Word definition: issue

Etimology


From Middle English issue, from Old French issue (“an exit, a way out”), feminine past participle of issir (“to exit”), from Latin exeō (“go out, exit”), from prefix ex- (“out”) + eō (“go”).

noun


issue (plural issues)

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

Someone or something that flows out or comes out, particularly:

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

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

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

Any question or situation to be resolved, particularly:

The action or an instance of concluding something, particularly:

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

(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.

Examples


The technique minimizes the issue of blood from the incision.

And behold, a woman which was diseased with an issue of blood twelue yeeres, came behinde him [Jesus], and touched the hemme of his garment.

For she doted upon their paramours, whose flesh is as the flesh of asses, and whose issue is like the issue of horses.

He died intestate and without issue, so the extended family have all lawyered up.

Although his own kingdom disappeared, his issue went on to rule a quarter of Europe.

3. A conveys to B all right to the real property aforementioned for a term of _____ years, with all said real property's attendant issues, rents, and profits.

Yeah, I just got the June issue of Wombatboy.

The May 1918 issue of US 24-cent stamps became famous when a printer's error inverted its depiction of an airmail plane.

The bloody sergeant snaffled our whole issue of booze, dammit.

The company's issues have included bonds, stocks, and other securities.

How if there were no centre at all, but just one alley after another, and the whole world a labyrinth without end or issue?

The issue of the directive from the treasury prompted the central bank's most recent issue of currency.

Issues and fontanels were supposed remedies for joint diseases, pulmonary tuberculosis, and other chronic conditions.

Congress delegated the issue of US currency to the Federal Reserve in 1913.

The uniform was standard prison issue.

The company's stock issue diluted his ownership.

Please stand by. We are having technical issues.

The issue before the court is whether participation in a group blog makes the plaintiff a public figure under the relevant statute.

For chrissakes, John, don't make an issue out of it. Just sleep on the floor if you want.

She has daddy issues, mommy issues, drug issues, money issues, trust issues, printer issues... I'm just sayin', girl's got issues.

The eternal happiness or misery of the departed saint depended on the issue of this contest between the powers of good and evil for the possession of his mortal remains.

Related words


synonyms

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

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

related terms

exit

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.

(archaic) To end up as, to turn out being, to become as a result.

(law) 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.

Examples


The water issued forth from the spring.

The rents issuing from the land permitted him to live as a man of independent means.

...thy sons that shall issue from thee...

There was a very light off-shore wind and scarcely any breakers, so that the approach to the shore was continued without finding bottom; yet though we were already quite close, we saw no indication of any indention in the coast from which even a tiny brooklet might issue, and certainly no mouth of a large river such as this must necessarily be to freshen the ocean even two hundred yards from shore.

A powerful current of warm breath issued at regular intervals from the profound cavity of his mouth while in rhythmic resonance the loud strong hale reverberations of his formidable heart thundered rumblingly […]

The men issued from the town and attacked the besiegers.

The road issues into the highway.

But, for Livy, Roman patriotism is overriding, and this issues, of course, in an antiquarian attention to the city's origins.

And let his foes like flockes of feareful Roes,Purſude by hunters, flie his angry lookes,That I may ſee him iſſue Conquerour.

The Federal Reserve issues US dollars.

The prison issued new uniforms for the inmates.

The court issued a writ of mandamus.

Five minutes later, Southampton tried to mount their first attack, but Wickham sabotaged the move by tripping the rampaging Nathaniel Clyne, prompting the referee, Andre Marriner, to issue a yellow card. That was a lone blemish on an otherwise tidy start by Poyet’s team – until, that is, the 12th minute, when Vergini produced a candidate for the most ludicrous own goal in Premier League history.

Related words


synonyms

(to give out): begive

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