Item and Material

Item

Item noun - A separate part in a list, account, or series.

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Material and item are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Material" instead a noun "Item".

Nearby Words: itemize, itemise, itemised

Material noun - The basic elements from which something can be developed.

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Item and material are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Item" instead a noun "Material".

good	good item	good material
expensive	expensive item	expensive material
rare	rare item	rare material
special	special item	special material
Other adjectives: best, better, similar, normal, common, certain, original, actual, new, extra, basic, different, available, magical.

Not only there's a huge list of Materials, you can power up your gear (known as Tempering ingame) with every item in the game that isn't a material.

Source: Item Crafting
Played straight when they gave an Ultra Rare item (which you have a 1 in no-one-really-knows-at-all chance of getting) a resulting material when you pulverize it, making you lose the original item.

Source: Video Game / Kingdom of Loathing
Runescape has a broad item creation system which runs right from raw-material collection up, and can be used to create just about everything in the game.

Source: Item Crafting

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