Dictionary Definition
issue
Noun
1 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"
2 one of a series published periodically; "she
found an old issue of the magazine in her dentist's waitingroom"
[syn: number]
3 the provision of something by issuing it
(usually in quantity); "a new issue of stamps"; "the last issue of
penicillin was over a month ago" [syn: issuing, issuance]
4 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" [syn:
topic, subject, matter]
5 supplies (as food or clothing or ammunition)
issued by the government [syn: military
issue, government
issue]
6 the immediate descendants of a person; "she was
the mother of many offspring"; "he died without issue" [syn:
offspring, progeny]
7 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" [syn: consequence, effect, outcome, result, event, upshot]
8 the income arising from land or other property;
"the average return was about 5%" [syn: return, proceeds, take, takings, yield, payoff]
9 the becoming visible; "not a day's difference
between the emergence of the andrenas and the opening of the willow
catkins" [syn: emergence, egress]
10 an opening that permits escape or release; "he
blocked the way out"; "the canyon had only one issue" [syn:
exit, outlet, way out]
11 the act of issuing printed materials [syn:
publication]
Verb
1 prepare and issue for public distribution or
sale; "publish a magazine or newspaper" [syn: publish, bring out,
put out,
release]
2 circulate or distribute or equip with; "issue a
new uniform to the children"; "supply blankets for the beds" [syn:
supply] [ant: recall]
3 bring out an official document (such as a
warrant)
4 come out of; "Water issued from the hole in the
wall"; "The words seemed to come out by themselves" [syn: emerge, come out,
come
forth, go forth,
egress]
5 make out and issue; "write out a check"; "cut a
ticket"; "Please make the check out to me" [syn: write out,
make
out, cut]
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Etymology
From issue, eissue (a way out or exit), from exire, go out, from prefix ex-, out of plus ire go.Pronunciation
- /ˈɪsju/ or /ˈɪʃu/
Noun
- The act of passing or flowing out; a moving out from any enclosed 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Progeny; a child or children; offspring. In law, sometimes, in a general sense, all persons descended from a common ancestor; all lineal descendants.
- Member of a Mestee group originating in Amherst County, VA. The Issues are now known as the Monacan Indians.
- 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.
- A discharge of flux, as of blood. Matt. ix. 20.
- 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.
- The final outcome or result; upshot; conclusion; event; hence, contest; test; trial.
- 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.
- 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. At issue, in controversy; disputed; opposing or contesting; hence, at variance; disagreeing; inconsistent.
- A financial instrument in a company, such as a bond, stock or other security; the emission of such an instrument.
- Euphemism for "problem" or "concern,"
- "He has health issues."
See also
- italbrac-colon law General issue; Feigned issue
Translations
The act of passing or flowing out; a moving out
from any inclosed place; egress
- Finnish: ulosvirtaaminen, ulosvirtaus
- Portuguese: fluxo
he act of sending out, or causing to go forth;
delivery; issuance
- Portuguese: emissão
Progeny; a child or children; offspring
- Portuguese: herdeiros , descendente
Produce of the earth, or profits of land,
tenements, or other property
A discharge of flux
(medicine) An artificial ulcer
The final outcome or result; upshot; conclusion;
event; hence, contest; test; trial
- Finnish: lopputulos
- Portuguese: resultado,fim
A point in debate or controversy on which the
parties take affirmative and negative positions
(law) 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
(finance) A financial instrument in a company,
such as a bond, stock or other security; the emission of such an
instrument
- Finnish: liikkeeseenlaskeminen, anti
Verb
- To pass or flow out; to run out, as from any enclosed place.
- To go out; to rush out; to sally forth; as, troops issued from the town, and attacked the besiegers.
- To proceed, as from a source; as, water issues from springs; light issues from the sun.
- To proceed, as progeny; to be derived; to be descended; to spring.
- To extend; to pass or open; as, the path issues into the highway.
- 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.
- To close; to end; to terminate; to turn out; as, we know not how the cause will issue.
- In pleading, to come to a point in fact or law, on which the parties join issue.
- To send out; to put into circulation; as, to issue notes from a bank.
- To deliver for use; as, to issue provisions.
- To send out officially; to deliver by authority; as, to issue an order; to issue a writ.
Translations
To go out; to rush out; to sally forth
To proceed, as from a source; as, water issues
from springs; light issues from the sun
To proceed, as progeny; to be derived; to be
descended; to spring
To extend; to pass or open
To be produced as an effect or result; to grow
or accrue; to arise; to proceed
To close; to end; to terminate; to turn
out
(law) In pleading, to come to a point in fact or
law, on which the parties join issue
To send out; to put into circulation
- Finnish: laskea liikkeelle
To deliver for use
- Finnish: jakaa
To send out officially; to deliver by authority
References
- 1913}}
French
Pronunciation
Extensive Definition
Issue may refer to:
- A single instance of a serial publication, such as a journal, magazine or newspaper
- An instance of raising funds through financial instruments
- Issue (legal), a legal term with several meanings
- An old term for offspring
- An old term for menstruation or other bodily discharge (e.g. in Bible verse |Leviticus|13|HE)
- Issue (computers), a unit of work to accomplish an improvement in a data system
- @issue, Canadian talk show
- Issue tracking system, computer software
The plural issues may refer to:
- An old term for the Monacan Indians of Virginia, from being regarded as the issue of triracial mixing.
