issue

Meanings

Noun

• The action or an instance of flowing or coming out, an outflow, particularly:
• Someone or something that flows out or comes out, particularly:
• The means or opportunity by which something flows or comes out, particularly:
• The place where something flows or comes out, an outlet, particularly:
• The action or an instance of sending something out, particularly:
• Any question or situation to be resolved, particularly:
• The action or an instance of concluding something, particularly:
• The end result of an event or events, any result or outcome, particularly:
• The action or an instance of feeling some emotion.
• The action or an instance of leaving any state or condition.

Verb

• To flow out, to proceed from, to come out or from.
• To rush out, to sally forth.
• To extend into, to open onto.
• To turn out in a certain way, to result in.
• To come to a point in fact or law on which the parties join issue.
• To send out; to put into circulation.
• To deliver for use.
• To deliver by authority.

Related

Similar words

• sortie, sally; charge
• descendants, fruit of one's loins, offspring
• begive

Origin

• From Middle English issue, from Old French issue ("an exit, a way out"), feminine past participle of issir, from Latin exeō ("go out, exit"), from prefix ex- + eō.