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English noun: issue | |||
| 1. | issue (cognition) an important question that is in dispute and must be settled | ||
| Samples | The issue could be settled by requiring public education for everyone. Politicians never discuss the real issues. | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | cognitive content, content, mental object | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | bread-and-butter issue, gut issue, hot-button issue, paramount issue, pocketbook issue, quodlibet | ||
| 2. | issue (communication) one of a series published periodically | ||
| Samples | She found an old issue of the magazine in her dentist's waiting room. | ||
| Synonyms | number | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | periodical | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | edition | ||
| Member meronym | serial, serial publication, series | ||
| 3. | issue (cognition) some situation or event that is thought about | ||
| Samples | He kept drifting off the topic. He had been thinking about the subject for several years. It is a matter for the police. | ||
| Synonyms | matter, subject, topic | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | cognitive content, content, mental object | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | area, blind spot, remit, res adjudicata, res judicata | ||
| 4. | issue (act) the act of providing an item for general use or for official purposes (usually in quantity) | ||
| Samples | A new issue of stamps. The last issue of penicillin was over a month ago. | ||
| Synonyms | issuance, issuing | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | provision, supply, supplying | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | stock issue | ||
| 5. | issue (possession) supplies (as food or clothing or ammunition) issued by the government | ||
| Synonyms | government issue, military issue | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | fund, stock, store | ||
| Domain category | armed forces, armed services, military, military machine, war machine | ||
| 6. | issue (possession) the income or profit arising from such transactions as the sale of land or other property | ||
| Samples | The average return was about 5%. | ||
| Synonyms | payoff, proceeds, return, take, takings, yield | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | income | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | economic rent, payback, rent | ||
| 7. | issue (phenomenon) a phenomenon that follows and is caused by some previous phenomenon | ||
| Samples | The magnetic effect was greater when the rod was lengthwise. His decision had depressing consequences for business. He acted very wise after the event. | ||
| Synonyms | consequence, effect, event, outcome, result, upshot | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | phenomenon | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | aftereffect, aftermath, backwash, bandwagon effect, branch, brisance, butterfly effect, by-product, byproduct, change, coattails effect, Coriolis effect, dent, domino effect, fallout, harvest, impact, influence, knock-on effect, materialisation, materialization, offset, offshoot, offspring, outgrowth, placebo effect, position effect, product, repercussion, response, reverberation, side effect, spillover, wake, wallop | ||
| 8. | issue (person) the immediate descendants of a person | ||
| Samples | She was the mother of many offspring. He died without issue. | ||
| Synonyms | offspring, progeny | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | relation, relative | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | baby, bastard, by-blow, child, eldest, firstborn, grandchild, heir, illegitimate, illegitimate child, kid, love child, successor, whoreson | ||
| 9. | issue (event) the becoming visible | ||
| Samples | Not a day's difference between the emergence of the andrenas and the opening of the willow catkins. | ||
| Synonyms | egress, emergence | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | beginning | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | dissilience, eruption | ||
| 10. | issue (artifact) an opening that permits escape or release | ||
| Samples | He blocked the way out. The canyon had only one issue. | ||
| Synonyms | exit, outlet, way out | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | opening | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | outfall | ||
| 11. | issue (act) the act of issuing printed materials | ||
| Synonyms | publication | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | printing | ||
English verb: issue | |||
| 1. | issue (communication) prepare and issue for public distribution or sale | ||
| Samples | Publish a magazine or newspaper. | ||
| Synonyms | bring out, publish, put out, release | ||
| Pattern of use | Somebody ----s something. Something ----s something | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | air, bare, publicise, publicize | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | edit | ||
| 2. | issue (social) circulate or distribute or equip with | ||
| Samples | Issue a new uniform to the children. Supply blankets for the beds. | ||
| Examples | They issue the money to them , They issue them the money | ||
| Synonyms | supply | ||
| Pattern of use | Somebody ----s something | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | distribute | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | free, free, reissue, release, release, unblock, unfreeze | ||
| Antonyms | recall | ||
| 3. | issue (communication) bring out an official document (such as a warrant) | ||
| Pattern of use | Somebody ----s something. Something ----s something | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | communicate, intercommunicate | ||
| 4. | issue (change) come out of | ||
| Samples | Water issued from the hole in the wall. The words seemed to come out by themselves. | ||
| Synonyms | come forth, come out, egress, emerge, go forth | ||
| Pattern of use | Something is ----ing PP. Somebody ----s PP | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | come out, debouch, escape, fall, fall out, leak, pop out, radiate | ||
| 5. | issue (communication) make out and issue | ||
| Samples | Write out a check. Cut a ticket. Please make the check out to me. | ||
| Examples | The banks issue the check | ||
| Synonyms | cut, make out, write out | ||
| Pattern of use | Somebody ----s something | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | write | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | check | ||
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