- Issues (album), 1999 album by Korn
issue in French: Sortie
issue in Simple English: Issue
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
accomplishment, accord, activity, administer, affair, afford, airing, allot, allow, announce, answer, appear, argue, arise, artifact, ascertainment, at issue,
attend, award, back number, bail out,
bandying, basis, be born, be off, become, become manifest, become
of, become public, become visible, bench mark, bestow, bestow on, bestrew, birth, bone of contention,
book, brainchild, break, break cover, break forth,
break out, break through, breakout, breed, bring out, broadcast, broadcasting, brood, bruiting, bruiting about,
burden, burst forth, buzz
about, by-product, campaign, cardinal point,
case, catechism, cause, chapter, chief thing, child, children, circulate, circulation, circumfuse, clearing up,
climax, coinage, collection, come, come about, come after, come
forth, come forward, come in sight, come of, come out, come to be,
come to hand, come to light, commitment, communicate, composition, concern, conclusion, concoction, confer, consequence, consequent, consummation, contend, controversy, copy, core, cornerstone, corollary, course, cracking, creation, creature, crisis, critical point, crop out,
crop up, cross-interrogatory, cross-question, crowning achievement,
crusade, crux, culmination, daughters, deal, deal out, debating point,
debouch, debouchment, decipherment, declaration
of policy, declare,
decoding, deliver, deliverance, delivery, demand, demonetize, denouement, derivation, derivative, descendants, descent, determination, devaluate, devalue, develop, development, diffract, diffuse, diffusion, disagree, disburse, discharge, disembogue, disentanglement, dish
out, dispense, disperse, displace, display, dispose, dispread, dispute, disseminate, dissemination, distillate, distillation, distribute, distribution, diverge, dole, dole out, donate, drive, ebb, edition, effect, efflux, effuse, egress, emanate, emanation, emerge, emergence, emersion, emission, emit, end, end product, end result,
engrave, ensue, enter, erupt, escape, escapism, essence, essential, essential matter,
evasion, event, eventuality, eventuate, eventuation, evulgation, exit, explanation, extend, extract, extrication, extrude, extrusion, fade in, faith, fall out, family, fan out, fare, feeler, fight, find vent, finding, finding-out, flight, float, flood, flotation, flow, flow back, flow in, flow out,
flush, fly about, focus of
attention, focus of interest, folks, follow, follow after, follow up,
fork out, freeing,
fruit, fundamental, get, get about, get abroad, get
afloat, get around, get exposure, get off, get out, get to be,
getaway, gift, gift with, gist, give, give forth, give freely, give
off, give out, go about, go after, go forth, go public, go the
rounds, grandchildren, grant, gravamen, great cause, great
point, great-grandchildren, gush, hand out, handiwork, harvest, have currency, have
origin, head, heading, heap, heart, hearth, heave in sight, hectograph, heirs, help to, high point,
homefolks, hostages to
fortune, house, household, impart, important thing, impress, impression, imprint, in dispute, inheritors, inquiry, interest, interpretation, interrogation, interrogative, interrogatory, invention, irrupt, issuance, issue forth, issue
stock, issuing, jailbreak, jump out, kernel, keynote address, keynote
speech, keystone,
kids, landmark, lavish, leader, leading question,
leak, leak out, leakage, legacy, let have, liberation, library, library edition,
lifework, lineage, little ones, living
issue, logical outcome, look forth, loom, main point, main thing,
make, manufacture, mass movement,
masterpiece,
masterwork, material
point, materialize,
matter, matter in hand,
measure out, meat, menage, mete, mete out, milestone, mimeograph, mintage, moot point, motif, motive, movement, multigraph, new generation,
new mintage, nub, number, nut, offer, offshoot, offspring, ooze out, opera, oppose, opus, opuscule, originate, origination, outcome, outcrop, outflow, outgoing, outgrowth, outlet, outset, outstart, overprint, overscatter, oversow, overspread, overtake, pan out, parcel out,
party platform, pass around, pay out, peep out, people, periodical, pith, pivot, plank, platform, point, point at issue, point in
question, portion out, posterity, pour, precipitate, present, principle, print, printing, prisonbreak, problem, proceed, proclaim, proclamation, product, production, proffer, progeniture, progeny, program, promulgate, promulgation, proof, propagate, propagation, protrude, prove, prove to be, publication, publish, publishing, pull, pull a proof, put forth, put
out, put to bed, put to press, query, question, question at issue,
question mark, quodlibet, radiate, rain, real issue, rear its head,
reason, reason for being,
regurgitate,
reissue, release, remonetize, render, replace, reprint, rescue, resolution, resolving, result, resultant, retail, revalue, riddance, riddling, rise, rising generation, rubric, run out, rush, salient point, sally, sally forth, scatter, school edition,
scions, see the light,
seed, send forth, sequel, sequela, sequence, sequent, series, serve, set, set forth, set forward, set
off, set out, setting-free, shell out, show, show up, shower, sine qua non, slip, snow, solution, solving, sons, sorting out, sow, sow broadcast, splay, spoon out, spread, spread about, spread like
wildfire, spread out, spreading, spreading abroad,
spring, spring up,
stamp, start, start off, start out,
stem, stock issue, stream, stream forth, strew, strike, strike out, strike the
eye, subject, subject
matter, subject of thought, substance, substantive point,
succeed, succession, supervene, surface, surfacing, surge, surge back, take birth,
take exception, take issue, take rise, telecasting, tender, terminate, text, the bottom line, the point,
theme, throw off, topic, track, trade book, trade edition,
trail, treasures, trend, trial balloon, turn out,
turn up, turning point, uncertain, unfold, unraveling, unresolved, unriddling, unscrambling, unsettled, unspinning, untangling, untwisting, unweaving, upshot, utter, vent, ventilation, version, vexed question,
volume, vouchsafe, work, work out, working, working-out, yield, young, younglings, youngsters