 |
 |
Definition of Issue
Is´sue Pronunciation: ĭsh´ũ | n. | 1. | | | 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. | | 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. | | 7. | (Med.) 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. | | 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; a point of contention; a matter in controversy. | | 10. | (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. See General issue, under General, and Feigned issue, under Feigned. | | v. i. | 1. | To pass or flow out; to run out, as from any inclosed place. | | 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. | | 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) In pleading, to come to a point in fact or law, on which the parties join issue. | | 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. |
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, circulation, circumfuse, clearing up, climax, coinage, collection, 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, conclusion, concoction, confer, consequence, consequent, consummation, contend, controversy, 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, distribution, diverge, dole, dole out, donate, drive, ebb, effect, efflux, effuse, egress, 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 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, nut, offer, offshoot, offspring, ooze out, opera, oppose, opus, opuscule, 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, proclaim, proclamation, product, production, proffer, progeniture, progeny, program, promulgate, promulgation, proof, propagate, propagation, protrude, prove, prove to be, publication, publishing, pull, pull a proof, put forth, put out, put to bed, put to press, query, 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, 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
|
 |
|
Search
Word:
Browse
|
|
 |