food item
collocation in Englishmeaningsoffoodanditem
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food
noun[C or U]
uk/fuːd/us/fuːd/
something that people and animals eat, or plants absorb, to keep ...
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item
noun[C]
uk/ˈaɪ.təm/us/ˈaɪ.t̬əm/
something that is part of a list or group ...
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(Definition offoodanditemfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
Examplesoffood item
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The material was sorted, andfooditemremains such as seeds, arthropod fragments, teeth, hair, nails, feathers, and scales, among others, were selected for analysis.
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But if the expectancy of receiving afooditemby pressing its lexigram key was removed, their response behavior quickly became fragmented again.
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No otherfooditemwas significantly associated with illness.
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Homescan panelists do not report the unit prices for eachfooditem; they report the total expenditure and the quantity of eachfooditempurchased.
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In the case of the ' not keen ' option : when indicating that they were doubtful about afooditem, their intonation did not convey this.
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The main changes made to the website were to improve the users, understanding offooditemselections.
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Mean retention time is the average number of hours it took a primate to pass afooditem.
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No other commonfooditem, grocery store, restaurant or other event was identified in the initial investigation.
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Therefore, they wanted to see eachfooditemwith their own eyes in order to judge its quality and utility for cooking.
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Participants for phase 2 testing saw a modification to thisfooditem.
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Values indicate numbers of cases and controls that chose eachfooditemfrom the display.
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Each trophic category refers to the predominantfooditem(s) in the diet, but other less important items may also be taken.
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A sample of 100 g dry weight of eachfooditemwas collected twice during the sampling period from multiple locations.
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The investigation, however, did not implicate any specificfooditem.
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Natural selection will act on parasites that are transmitted through the food chain, to become more and more attractive to their host as afooditem.
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Where there was a single shop involved, there were a number of product lines with no consistent pattern of a particularfooditememerging or a particular food source.
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Verbal directives certainly occurred during these periods, but they were restricted primarily to solving specific problems (incorrect orders, running out of a particularfooditem, etc).
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Much work has been done describing changes in fruit availability and dietary composition but the nutritional quality of any particularfooditemis assumed to be relatively constant.
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These outbreaks were defined by the occurrence of a similar illness among two or more persons, which an investigation linked to consumption of a common meal orfooditem.
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Second, a multivariate discriminant function analysis was used to link the distributions of the bulbul abundance classes to thefooditemvariables.
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