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As nouns the difference between issue and remark

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 remark is act of pointing out or attentively noticing; notice or observation.

As verbs the difference between issue and remark

is that issue is to pass or flow out; to run out, as from any enclosed place while remark is to make a remark or remarks; to comment.

issue

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • 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 ,
  • Why had I not with charitable hand
    Took up a beggar's issue at my gates
  • 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.
  • * {{quote-book
  • , year = 1611 , title = , section = , passage = And, behold, a woman, which was diseased with an issue of blood twelve years, came behind him, and touched the hem of his garment: }}
  • An opening or outlet, providing for an exit or egress.
  • * 1881 , :
  • How if there were no centre at all, but just one alley after another, and the whole world a labyrinth without end or issue ?
  • (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
  • Come forth to view / The issue of the exploit.
  • * Shakespeare
  • While it is hot, I'll put it to the issue .
  • 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.
  • He has issues .
  • An instalment of a periodical; a specific instance of a regular publication
  • The July issue of the magazine is in shops now.

    Derived terms

    * feigned issue * general issue * reissue * side issue * wedge issue

    Verb

    (issu)
  • To pass or flow out; to run out, as from any enclosed place.
  • * 1918 , (Edgar Rice Burroughs), Chapter IV
  • 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.
  • * 1922 , (James Joyce), '' Episode 12, ''The Cyclops
  • 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...
  • 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
  • thy sons that shall issue from thee
  • 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:
  • But, for Livy, Roman patriotism is overriding, and this issues , of course, in an antiquarian attention to the city's origins.
  • (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.
  • * 2014 , , " 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 * issuer

    See also

    * (wikipedia "issue")

    References

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    Anagrams

    * ----

    remark

    English

    (Webster 1913)

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) remarquer, from ; see mark.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Act of pointing out or attentively noticing; notice or observation.
  • The expression, in speech or writing, of something remarked or noticed; the mention of that which is worthy of attention or notice; hence, also, a casual observation, comment, or statement; as, a pertinent remark.
  • * , chapter=3
  • , title= The Mirror and the Lamp , passage=One saint's day in mid-term a certain newly appointed suffragan-bishop came to the school chapel, and there preached on “The Inner Life.”  He at once secured attention by his informal method, and when presently the coughing of Jarvis […] interrupted the sermon, he altogether captivated his audience with a remark about cough lozenges being cheap and easily procurable.}}

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To make a remark or remarks; to comment.
  • To mark in a notable manner; to distinguish clearly; to make noticeable or conspicuous; to point out.
  • * Ford
  • Thou art a man remarked to taste a mischief.
  • * Milton
  • His manacles remark him; there he sits.
  • To take notice of, or to observe, mentally.
  • *
  • To express in words or writing, as observed or noticed; to state; to say; -- often with a substantive clause
  • He remarked that it was time to go.

    Etymology 2

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A mark that replaces another mark.
  • Verb

    (en verb)
  • To mark again (a piece of work).