Phenomenon vs Issue - What's the difference?
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An observable fact or occurrence or a kind of observable fact or occurrence.
* 1900 , , The Making of Religion , ch. 1:
* 2007 , "
Appearance; a perceptible aspect of something that is mutable.
* 1662 , Thomas Salusbury (translator), Galileo's Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief Systems of the World , First Day:
A fact or event considered very unusual, curious, or astonishing by those who witness it.
* 1816 , , The Antiquary—Volume I , ch. 18:
A wonderful or very remarkable person or thing.
* 1839 , , Nicholas Nickleby , ch. 23:
* 1888 , , "The Phantom Rickshaw":
An experienced object whose constitution reflects the order and conceptual structure imposed upon it by the human mind (especially by the powers of perception and understanding).
* 1900 , , "Comparison of Some Views of Spencer and Kant," Mind , vol. 9, no. 34, p. 234:
* 1912 , , "Is There a Cognitive Relation?" The Journal of Philosophy, Psychology and Scientific Methods , vol. 9, no. 9, p. 232:
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.
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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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As nouns the difference between phenomenon and issue
is that phenomenon is an observable fact or occurrence or a kind of observable fact or occurrence while issue is 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.As a verb issue is
to pass or flow out; to run out, as from any enclosed place.phenomenon
English
(wikipedia phenomenon)Alternative forms
* phaenomenon, (archaic) * phainomenon * (qualifier)Noun
(phenomena)- The Indians, making a hasty inference from a trivial phenomenon , arrived unawares at a probably correct conclusion.
Ask the Experts: Hurricanes," USA Today , 7 Nov. (retrieved 16 Jan. 2009):
- Hurricanes are a meteorological phenomenon .
- I verily believe that in the Moon there are no rains, for if Clouds should gather in any part thereof, as they do about the Earth, they would thereupon hide from our sight some of those things, which we with the Telescope behold in the Moon, and in a word, would some way or other change its Phœnomenon .
- The phenomenon of a huge blazing fire, upon the opposite bank of the glen, again presented itself to the eye of the watchman. . . . He resolved to examine more nearly the object of his wonder.
- "This, sir," said Mr Vincent Crummles, bringing the maiden forward, "this is the infant phenomenon —Miss Ninetta Crummles."
- But, all the same, you're a phenomenon', and as queer a ' phenomenon as you are a blackguard.
- Every "phenomenon " must be, at any rate, partly subjective or dependent on the subject.
- The Kantian phenomenon is the real as we are compelled to think it.
Usage notes
* The universal, common, modern spelling of this term is (term). Of the , phaenomenon, ,). * By far the most common and universally accepted plural form is the classical phenomena; the Anglicised phenomenons is also sometimes used. The plural form (term) is frequently misused in the singular. Arising from this misuse, the double plurals phenomenas and phenomenae, as well as a form employing the greengrocer’s apostrophe — — are seen in non-standard use; they are erroneous.Synonyms
* (observable fact or occurrence) event * marvel, miracle, oddity, wonder * (wonderful person or thing) marvel, miracle, phenom, prodigy, wonderAntonyms
* noumenon, thing-in-itselfDerived terms
* phenomExternal links
* * English nouns with irregular pluralsissue
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.