issue
//ˈɪʃuː//
Forms
- Plural
- issues
- present (v1)
- issue
- past (v2)
- issued
- past participle (v3)
- issued
- present participle
- issuing
- 3rd person singular
- issues
Definitions
1.The action or an instance of flowing or coming out, an outflow
- 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.
2.Someone or something that flows out or comes out
- Yeah, I just got the June issue of Wombatboy.
- The bloody sergeant snaffled our whole issue of booze, dammit.
- The company's issues have included bonds, stocks, and other securities.
3.The means or opportunity by which something flows or comes out, particularly
4.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.
1.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.
2.To rush out, to sally forth.
- The men issued from the town and attacked the besiegers.
3.To extend into, to open onto.
- The road issues into the highway.
4.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.
Frequency
Overall
Very common· #261
By learning goal
- Everyday conversation
- Common
- General reading & writing
- Very common
- Academic
- Common
- Literature
- Rare
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Synonyms
Etymology
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”).