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issue
English
Etymology
From Middle English issue, from Old French issue (“an exit, a way out”), feminine past participle of issir (“to exit”), from Latin exe? (“go out, exit”), from prefix ex- (“out”) + e? (“go”).
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) enPR: ?syo?o, ?sh(y)o?o, IPA(key): /??sju?/, /???(j)u?/
- (General American) enPR: ?sh(y)o?o, IPA(key): /???(j)u/
Noun
issue (plural issues)
- The action or an instance of flowing or coming out, an outflow, particularly:
- (military, obsolete) A movement of soldiers towards an enemy, a sortie.
- (medicine) The outflow of a bodily fluid, particularly (now rare) in abnormal amounts.
- The technique minimizes the issue of blood from the incision.
- Someone or something that flows out or comes out, particularly:
- (medicine, now rare) The bodily fluid drained through a natural or artificial issue.
- (now usually historical or law) Offspring: one's natural child or children.
- He died intestate and without issue, so the extended family have all lawyered up.
- (figuratively) Progeny: all one's lineal descendants.
- Although his own kingdom disappeared, his issue went on to rule a quarter of Europe.
- (figuratively, obsolete) A race of people considered as the descendants of some common ancestor.
- (now rare) The produce or income derived from farmland or rental properties.
- 3. A conveys to B all right to the real property aforementioned for a term of _____ years, with all said real property's attendant issues, rents, and profits.
- (historical or rare law) Income derived from fines levied by a court or law-enforcement officer; the fines themselves.
- (obsolete) The entrails of a slaughtered animal.
- (rare and obsolete) Any action or deed performed by a person.
- (obsolete) Luck considered as the favor or disfavor of nature, the gods, or God.
- (publishing) A single edition of a newspaper or other periodical publication.
- Yeah, I just got the June issue of Wombatboy.
- The entire set of some item printed and disseminated during a certain period, particularly (publishing) a single printing of a particular edition of a work when contrasted with other print runs.
- The May 1918 issue of US 24-cent stamps became famous when a printer's error inverted its depiction of an airmail plane.
- (figuratively, originally WWI military slang, usually with definite article) The entire set of something; all of something.
- The bloody sergeant snaffled our whole issue of booze, dammit.
- (finance) Any financial instrument issued by a company.
- The company's issues have included bonds, stocks, and other securities.
- The loan of a book etc. from a library to a patron; all such loans by a given library during a given period.
- (medicine, now rare) The bodily fluid drained through a natural or artificial issue.
- The means or opportunity by which something flows or comes out, particularly:
- (obsolete) A sewer.
- The place where something flows or comes out, an outlet, particularly:
- (obsolete) An exit from a room or building.
- 1881, Robert Louis Stevenson, Virginibus Puerisque:
- How if there were no centre at all, but just one alley after another, and the whole world a labyrinth without end or issue?
- 1881, Robert Louis Stevenson, Virginibus Puerisque:
- (now rare) A confluence: the mouth of a river; the outlet of a lake or other body of water.
- (obsolete) An exit from a room or building.
- The action or an instance of sending something out, particularly:
- The issue of the directive from the treasury prompted the central bank's most recent issue of currency.
- (historical medicine) A small incision, tear, or artificial ulcer, used to drain fluid and usually held open with a pea or other small object.
- 2005, James Harold Kirkup, The Evolution of Surgical Instruments, Ch. xxv, p. 403:
- Issues and fontanels were supposed remedies for joint diseases, pulmonary tuberculosis, and other chronic conditions.
- 2005, James Harold Kirkup, The Evolution of Surgical Instruments, Ch. xxv, p. 403:
- The production or distribution of something for general use.
- Congress delegated the issue of US currency to the Federal Reserve in 1913.
- The distribution of something (particularly rations or standardized provisions) to someone or some group.
- The uniform was standard prison issue.
- (finance) The action or an instance of a company selling bonds, stock, or other securities.
- The company's stock issue diluted his ownership.
- Any question or situation to be resolved, particularly:
- Please stand by. We are having technical issues.
- (law) A point of law or fact in dispute or question in a legal action presented for resolution by the court.
- The issue before the court is whether participation in a group blog makes the plaintiff a public figure under the relevant statute.
- (figuratively) Anything in dispute, an area of disagreement whose resolution is being debated or decided.
- For chrissakes, John, don't make an issue out of it. Just sleep on the floor if you want.
