Issue vs Question - What's the difference?
issue | question | Synonyms |
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
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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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A sentence, phrase or word which asks for information, reply or response; an interrogative.
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A doubt or challenge about the truth or accuracy of a matter.
* Bible, John iii. 25
* Francis Bacon
A proposal to a meeting as a topic for deliberation.
interrogation by torture
* Macaulay
(obsolete) Talk; conversation; speech.
To ask questions of; interrogate; enquire; ask for information.
* Francis Bacon
To raise doubts about; have doubts about.
(obsolete) To argue; to converse; to dispute.
* Shakespeare
Question is a synonym of issue.
As nouns the difference between issue and question
is that 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 while question is a sentence, phrase or word which asks for information, reply or response; an interrogative.As verbs the difference between issue and question
is that issue is to pass or flow out; to run out, as from any enclosed place while question is to ask questions of; interrogate; enquire; ask for information.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
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English
(wikipedia question)Alternative forms
* (archaic)Noun
(en noun)Mr. Pratt's Patients, passage=I told him about everything I could think of; and what I couldn't think of he did. He asked about six questions' during my yarn, but every ' question had a point to it. At the end he bowed and thanked me once more. As a thanker he was main-truck high; I never see anybody so polite.}}
- The story is true beyond question .
- He obeyed without question .
- There arose a question between some of John's disciples and the Jews about purifying.
- It is to be to question , whether it be lawful for Christian princes to make an invasive war simply for the propagation of the faith.
- The Scottish privy council had power to put state prisoners to the question .
- Made she no verbal question ? Shakespeare King Lear ca. 1606
Synonyms
* inquiry, enquiry, query, subject, topic, problem, issue, consideration, interrogation, doubt, motion, proposition, proposalDerived terms
* a question of * begging the question * beyond question * bonus question * call into question * chicken-or-egg question * closed-ended question * cross-question * essay question * federal question * in question * indirect question * frequently asked questions/FAQ * leading question * loaded question * multiple-choice question * no questions asked * open question * open-ended question * out of the question * pop the question * previous question * questionable * questionist * questionless * questionnaire * question mark * question-master * question sheet * question time * reverse question * rhetorical question * scaled question * tag question * toss-up question * West Lothian question * yes-no questionVerb
- He that questioneth much shall learn much.
- I pray you, think you question with the Jew.