ISSUE

issue, issuing, issuance

(noun) the act of providing an item for general use or for official purposes (usually in quantity); “a new issue of stamps”; “the last issue of penicillin was over a month ago”

issue, publication

(noun) the act of issuing printed materials

exit, issue, outlet, way out

(noun) an opening that permits escape or release; “he blocked the way out”; “the canyon had only one issue”

topic, subject, issue, matter

(noun) some situation or event that is thought about; “he kept drifting off the topic”; “he had been thinking about the subject for several years”; “it is a matter for the police”

issue

(noun) an important question that is in dispute and must be settled; “the issue could be settled by requiring public education for everyone”; “politicians never discuss the real issues”

issue, number

(noun) one of a series published periodically; “she found an old issue of the magazine in her dentist’s waiting room”

emergence, egress, issue

(noun) the becoming visible; “not a day’s difference between the emergence of the andrenas and the opening of the willow catkins”

offspring, progeny, issue

(noun) the immediate descendants of a person; “she was the mother of many offspring”; “he died without issue”

consequence, effect, outcome, result, event, issue, upshot

(noun) a phenomenon that follows and is caused by some previous phenomenon; “the magnetic effect was greater when the rod was lengthwise”; “his decision had depressing consequences for business”; “he acted very wise after the event”

return, issue, take, takings, proceeds, yield, payoff

(noun) the income or profit arising from such transactions as the sale of land or other property; “the average return was about 5%”

issue, military issue, government issue

(noun) supplies (as food or clothing or ammunition) issued by the government

issue, emerge, come out, come forth, go forth, egress

(verb) come out of; “Water issued from the hole in the wall”; “The words seemed to come out by themselves”

publish, bring out, put out, issue, release

(verb) prepare and issue for public distribution or sale; “publish a magazine or newspaper”

issue

(verb) bring out an official document (such as a warrant)

issue, supply

(verb) circulate or distribute or equip with; “issue a new uniform to the children”; “supply blankets for the beds”

Source: WordNet® 3.1

Etymology

Noun

issue (plural issues)

The action or an instance of flowing or coming out, an outflow, particularly:

(military, obsolete) A movement of soldiers towards an enemy, a sortie.

(medical) The outflow of a bodily fluid, particularly (now rare) in abnormal amounts.

Someone or something that flows out or comes out, particularly

(medical, now rare) The bodily fluid drained through a natural or artificial issue.

(now usually historical or law) Offspring: one's natural child or children.

(figuratively) Progeny: all one's lineal descendants.

(figuratively, obsolete) A race of people considered as the descendants of some common ancestor.

(now rare) The produce or income derived from farmland or rental properties.

(historical or rare law) Income derived from fines levied by a court or law-enforcement officer; the fines themselves.

(obsolete) The entrails of a slaughtered animal.

(rare and obsolete) Any action or deed performed by a person.

(obsolete) Luck considered as the favor or disfavor of nature, the gods, or God.

(figuratively, originally WWI military slang, usually with definite article) The entire set of something; all of something.

(finance) Any financial instrument issued by a company.

The means or opportunity by which something flows or comes out, particularly:

(obsolete) A sewer.

The place where something flows or comes out, an outlet, particularly:

(obsolete) An exit from a room or building.

(now rare) A confluence: the mouth of a river; the outlet of a lake or other body of water.

The action or an instance of sending something out, particularly:

(historical medicine) A small incision, tear, or artificial ulcer, used to drain fluid and usually held open with a pea or other small object.

The production or distribution of something for general use.

The distribution of something (particularly rations or standardized provisions) to someone or some group.

(finance) The action or an instance of a company selling bonds, stock, or other securities.

Any question or situation to be resolved, particularly:

(law) A point of law or fact in dispute or question in a legal action presented for resolution by the court.

(figuratively) Anything in dispute, an area of disagreement whose resolution is being debated or decided.

(rare and obsolete) A dispute between two alternatives, a dilemma.

(US, originally psychology, usually, in the plural) A psychological or emotional difficulty, (now informal, figurative and usually euphemistic) any problem or concern considered as a vague and intractable difficulty.

The action or an instance of concluding something, particularly:

(obsolete) The end of any action or process.

(obsolete) The end of any period of time.

The end result of an event or events, any result or outcome, particularly:

(now rare) The result of a discussion or negotiation, an agreement.

(obsolete) The result of an investigation or consideration, a conclusion.