- (rare and obsolete) A dispute between two alternatives, a dilemma.
- (US, originally psychology, usually in the plural) A psychological or emotional difficulty, (now informal, figuratively and usually euphemistic) any problem or concern considered as a vague and intractable difficulty.
- She has daddy issues, mommy issues, drug issues, money issues, trust issues, printer issues... I'm just sayin', girl's got issues.
- The action or an instance of concluding something, particularly:
- (obsolete) The end of any action or process.
- (obsolete) The end of any period of time.
- The end result of an event or events, any result or outcome, particularly:
- (now rare) The result of a discussion or negotiation, an agreement.
- (obsolete) The result of an investigation or consideration, a conclusion.
- (figuratively, now rare) The action or an instance of feeling some emotion.
- (figuratively, now rare) The action or an instance of leaving any state or condition.
Synonyms
- (movement of soldiers): sortie, sally; charge (rapid, usually mounted)
- (progeny): descendants, fruit of one's loins, offspring
Derived terms
Related terms
- exit
Translations
Verb
issue (third-person singular simple present issues, present participle issuing, simple past and past participle issued)
- To flow out, to proceed from, to come out or from.
- The water issued forth from the spring.
- The rents issuing from the land permitted him to live as a man of independent means.
- 1611, Bible (King James Version), 2 Kings, xx. 18
- ...thy sons that shall issue from thee...
- 1918, Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Land That Time Forgot 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, Ulysses 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 rush out, to sally forth.
- The men issued from the town and attacked the besiegers.
- To extend into, to open onto.
- The road issues into the highway.
- To turn out in a certain way, 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.
- 2007, John Burrow, A History of Histories, Penguin 2009, p. 171:
- (law) To come to a point in fact or law on which the parties join issue.
- To send out; to put into circulation.
- The Federal Reserve issues US dollars.
- To deliver for use.
- The prison issued new uniforms for the inmates.
- To deliver by authority.
- The court issued a writ of mandamus.
- 2014, Paul Doyle, "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): begive
Derived terms
- issuable
- issuer
- misissue
Translations
References
- issue in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
Anagrams
- Iesus, Susie, usies, ussie
French
Etymology
Old French issue
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /i.sy/
Noun
issue f (plural issues)
- exit, way out
- outcome, result
Adjective
issue
- feminine singular of issu
Further reading
- “issue” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Old French
Verb
issue f
- feminine singular of the past participle of issir
Noun
issue f (oblique plural issues, nominative singular issue, nominative plural issues)
- exit; way out
- departure (act of leaving)
Descendants
- ? English: issue
- French: issue
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- what issue results from the combination
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- what issues are faced with catalan-valencian-balear occitan
drop
English
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) enPR: dr?p, IPA(key): /d??p/
- (General American) enPR: dr?p, IPA(key): /d??p/, [d????p]
- Rhymes: -?p
Etymology 1
From Late Middle English droppe, Middle English drope (“small quantity of liquid; small or least amount of something; pendant jewel; dripping of a liquid; a shower; nasal flow, catarrh; speck, spot; blemish; disease causing spots on the skin”) [and other forms], from Old English dropa (“a drop”), from Proto-West Germanic *drop? (“drop (of liquid)”), from Proto-Germanic *drupô (“drop (of liquid)”), from Proto-Indo-European *d?rewb- (“to crumble, grind”).
Noun
drop (plural drops)
- (also figuratively) A small quantity of liquid, just large enough to hold its own round shape through surface tension, especially one that falls from a source of liquid.
- (pharmacology) A dose of liquid medicine in the form of a drop (sense 1).
- (pharmacology, chiefly in the plural) A liquid medicine that is intended to be administered in drops (sense 1).
- (pharmacology) A dose of liquid medicine in the form of a drop (sense 1).
- (figuratively) A very small quantity of liquid, or (by extension) of anything.
- (chiefly Australia, Britain) A small amount of an alcoholic beverage.
- (chiefly Britain) Usually preceded by the: alcoholic spirits in general.
- (Ireland, informal) A single measure of whisky.
- (chiefly Australia, Britain) A small amount of an alcoholic beverage.
- That which hangs or resembles a liquid globule, such as a hanging diamond earring or ornament, a glass pendant on a chandelier, etc.
- Often preceded by a defining word: a small, round piece of hard candy, such as a lemon drop; a lozenge.
- (architecture) An ornament resembling a pendant; a gutta.
- A thing which drops or hangs down.
