item vs segment

item

noun
  • A distinct physical object. 

  • A question on a test, which may include its answers. 

  • Two people who are having a romantic or sexual relationship with each other. 

  • A line of text having a legal or other meaning; a separate particular in an account. 

  • An object that can be picked up for later use. 

  • A short article in a newspaper. 

  • A matter for discussion in an agenda. 

verb
  • To make a note of. 

adv
  • likewise 

segment

noun
  • A length of some object. 

  • A straight path between two points that is the shortest distance between them. 

  • One of several parts of an organism, with similar structure, arranged in a chain; such as a vertebra, or a third of an insect's thorax. 

  • The part of a circle between its circumference and a chord (usually other than the diameter). 

  • A part of a broadcast program, devoted to a topic. 

  • An Ethernet bus. 

  • Any of the pieces that constitute an order tree. 

  • A discrete unit of speech: a consonant or a vowel. 

  • The part of a sphere cut off by a plane. 

  • A bearing representing only one part of a rounded object. 

  • One of the parts into which any body naturally separates or is divided; a part divided or cut off; a section; a portion. 

  • A portion of an organ whose cells are derived from a single cell within the primordium from which the organ developed. 

  • A portion of an itinerary: it may be a flight or train between two cities, or a car or hotel booked in a particular city. 

  • A region of memory or a fragment of an executable file designated to contain a particular part of a program. 

verb
  • To divide into segments or sections. 

How often have the words item and segment occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )