Issue vs Free - What's the difference?
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The act of passing or flowing out; a moving out from any enclosed 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.
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.
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.
Progeny; a child or children; offspring. In law, sometimes, in a general sense, all persons descended from a common ancestor; all lineal descendants.
* 1599 ,
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.
A discharge of flux, as of blood.
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An opening or outlet, providing for an exit or egress.
* 1881 , :
(medicine) 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.
The final outcome or result; upshot; conclusion; event; hence, contest; test; trial.
* Shakespeare
* Shakespeare
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.
(legal) 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.
(finance) A financial instrument in a company, such as a bond, stock or other security; the emission of such an instrument.
(euphemistic) A problem or concern, usually of a mental nature.
An instalment of a periodical; a specific instance of a regular publication
To pass or flow out; to run out, as from any enclosed place.
* 1918 , (Edgar Rice Burroughs), Chapter IV
* 1922 , (James Joyce), '' Episode 12, ''The Cyclops
To go out; to rush out; to sally forth; as, troops issued from the town, and attacked the besiegers.
To proceed, as from a source; as, water issues from springs; light issues from the sun.
To proceed, as progeny; to be derived; to be descended; to spring.
* Bible, 2 Kings xx. 18
To extend; to pass or open; as, the path issues into the highway.
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.
To turn out (in a given way); to have a specified issue or result, to result (in).
* 2007 , John Burrow, A History of Histories , Penguin 2009, p. 171:
(legal) In pleading, to come to a point in fact or law, on which the parties join issue.
To send out; to put into circulation; as, to issue notes from a bank.
To deliver for use; as, to issue provisions.
To send out officially; to deliver by authority; as, to issue an order; to issue a writ.
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(label) Unconstrained.
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# Not imprisoned or enslaved.
# Unconstrained by timidity or distrust; unreserved; frank; communicative.
#* Milward
# Generous; liberal.
# (label) Clear of offence or crime; guiltless; innocent.
#* (John Dryden) (1631-1700)
# Without obligations.
# Thrown open, or made accessible, to all; to be enjoyed without limitations; unrestricted; not obstructed, engrossed, or appropriated; open; said of a thing to be possessed or enjoyed.
#* (William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)
# Not arbitrary or despotic; assuring liberty; defending individual rights against encroachment by any person or class; instituted by a free people; said of a government, institutions, etc.
# (label) With no or only freedom-preserving limitations on distribution or modification.
# (label) Intended for release, as opposed to a checked version.
Obtainable without any payment.
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# Obtainable without additional payment, as a bonus given when paying for something else.
(label) Unconstrained.
# (label) Unconstrained by relators.
# Unconstrained by quantifiers.
# (label) Of identifiers, not bound.
# That can be used by itself, unattached to another morpheme.
(label) Unconstrained.
# Unobstructed, without blockages.
# Unattached or uncombined.
# Not currently in use; not taken; unoccupied.
# Not attached; loose.
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Without; not containing (what is specified); exempt; clear; liberated.
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(label) Ready; eager; acting without spurring or whipping; spirited.
(label) Invested with a particular freedom or franchise; enjoying certain immunities or privileges; admitted to special rights; followed by of .
* (John Dryden) (1631-1700)
Certain or honourable; the opposite of base .
(label) Privileged or individual; the opposite of common .
Without needing to pay.
(obsolete) Freely; willingly.
* Shakespeare
To make free; set at liberty; release; rid of that which confines, limits, embarrasses, or oppresses.
(Australian rules football, Gaelic football) Abbreviation of free kick.
* 2006 , [http://footballlegends.org/daryn_cresswell.htm]:
free transfer
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, passage=Hargreaves, who left Manchester United on a free during the summer, drilled a 22-yard beauty to open the scoring.}}
(hurling) The usual means of restarting play after a foul is committed, where the non-offending team restarts from where the foul was committed.
As nouns the difference between issue and free
is that issue is a monacan indian; a member of a mestee group originating in amherst county, virginia while free is (australian rules football|gaelic football) abbreviation of free kick.As an adjective free is
(label) unconstrained.As an adverb free is
without needing to pay.As a verb free is
to make free; set at liberty; release; rid of that which confines, limits, embarrasses, or oppresses.issue
English
Noun
(en noun)- Why had I not with charitable hand
- Took up a beggar's issue at my gates
- How if there were no centre at all, but just one alley after another, and the whole world a labyrinth without end or issue ?
- Come forth to view / The issue of the exploit.
- While it is hot, I'll put it to the issue .
- He has issues .
- The July issue of the magazine is in shops now.
Derived terms
* feigned issue * general issue * reissue * side issue * wedge issueVerb
(issu)- There was a very light off-shore wind and scarcely any breakers, so that the approach to the shore was continued without finding bottom; yet though we were already quite close, we saw no indication of any indention in the coast from which even a tiny brooklet might issue , and certainly no mouth of a large river such as this must necessarily be to freshen the ocean even two hundred yards from shore.
- A powerful current of warm breath issued at regular intervals from the profound cavity of his mouth while in rhythmic resonance the loud strong hale reverberations of his formidable heart thundered rumblingly...
- thy sons that shall issue from thee
- But, for Livy, Roman patriotism is overriding, and this issues , of course, in an antiquarian attention to the city's origins.
Southampton hammer eight past hapless Sunderland in barmy encounter", The Guardian , 18 October 2014:
- Five minutes later, Southampton tried to mount their first attack, but Wickham sabotaged the move by tripping the rampaging Nathaniel Clyne, prompting the referee, Andre Marriner, to issue a yellow card. That was a lone blemish on an otherwise tidy start by Poyet’s team – until, that is, the 12th minute, when Vergini produced a candidate for the most ludicrous own goal in Premier League history.
Synonyms
* (to give out) (l)Derived terms
* issuable * issuerSee also
* (wikipedia "issue")References
*Anagrams
* ----free
English
Adjective
(er)- He was free only with a few.
- My hands are guilty, but my heart is free .
- Why, sir, I pray, are not the streets as free / For me as for you?
- Furthermore, the free anterior margin of the lobule is arched toward the lobe and is often involute
- princes declaring themselves free from the obligations of their treaties
- He therefore makes all birds, of every sect, / Free of his farm.
- (Burrill)
- (Burrill)
Synonyms
* (obtainable without payment) free of charge, gratis * (unconstrained) unconstrained, unfettered, unhindered * (unobstructed) clear, unobstructed * libre * (without) without * unboundAntonyms
* (not imprisoned or enslaved) bound, enslaved, imprisoned * (unconstrained) constrained, restricted * bound * (unobstructed) blocked, obstructed * bound * proprietary softwareDerived terms
* -free * free Abelian group, free abelian group * free algebra * free and clear * free and easy * free as a bird * freeball * freebooter * free fall * free group * freelance * freeloader * free lunch * freely * free market * free marketeer * Freemason * free module * free object * free of charge * free rein * free ride * free rider * free semigroup * free speech * free spirit * free-spoken * free-thinker * free time * free variable * free vote * freeware * freeway * freewheel * free will * unfreeAdverb
(en adverb)- I got this bike free .
- I as free forgive you / As I would be forgiven.
Synonyms
* for free, for nothingVerb
(d)Hyponyms
* emancipate * liberate * manumit * release * unchain * unfetterNoun
(en noun)- Whether deserved or not, the free' gave Cresswell the chance to cover himself in glory with a shot on goal after the siren.