- The cover mounted on a swivel over a keyhole that rests over the keyhole when not in use to keep out debris, but is swiveled out of the way before inserting the key.
- (agriculture) A fruit which has fallen off a tree, etc., or has been knocked off accidentally, rather than picked.
- (American football) A dropped pass.
- (law enforcement) A trapdoor (“hinged platform”) on a gallows; a gallows itself.
- (online gaming, video games) An item made available for the player to pick up from the remains of a defeated enemy.
- (technology)
- A mechanism for lowering something, such as a machine for lowering heavy weights on to a ship's deck, or a device for temporarily lowering a gas jet, etc.
- Short for drop hammer and drop press.
- (theater) A curtain which falls in front of a theatrical stage; also, a section of (cloth) scenery lowered on to the stage like a curtain.
- An act or instance of dropping (in all senses).
- An act of moving downwards under the force of gravity; a descent, a fall.
- An instance of making a delivery of people, supplies, or things, especially by parachute out of an aircraft (an airdrop), but also by truck, etc.
- A release (of music, a video game, etc).
- (gambling) The amount of money that a gambler exchanges for chips in a casino.
- (law enforcement, informal) Preceded by the: execution by hanging.
- (sports)
- Usually preceded by the: relegation from one division to a lower one.
- (American football) Short for drop-back.
- (pinball) Short for drop target.
- (rugby) Short for drop kick.
- (US, banking, dated) An unsolicited credit card issue.
- An act of moving downwards under the force of gravity; a descent, a fall.
- A decline in degree, quality, quantity, or rate.
- (sewing)
- Of men's clothes: the difference between the chest circumference and waist circumference.
- Of women's clothes: the difference between the bust circumference and hip circumference.
- (sewing)
- The distance through which something drops, or falls below a certain level.
- The distance below a cliff or other high position through which someone or something could fall; hence, a steep slope.
- The vertical length of a hanging curtain.
- (engineering) The distance of the axis of a shaft below the base of a hanger.
- (law enforcement) The distance that a person drops when being executed by hanging.
- (nautical) The depth of a (square) sail (generally applied to the courses only); the vertical dimension of a sail.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Ham. Nav. Encyc to this entry?)
- The distance below a cliff or other high position through which someone or something could fall; hence, a steep slope.
- A place where items or supplies may be left for others to collect, whether openly (as with a mail drop), or secretly or illegally (as in crime or espionage); a drop-off point.
- Only used in get the drop on and have the drop on: an advantage.
- (music) A point in a song, usually electronic music such as dubstep, house, trace, or trap, where there is a very noticeable and pleasing change in bass, tempo, and/or overall tone; a climax, a highlight.
Hyponyms
Derived terms
Translations
Etymology 2
From Middle English droppen, dropen (“to fall in drops, drip or trickle down; to scatter, sprinkle; to be covered with a liquid; to give off moisture; of an object: to drop, fall; of a living being: to fall to the ground”) [and other forms], from Old English dropian, droppian (“to drop”), from dropa (“a drop”) (see further at etymology 1) + -ian (suffix forming verbs from adjectives and nouns).
Verb
drop (third-person singular simple present drops, present participle dropping, simple past and past participle dropped or (archaic) dropt)
- (intransitive) Of a liquid: to fall in drops or droplets. [from 11th c.]
- (intransitive, also figuratively) To fall (straight down) under the influence of gravity, like a drop of liquid. [from 14th c.]
- (intransitive) To fall or sink quickly or suddenly to the ground. [from 15th c.]
- (intransitive) To collapse in exhaustion or injury; also, to fall dead, or to fall in death.
- (intransitive) To fall into a particular condition or state.
- (intransitive) To come to an end (by not being kept up); to lapse, to stop. [from 17th c.]
- (intransitive) To decrease, diminish, or lessen in condition, degree, value, etc. [from 18th c.]
- (intransitive) Of a song or sound: to lower in key, pitch, tempo, or other quality.
- (intransitive) Of a voice: to lower in timbre, often due to puberty.
- (intransitive) Of a song or sound: to lower in key, pitch, tempo, or other quality.
- (intransitive) To fall behind or to the rear of a group of people, etc., as a result of not keeping up with those at the front.
- (intransitive) Usually followed by by, in, or into: of a person: to visit someone or somewhere informally or without a prior appointment.
- (intransitive, computing, music, television, colloquial) Of a programme, software, a music album or song, etc.: to enter public distribution.
