Item vs Direction - What's the difference?
item | direction |
A distinct physical object.
*{{quote-magazine, date=2013-07-26, author=
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, title= A line of text having a legal or other meaning; a separate particular in an account.
(label) A question on a test, which may include its answers.
A matter for discussion in an agenda.
(label) Two people who are having a relationship with each other.
* 2010 , (Justin Bieber) featuring (Ludacris), ''
A short article in a newspaper.
(label) A hint; an innuendo.
* (Thomas Fuller) (1606-1661)
The action of directing; pointing (something) or looking towards.
* 1835 , Sir , Sir (James Clark Ross),
Guidance, instruction.
The work of the director in cinema or theater; the skill of directing a film, play etc.
(archaic) An address.
* 1796 , , (The Monk) , Folio Society 1985, p. 218:
The path or course of a given movement, or moving body; an indication of the point toward or from which an object is moving.
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, passage=Judge Short had gone to town, and Farrar was off for a three days' cruise up the lake. I was bitterly regretting I had not gone with him when the distant notes of a coach horn reached my ear, and I descried a four-in-hand winding its way up the inn road from the direction of Mohair.}}
* 1900 , , (The House Behind the Cedars) , Chapter I,
As nouns the difference between item and direction
is that item is while direction is the action of directing; pointing (something) or looking towards.item
English
Noun
(en noun)Nick Miroff
Mexico gets a taste for eating insects […], passage=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.}}
- Are we an item ? Girl, quit playin' / "We're just friends," what are you sayin'?
- A secret item was given to some of the bishops to absent themselves.
Synonyms
* (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 questionDerived terms
* subitem * itemize * polarity item * negative polarity item * positive polarity itemAnagrams
* emit, mite, time ----direction
English
(wikipedia direction)Noun
(en noun)Narrative of a Second Voyage in Search of a North-west Passage …, Volume 1, pp.284-5
- Towards the following morning, the thermometer fell to 5°; and at daylight, there was not an atom of water to be seen in any direction .
- Her aunt Leonella was still at Cordova, and she knew not her direction .
- Just before Warwick reached Liberty Point, a young woman came down Front Street from the direction of the market-house. When their paths converged, Warwick kept on down Front Street behind her, it having been already his intention to walk in this direction .