sara’s magical wilderness cooking skills: she somehow conjures up a three-course dinner from a few packets and a single burner.
(10) The cluster with the poorest dietary intake (high intake of fat, cholesterol, and alcohol; low intake of dietary fibre) showed on average a high consumption of animal products (except milk), fats and oils, snacks, and alcoholic beverages, and a low consumption of fruit, potatoes, vegetables, and sugar rich products.
(11) Two snacks ranked of approximately equal medium appeal were individually chosen from an array by each of 86 children (ages 4 years, 4 months to 7 years, 2 months).
(12) This involves ceaseless snacking of foodstuff with a low glycaemic load, foods that are mainly hummus or things that remind you of hummus or things that are called "hummus" but aren't, in an attempt to appeal to people who only eat hummus (butterbean hummus.
(13) The streets surrounding it are where locals go for snacks ( xiao chi ); Huguosi Xiaochi is a popular joint, as well as many other restaurants on the same stretch.
(14) But the long-term future of North Korea may be partly determined by a small, round, sugary snack from the South given as a reward to North Korean workers, say analysts.
(15) Feeling peckish, I ride to the lake’s official and slightly gaudy Strandbad, which is free to get in and has several snack stalls.
(16) However, its major interest could be observed during snacks and meals in order to control precisely post-prandial glucose variations, in association with blood glucose self-monitoring.
(17) We eat twice a day and snack at tea time, with leftovers and teas always available.
(18) The consumption of a carbohydrate-rich, protein-poor meal or snack can increase the synthesis of the brain neurotransmitter serotonin; proteins block this effect.
(19) It went into tinned soups, salad dressings, processed meats, carbohydrate-based snacks, ice cream, bread, canned tuna, chewing gum, baby food and soft drinks.
(20) In addition, extrudates were utilized to prepare snacks of better nutritional quality than existing similar commercial products.