Obtain vs Issue - What's the difference?
obtain | issue |
To get hold of; to gain possession of, to procure; to acquire, in any way.
* 1526 , (William Tyndale), trans. Bible , Luke XVIII:
* 1814 , (Jane Austen), (Mansfield Park) :
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* 1722 , (Daniel Defoe), (Colonel Jack) :
(obsolete) To prevail, be victorious; to succeed.
* 1590 , (Edmund Spenser), (The Faerie Queene) , III.2:
* 1701 , (Jonathan Swift), Contests and Dissentions in Athens and Rome :
(obsolete) To hold; to keep, possess or occupy.
* 1671 , (John Milton), (Paradise Regained) , Book I:
To exist or be the case; to hold true, be in force.
* 1908 , (Jack London), (The Iron Heel) , ,
* 1992 , (Neal Stephenson), (Snow Crash) , Bantam Spectra, p. 460,
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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As a verb obtain
is to get hold of; to gain possession of, to procure; to acquire, in any way.As a noun issue is
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English
Verb
(en verb)- And a certayne ruler axed him: sayinge: Goode Master: what ought I to do, to obtaine eternall lyfe?
- Julia was quite as eager for novelty and pleasure as Maria, though she might not have struggled through so much to obtain them, and could better bear a subordinate situation.
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- he was condemned to die for the felony, and being so well known for an old offender, had certainly died, but the merchant, upon his earnest application, had obtained that he should be transported, on condition that he restored all the rest of his bills, which he had done accordingly.
- “O daughter deare!” (said she) “despeire no whit; / For never sore but might a salve obtain [...].”
- This, though it failed at present, yet afterward obtained , and was a mighty step to the ruin of the commonwealth.
- His mother then is mortal, but his Sire / He who obtains the monarchy of Heav'n, / And what will he not do to advance his Son?
- Even though the Pervaise confession had never come to light, no reasonable doubt could obtain ; for the act in question was on a par with countless other acts committed by the oligarchs, and, before them, by the capitalists.
- But the hostage situation no longer obtains , and so Uncle Enzo feels it important to stop Rife now,
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.