(figurative, now rare) The action or an instance of feeling some emotion.

(figurative, now rare) The action or an instance of leaving any state or condition.

Synonyms

• (movement of soldiers): sortie, sally; charge (rapid, usually mounted)

• (progeny): descendants, fruit of one's loins, offspring

Verb

issue (third-person singular simple present issues, present participle issuing, simple past and past participle issued)

To flow out, to proceed from, to come out or from.

To rush out, to sally forth.

To extend into, to open onto.

To turn out in a certain way, to result in.

(legal) To come to a point in fact or law on which the parties join issue.

To send out; to put into circulation.

To deliver for use.

To deliver by authority.

Synonyms

• (to give out): begive

Anagrams

• Iesus, Susie, usies, ussie

Etymology

Noun

Issue (plural Issues)

A Monacan Indian; a member of a Mestee group originating in Amherst County, Virginia.

Anagrams

• Iesus, Susie, usies, ussie

Source: Wiktionary

Is"sue, n. Etym: [OF. issue, eissue, F. issue, fr. OF. issir, eissir, to go out, L. exire; ex out of, from + ire to go, akin to Gr. i., Goth. iddja went, used as prefect of gaggan to go. Cf. Ambition, Count a nobleman, Commence, Errant, Exit, Eyre, Initial, Yede went.]

1. The act of passing or flowing out; a moving out from any inclosed place; egress; as, the issue of water from a pipe, of blood from a wound, of air from a bellows, of people from a house.

2. The act of sending out, or causing to go forth; delivery; issuance; as, the issue of an order from a commanding officer; the issue of money from a treasury.

3. That which passes, flows, or is sent out; the whole quantity sent forth or emitted at one time; as, an issue of bank notes; the daily issue of a newspaper.

4. Progeny; a child or children; offspring. In law, sometimes, in a general sense, all persons descended from a common ancestor; all lineal descendants. If the king Should without issue die. Shak.

5. Produce of the earth, or profits of land, tenements, or other property; as, A conveyed to B all his right for a term of years, with all the issues, rents, and profits.

6. A discharge of flux, as of blood. Matt. ix. 20.

7. (Med.)

Definition: An artificial ulcer, usually made in the fleshy part of the arm or leg, to produce the secretion and discharge of pus for the relief of some affected part.

8. The final outcome or result; upshot; conclusion; event; hence, contest; test; trial. Come forth to view The issue of the exploit. Shak. While it is hot, I 'll put it to the issue. Shak.

9. A point in debate or controversy on which the parties take affirmative and negative positions; a presentation of alternatives between which to choose or decide.

10. (Law)

Definition: In pleading, a single material point of law or fact depending in the suit, which, being affirmed on the one side and denied on the other, is presented for determination. See General issue, under General, and Feigned issue, under Feigned. Blount. Cowell. At issue, in controversy; disputed; opposing or contesting; hence, at variance; disagreeing; inconsistent. As much at issue with the summer day As if you brought a candle out of doors. Mrs. Browning.

– Bank of issue, Collateral issue, etc. See under Bank, Collateral, etc.

– Issue pea, a pea, or a similar round body, used to maintain irritation in a wound, and promote the secretion and discharge of pus.

– To join, or take, issue, to take opposing sides in a matter in controversy.

Is"sue, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Issued; p. pr. & vb. n. Issuing.]

1. To pass or flow out; to run out, as from any inclosed place. From it issued forced drops of blood. Shak.

2. To go out; to rush out; to sally forth; as, troops issued from the town, and attacked the besiegers.

3. To proceed, as from a source; as, water issues from springs; light issues from the sun.

4. To proceed, as progeny; to be derived; to be descended; to spring. Of thy sons that shall issue from thee. 2 Kings xx. 18.

5. To extend; to pass or open; as, the path issues into the highway.

6. To be produced as an effect or result; to grow or accrue; to arise; to proceed; as, rents and profits issuing from land, tenements, or a capital stock.

7. To close; to end; to terminate; to turn out; as, we know not how the cause will issue.

8. (Law)

Definition: In pleading, to come to a point in fact or law, on which the parties join issue.

Is"sue, v. t.

1. To send out; to put into circulation; as, to issue notes from a bank.

2. To deliver for use; as, to issue provisions.

3. To send out officially; to deliver by authority; as, to issue an order; to issue a writ.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition

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