Issue

['ɪʃuː;'ɪsjuː] or ['ɪʃu]

Definition

(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'.

(noun.) the act of issuing printed materials.

(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'.

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

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

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

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

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

Checker: Mimi--From WordNet

Definition

(n.) 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.

(n.) 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.

(n.) 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.

(n.) Progeny; a child or children; offspring. In law, sometimes, in a general sense, all persons descended from a common ancestor; all lineal descendants.

(n.) 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.

(n.) A discharge of flux, as of blood.

(n.) 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.

(n.) The final outcome or result; upshot; conclusion; event; hence, contest; test; trial.

(n.) 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.

(n.) 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.) To pass or flow out; to run out, as from any inclosed place.

(v. i.) To go out; to rush out; to sally forth; as, troops issued from the town, and attacked the besiegers.

(v. i.) To proceed, as from a source; as, water issues from springs; light issues from the sun.

(v. i.) To proceed, as progeny; to be derived; to be descended; to spring.

(v. i.) To extend; to pass or open; as, the path issues into the highway.

(v. i.) 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.

(v. i.) To close; to end; to terminate; to turn out; as, we know not how the cause will issue.

(v. i.) In pleading, to come to a point in fact or law, on which the parties join issue.

(v. t.) To send out; to put into circulation; as, to issue notes from a bank.

(v. t.) To deliver for use; as, to issue provisions.

(v. t.) To send out officially; to deliver by authority; as, to issue an order; to issue a writ.

Edited by Leopold

Synonyms and Synonymous

n. [1]. Egress, exit, outlet, passage out.[2]. Delivering, delivery, sending out.[3]. Event, consequence, end, termination, conclusion, consummation, result, effect, outcome, upshot, DÉNOUEMENT, FINALE, final or ultimate result, final event, finishing stroke, winding up.[4]. Offspring, progeny, children, posterity, lineal descendants.[5]. (Med.) Fontanel, artificial ulcer.[6]. (Law.) Point in dispute.

v. a. [1]. Deliver, send out, put forth.[2]. Distribute, give out.[3]. Put into circulation.

v. n. [1]. Proceed, flow, emanate, arise, spring, originate, follow, ensue, come, take rise, be the effect, be derived, go forth, grow out, pass out, flow out, rush out.[2]. End, terminate, result.

Inputed by Brice

Synonyms and Antonyms

SYN:Effect, outcome, manifestation, end, result, progeny, posterity, conclusion,consequence, upshot, children, offspring

ANT:Cause, operation, working, principle, law, system, action, influence,origination, commencement, paternity, ancestry

Editor: Whitney

Definition

v.i. to go flow or come out: to proceed as from a source: to spring: to be produced: (law) to come to a point in fact or law: to terminate.—v.t. to send out: to put into circulation: to give out for use.—n. a going or flowing out: act of sending out: that which flows or passes out: fruit of the body children: produce profits: circulation as of bank-notes: publication as of a book: a giving out for use: ultimate result consequence: (law) the point of fact in dispute which is submitted to a jury: (med.) an ulcer produced artificially.—adj. Iss′uable capable of issuing admitting of an issue.—n. Iss′uance act of giving out promulgation.—adjs. Iss′uant (her.) issuing or coming up from another as a charge or bearing; Iss′ueless without issue: childless.—n. Iss′uer one who issues or emits.—At issue in quarrel or controversy; Feigned issue (law) an issue made up for trial by agreement of the parties or by an order of court instead of by the ordinary legal procedure; General issue a simple denial of the whole charge as 'Not guilty ' instead of a Special issue an issue taken by denying a particular part of the allegations; Immaterial issue an issue which is not decisive of any part of the litigation as opp. to a Material issue one which necessarily involves some part of the rights in controversy.—Join or Take issue of the two parties taking up the affirmative and the negative on the point in debate.

Typist: Miguel