- (intransitive, gambling) To drop out of the betting.
- 1990, Stewart Wolpin, The Rules of Neighborhood Poker According to Hoyle (page 219)
- But more important, if I dropped, Marty would have won the hand automatically.
- 1990, Stewart Wolpin, The Rules of Neighborhood Poker According to Hoyle (page 219)
- (intransitive, physiology, informal) Of the testicles: to hang further away from the body and begin producing sperm due to puberty.
- (intransitive, obsolete) To let drops fall; to discharge itself in drops.
- 1611 King James Bible, Psalms 68:8
- The heavens […] dropped at the presence of God.
- 1611 King James Bible, Psalms 68:8
- (transitive) To drip (a liquid) in drops or small amounts. [from 14th c.]
- 1759-1767, Laurence Sterne, The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy
- The recording angel, as he wrote it down, dropped a tear upon the word and blotted it out forever.
- 1860, Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass
- persons, dropping sweat-drops or blood-drops
- 1759-1767, Laurence Sterne, The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy
- (transitive, ergative, also figuratively) To let (something) fall; to allow (something) to fall (either by releasing hold of, or losing one's grip on). [from 14th c.]
- (transitive) To move to a lower position; to allow to hang downwards; to lower.
- To quickly lower or take down (one's trousers), especially in public.
- (cooking) To cook (food, especially fast food), particularly by lowering into hot oil to deep-fry, or by grilling.
- (transitive) Of an animal (usually a sheep): to give birth to (young); of a bird: to lay (an egg).
- (transitive) To mention (something) casually or incidentally, usually in conversation. [from 17th c.]
- (transitive) To let (a letter, etc.) fall into a postbox; hence, to send (a letter, email, or other message) in an offhand manner. [from 18th c.]
- (transitive) To make (someone or something) fall to the ground from a blow, gunshot, etc.; to bring down, to shoot down. [from 18th c.]
- 1846, ed. by G. W. Nickisson, “Elephant-Shooting in Ceylon”, in Fraser's Magazine, vol. XXXIII, no. CXCVII
- page 562: ...if the first shot does not drop him, and he rushes on, the second will be a very hurried and most likely ineffectual one...
- page 568 ...with a single shot he dropped him like a master of the art.
- 1892, Alexander A. A. Kinloch, Large Game Shooting in Thibet, the Himalayas, Northern and Central India, page 126
- As with all other animals, a shot behind the shoulder is the most likely to drop the beast on the spot […]
- 1921, Daniel Henderson, Boone of the Wilderness, page 54
- He dropped the beast with a bullet in its heart.
- 1985, Beastie Boys, Paul Revere:
- The piano player's out, the music stopped / His boy had beef, and he got dropped...
- 1992, Dan Parkinson, Dust on the Wind, page 164
- With a quick clench of the fist on Joey's throat, Bodie dropped him. The man crumpled to the ground […]
- 1846, ed. by G. W. Nickisson, “Elephant-Shooting in Ceylon”, in Fraser's Magazine, vol. XXXIII, no. CXCVII
- (transitive) To set down (someone or something) from a vehicle; to stop and deliver or deposit (someone or something); to drop off.
- (transitive) To lower (a sound, a voice, etc.) in pitch or volume.
- (transitive, music) To tune (a guitar string, etc.) to a lower note.
- (transitive) To cease concerning oneself over (someone or something); to have nothing more to do with (a discussion, subject, etc.). [from 17th c.]
- 1815, Sir Walter Scott, Guy Mannering; Or, The Astrologer
- The connection had been dropped many years.
- 1859, William Makepeace Thackeray, The Virginians: A Tale of the Last Century
- that astonishing ease with which fine ladies drop you and pick you up again
- 1815, Sir Walter Scott, Guy Mannering; Or, The Astrologer
- (transitive) To dispose or get rid of (something); to lose, to remove.
- (transitive) To cease to include (something), as if on a list; to dismiss, to eject, to expel.
- 2019, Louise Taylor, Alex Morgan heads USA past England into Women’s World Cup final (in The Guardian, 2 July 2019)[6]
- If Carly Telford’s replacement of Karen Bardsley, because of a hamstring injury, was enforced, the switch to 4-4-1-1 was not. This new-look configuration saw Rachel Daly deployed in front of Lucy Bronze down the right, Toni Duggan and Fran Kirby dropped, Beth Mead introduced on the left and Nikita Parris moved up front.
