issue

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

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

2. 2

   Someone or something that flows out or comes out

   • For she doted upon their paramours, whose flesh is as the flesh of asses, and whose issue is like the issue of horses.
3. 3

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

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   1. 4

      The means or opportunity by which something flows or comes out

   2. 5

      The place where something flows or comes out, an outlet

      • How if there were no centre at all, but just one alley after another, and the whole world a labyrinth without end or issue?
   3. 6

      The action or an instance of sending something out, particularly

      • The issue of the directive from the treasury prompted the central bank's most recent issue of currency.
   4. 7

      The action or an instance of sending something out

      • Issues and fontanels were supposed remedies for joint diseases, pulmonary tuberculosis, and other chronic conditions.
   5. 8

      Any question or situation to be resolved, particularly

      • Please stand by. We are having technical issues.
   6. 9

      Any question or situation to be resolved

      • The issue before the court is whether participation in a group blog makes the plaintiff a public figure under the relevant statute.
   7. 10

      The action or an instance of concluding something

   8. 11

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

      • 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.
   9. 12

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

   10. 13

       The action or an instance of feeling some emotion.

   11. 14

       The action or an instance of leaving any state or condition.

   12. 15

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

       • 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...
   13. 16

       To rush out, to sally forth.

       • The men issued from the town and attacked the besiegers.
   14. 17

       To extend into, to open onto.

       • The road issues into the highway.
   15. 18

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

       • But, for Livy, Roman patriotism is overriding, and this issues, of course, in an antiquarian attention to the city's origins.
   16. 19

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

       • And let his foes like flockes of feareful Roes, Purſude by hunters, flie his angry lookes, That I may ſee him iſſue Conquerour.
   17. 20

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

   18. 21

       To send out

       To send out; to put into circulation.

       • The Federal Reserve issues US dollars.
   19. 22

       To deliver for use.

       • The prison issued new uniforms for the inmates.
   20. 23

       To deliver by authority.

       • The court issued a writ of mandamus.
   21. 24

       A Monacan Indian

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

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