issuing
issuing is the present participle and gerund of issue.
Noun
issuing (plural issuings)
- The act by which something is issued.
- the issuings and transactions of stocks
- That which issues from a source.
- the issuings of nature's springs
Meaning of issue
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.
- 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.
- 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, published 2009, page 171
- To end up as, to turn out being, to become as a result.
- And let his foes like flockes of feareful Roes,
Purſude by hunters, flie his angry lookes,
That I may ſee him iſſue Conquerour.c. 1587–1588 (date written), [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. […] The First Part […], 2nd edition, part 1, London: […] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, […], published 1592, →OCLC...
- And let his foes like flockes of feareful Roes,
- To come to a point in fact or law on which the parties join issue.
Forms of issuing
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Questions about issuing
- What does issuing mean?
- Issuing means the act by which something is issued.
- What is issuing the present participle and gerund of?
- Issuing is the present participle and gerund of issue.
- What part of speech is issuing?
- Issuing is a noun.
- What is the plural of issuing?
- The plural of issuing is issuings.
Words near issuing in the dictionary
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