- 2019, Louise Taylor, Alex Morgan heads USA past England into Women’s World Cup final (in The Guardian, 2 July 2019)[6]
- (transitive) To cancel or cease to participate in (a scheduled course, event, or project).
- (transitive, slang)
- To lose, spend, or otherwise part with (money). [from 17th c.]
- 1949, The Atlantian, v 8, Atlanta: United States Penitentiary, p 41:
- The question was: Who put the most in the collection box? The wealthy guy, who dropped a “C” note, or the tattered old dame who parted with her last tarnished penny.
- 2000, Lisa Reardon, Blameless: A Novel, Random House, p 221:
- I forked over the $19.25. I was in no position to be dropping twenties like gumdrops but I deserved something good from this crappy morning.
- 1949, The Atlantian, v 8, Atlanta: United States Penitentiary, p 41:
- To pass or use (counterfeit cheques, money, etc.).
- To impart (something).
- Especially in drop acid: to swallow (a drug, particularly LSD). [from 20th c.]
- To lose, spend, or otherwise part with (money). [from 17th c.]
- (transitive, computing, music, television, colloquial) To release (a programme, software, a music album or song, etc.) to the public.
- (transitive, linguistics) To fail to write, or (especially) to pronounce (a syllable, letter, etc.). [from 19th c.]
- (transitive, music)
- To play (a portion of music) in the manner of a disc jockey.
- To perform (rap music).
- To play (a portion of music) in the manner of a disc jockey.
- (transitive, sports)
- (originally US) To (unexpectedly) lose (a competition, game, etc.).
- (cricket) Of a fielder: to fail to dismiss (a batsman) by accidentally dropping a batted ball that had initially been caught.
- (rugby) To score (a goal) by means of a drop kick.
- (transitive, archaic) To cover (something) with or as if with drops, especially of a different colour; to bedrop, to variegate.
- 1667, John Milton, Paradise Lost
- their waved coats dropped with gold
- 1667, John Milton, Paradise Lost
Conjugation
Derived terms
Translations
References
Further reading
- drop on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Anagrams
- Prod, Prod., dorp, prod
Czech
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /drop/
- Rhymes: -op
- Homophone: drob
Etymology 1
From Proto-Slavic *drop?ty, which is a compound, whose first part is probably from Proto-Indo-European *dreh?- (“run”) and the other from Proto-Slavic *p?ta (“bird”), which is probably based on Proto-Indo-European *put- (“a young, a child, a little animal”).
Noun
drop m
- bustard
Declension
Etymology 2
Borrowed from English drop (“act of dropping”).
Noun
drop m
- (golf) dropping a new ball from hand from shoulder height and arm's length, if the original ball was lost.
Declension
References
Further reading
- drop in P?íru?ní slovník jazyka ?eského, 1935–1957
- drop in Slovník spisovného jazyka ?eského, 1960–1971, 1989
Dutch
Etymology
From Middle Dutch drope (“drop”), from Old Dutch dropo, from Proto-Germanic *drupô. The sense “licorice” developed from the sense “drop of licorice extract”; compare also English lemon drop.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /dr?p/
- Hyphenation: drop
- Rhymes: -?p
Noun
drop f (plural droppen, diminutive dropje n)
- droplet
Synonyms
- drup
- druppel
Noun
drop f or n (uncountable, diminutive dropje n)
- licorice, especially a variety sold as small sweets/candies.
Derived terms
- dropje
- droplul
- dropveter
- Engelse drop
- honingdrop
- salmiakdrop
Anagrams
- dorp
French
Etymology
Borrowed from English drop.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /d??p/
Noun
drop m (plural drops)
- (rugby) drop goal
Further reading
- “drop” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Polish
Etymology
From Proto-Slavic *drop?ty, whose first part is probably from Proto-Indo-European *dreh?- (“run”) and the other from Proto-Slavic *p?ta (“bird”), which is probably based on Proto-Indo-European *put- (“a young, a child, a little animal”).
Compare Czech drop and Russian ????? (drofa). Cognate with German Trappe.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /dr?p/
Noun
drop m anim
- bustard; a bird belonging to the family Otididae, especially the great bustard (Otis tarda) or any member of the genus Ardeotis
Declension
Further reading
- drop in Wielki s?ownik j?zyka polskiego, Instytut J?zyka Polskiego PAN
- drop in Polish dictionaries at PWN
References
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