issue
Noun
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is a type of: cognitive content, content, mental object - the sum or range of what has been perceived, discovered, or learnedsubtypes:
- gut issue, hot-button issue - an issue that elicits strong emotional reactions
- paramount issue - an issue whose settlement is more important than anything else; and issue that must be settled before anything else can be settled
- bread-and-butter issue, pocketbook issue - an issue whose settlement will affect financial resources
- quodlibet - an issue that is presented for formal disputation
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is a type of: periodical - a publication that appears at fixed intervalssubtypes: edition - an issue of a newspapersame as: number
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is a type of: cognitive content, content, mental object - the sum or range of what has been perceived, discovered, or learnedsubtypes:
- area - a subject of study
- blind spot - a subject about which you are ignorant or prejudiced and fail to exercise good judgment
- remit - the topic that a person, committee, or piece of research is expected to deal with or has authority to deal with
- res adjudicata, res judicata - a matter already settled in court; cannot be raised again
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subtypes: stock issue - (corporation law) the authorization and delivery of shares of stock for sale to the public or the shares thus offered at a particular time
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referred to in: armed forces, armed services, military, military machine, war machine - the military forces of a nationsame as: government issue, military issue
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is a type of: income - the financial gain (earned or unearned) accruing over a given period of timesubtypes:
- economic rent, rent - the return derived from cultivated land in excess of that derived from the poorest land cultivated under similar conditions
- payback - financial return or reward (especially returns equal to the initial investment)
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is a type of: phenomenon - any state or process known through the senses rather than by intuition or reasoningsubtypes:
- materialisation, materialization, offspring - something that comes into existence as a result
- aftereffect - any result that follows its cause after an interval
- aftermath, backwash, wake - the consequences of an event (especially a catastrophic event)
- bandwagon effect - the phenomenon of a popular trend attracting even greater popularity
- brisance - the shattering or crushing effect of a sudden release of energy as in an explosion
- butterfly effect - the phenomenon whereby a small change at one place in a complex system can have large effects elsewhere, e.g., a butterfly flapping its wings in Rio de Janeiro might change the weather in Chicago
- by-product, byproduct - a secondary and sometimes unexpected consequence
- change - the result of alteration or modification
- coattails effect - (politics) the consequence of one popular candidate in an election drawing votes for other members of the same political party
- coriolis effect - (physics) an effect whereby a body moving in a rotating frame of reference experiences the Coriolis force acting perpendicular to the direction of motion and to the axis of rotation; on Earth the Coriolis effect deflects moving bodies to the right in the northern hemisphere and to the left in the southern hemisphere
- dent - an appreciable consequence (especially a lessening)
- domino effect - the consequence of one event setting off a chain of similar events (like a falling domino causing a whole row of upended dominos to fall)
- harvest - the consequence of an effort or activity
- impact, wallop - a forceful consequence; a strong effect
- influence - the effect of one thing (or person) on another
- knock-on effect - a secondary or incidental effect
- branch, offset, offshoot, outgrowth - a natural consequence of development
- product - a consequence of someone's efforts or of a particular set of circumstances
- placebo effect - any effect that seems to be a consequence of administering a placebo; the change is usually beneficial and is assumed result from the person's faith in the treatment or preconceptions about what the experimental drug was supposed to do; pharmacologists were the first to talk about placebo effects but now the idea has been generalized to many situations having nothing to do with drugs
- position effect - (genetics) the effect on the expression of a gene that is produced by changing its location in a chromosome
- repercussion, reverberation - a remote or indirect consequence of some action
- response - a result
- fallout, side effect - any adverse and unwanted secondary effect
- spillover - (economics) any indirect effect of public expenditure
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subtypes:
- baby - the youngest member of a group (not necessarily young)
- bastard, by-blow, illegitimate, illegitimate child, love child, whoreson - the illegitimate offspring of unmarried parents
- child, kid - a human offspring (son or daughter) of any age
- eldest, firstborn - the offspring who came first in the order of birth
- grandchild - a child of your son or daughter
- heir, successor - a person who inherits some title or office
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is a type of: beginning - the event consisting of the start of somethingsubtypes:
- eruption - the emergence of a tooth as it breaks through the gum
- dissilience - the emergence of seeds as seed pods burst open when they are ripe
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is a type of: opening - a vacant or unobstructed space that is man-madesubtypes: outfall - the outlet of a river or drain or other source of water
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is a type of: printing - the business of producing printed material for sale or distributionsame as: publication
Verb
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subtypes: edit - supervise the publication of
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is a type of: distribute - make availablesubtypes:same as: supply
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is a type of: communicate, intercommunicate - transmit thoughts or feelings
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subtypes:
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is a type of: write - communicate or express by writingsubtypes: check - write out a check on a bank account
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- Events ("What?")
- Nouns denoting acts or actions
- Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents
- Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
- Nouns denoting man-made objects
- Nouns denoting natural events
- Nouns denoting natural phenomena
- Nouns denoting people
- Nouns denoting possession and transfer of possession
- Relations
- Specific
- Verbs of political and social activities and events
- Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.
- Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing
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