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Issue is a related term of strain.


As nouns the difference between issue and strain

is that issue is a monacan indian; a member of a mestee group originating in amherst county, virginia while strain is (obsolete) treasure or strain can be the act of straining, or the state of being strained.

As a verb strain is

(obsolete) to hold tightly, to clasp.

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

    *

    Anagrams

    * ----

    strain

    English

    (wikipedia strain)

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) (m), (m), (m), .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (obsolete) Treasure.
  • (obsolete) The blood-vessel in the yolk of an egg.
  • (archaic) Race; lineage, pedigree.
  • * Shakespeare
  • He is of a noble strain .
  • * Darwin
  • With animals and plants a cross between different varieties, or between individuals of the same variety but of another strain , gives vigour and fertility to the offspring.
  • Hereditary character, quality, or disposition.
  • There is a strain of madness in her family.
  • * Tillotson
  • Intemperance and lust breed diseases, which, propogated, spoil the strain of nation.
  • A tendency or disposition.
  • (literary) Any sustained note or movement; a song; a distinct portion of an ode or other poem; also, the pervading note, or burden, of a song, poem, oration, book, etc.; theme; motive; manner; style
  • (biology) A particular breed or race of animal, microbe etc.
  • They say this year's flu virus is a particularly virulent strain .
  • (music) A portion of music divided off by a double bar; a complete musical period or sentence; a movement, or any rounded subdivision of a movement.
  • (rare) A kind or sort (of person etc.).
  • * Dryden
  • the common strain

    Etymology 2

    From (etyl) estreindre (whence French .

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (obsolete) To hold tightly, to clasp.
  • * 1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , III.ii:
  • So hauing said, her twixt her armes twaine / She straightly straynd , and colled tenderly [...].
  • * Dryden
  • Evander with a close embrace / Strained his departing friend.
  • To apply a force or forces to by stretching out.
  • to strain''' a rope; to '''strain the shrouds of a ship
    Relations between the United States and Guatemala traditionally have been close, although at times strained by human rights and civil/military issues.
  • To damage by drawing, stretching, or the exertion of force.
  • The gale strained the timbers of the ship.
  • To act upon, in any way, so as to cause change of form or volume, as when bending a beam.
  • To exert or struggle (to do something), especially to stretch (one's senses, faculties etc.) beyond what is normal or comfortable.
  • Sitting in back, I strained to hear the speaker.
  • * Shakespeare
  • To build his fortune I will strain a little.
  • * Shakespeare
  • He sweats, / Strains his young nerves.
  • * Dryden
  • They strain their warbling throats / To welcome in the spring.
  • * 1898 , , (Moonfleet) Chapter 4
  • Thus my plight was evil indeed, for I had nothing now to burn to give me light, and knew that 'twas no use setting to grout till I could see to go about it. Moreover, the darkness was of that black kind that is never found beneath the open sky, no, not even on the darkest night, but lurks in close and covered places and strains the eyes in trying to see into it.
  • To stretch beyond its proper limit; to do violence to, in terms of intent or meaning.
  • to strain the law in order to convict an accused person
  • * Jonathan Swift
  • There can be no other meaning in this expression, however some may pretend to strain it.
  • To tighten (the strings of a musical instrument); to uplift (one’s voice).
  • To separate solid from liquid by passing through a strainer or colander
  • To percolate; to be filtered.
  • water straining through a sandy soil
  • To make uneasy or unnatural; to produce with apparent effort; to force; to constrain.
  • * Denham
  • He talks and plays with Fatima, but his mirth / Is forced and strained .
  • * Shakespeare
  • The quality of mercy is not strained .
  • To urge with importunity; to press.
  • to strain a petition or invitation
  • * Shakespeare
  • Note, if your lady strain his entertainment.

    Noun

  • The act of straining, or the state of being strained.
  • * {{quote-magazine, year=2013, month=September-October, author= Michael Sivak
  • , magazine=(American Scientist), title= Will AC Put a Chill on the Global Energy Supply? , passage=Nevertheless, it is clear that the global energy demand for air-conditioning will grow substantially as nations become more affluent,
  • A violent effort; an excessive and hurtful exertion or tension, as of the muscles.
  • An injury resulting from violent effort; a sprain.
  • * {{quote-news, year=2011, date=April 11, author=Phil McNulty, work=BBC Sport
  • , title= Liverpool 3-0 Man City , passage=Dirk Kuyt sandwiched a goal in between Carroll's double as City endured a night of total misery, with captain Carlos Tevez limping off early on with a hamstring strain that puts a serious question mark over his participation in Saturday's FA Cup semi-final against Manchester United at Wembley.}}
  • A dimensionless measure of object deformation either referring to engineering strain or true strain.
  • (label) The track of a deer.
  • * 1624 , John Smith, Generall Historie , in Kupperman 1988, p. 145:
  • When they have shot a Deere by land, they follow him like bloud-hounds by the bloud, and straine , and oftentimes so take them.