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Issue and Develop

noun

  • An important question that is in dispute and must be settled.
    • usage: "the issue could be settled by requiring public education for everyone"; "politicians never discuss the real issues"
  • One of a series published periodically.
    • usage: "she found an old issue of the magazine in her dentist's waiting room"
  • Some situation or event that is thought about.
    • usage: "he kept drifting off the topic"; "he had been thinking about the subject for several years"; "it is a matter for the police"
  • The act of providing an item for general use or for official purposes (usually in quantity. )
    • usage: "a new issue of stamps"; "the last issue of penicillin was over a month ago"
  • Supplies (as food or clothing or ammunition) issued by the government.
  • The income or profit arising from such transactions as the sale of land or other property.
    • usage: "the average return was about 5"
  • A phenomenon that follows and is caused by some previous phenomenon.
    • usage: "the magnetic effect was greater when the rod was lengthwise"; "his decision had depressing consequences for business"; "he acted very wise after the event"
  • The immediate descendants of a person.
    • usage: "she was the mother of many offspring"; "he died without issue"
  • The becoming visible.
    • usage: "not a day's difference between the emergence of the andrenas and the opening of the willow catkins"
  • An opening that permits escape or release.
    • usage: "he blocked the way out"; "the canyon had only one issue"
  • The act of issuing printed materials.

verb

  • Prepare and issue for public distribution or sale.
    • usage: "publish a magazine or newspaper"
  • Circulate or distribute or equip with.
    • usage: "issue a new uniform to the children"; "supply blankets for the beds"
  • Bring out an official document (such as a warrant. )
  • Come out of.
    • usage: "Water issued from the hole in the wall"; "The words seemed to come out by themselves"
  • Make out and issue.
    • usage: "write out a check"; "cut a ticket"; "Please make the check out to me"

In securities, is stock or bonds sold by a corporation or a government; or, the selling of new securities by a corporation or government through an underwriter or private placement.

verb

  • Make something new, such as a product or a mental or artistic creation.
    • usage: "Her company developed a new kind of building material that withstands all kinds of weather"; "They developed a new technique"
  • Work out.
    • usage: "We have developed a new theory of evolution"
  • Gain through experience.
    • usage: "I acquired a strong aversion to television"; "Children must develop a sense of right and wrong"; "Dave developed leadership qualities in his new position"; "develop a passion for painting"
  • Come to have or undergo a change of (physical features and attributes. )
    • usage: "He grew a beard"; "The patient developed abdominal pains"; "I got funny spots all over my body"; "Well-developed breasts"
  • Come into existence; take on form or shape.
    • usage: "A new religious movement originated in that country"; "a love that sprang up from friendship"; "the idea for the book grew out of a short story"; "An interesting phenomenon uprose"
  • Change the use of and make available or usable.
    • usage: "develop land"; "The country developed its natural resources"; "The remote areas of the country were gradually built up"
  • Elaborate, as of theories and hypotheses.
    • usage: "Could you develop the ideas in your thesis"
  • Create by training and teaching.
    • usage: "The old master is training world-class violinists"; "we develop the leaders for the future"
  • Be gradually disclosed or unfolded; become manifest.
    • usage: "The plot developed slowly";
  • Grow, progress, unfold, or evolve through a process of evolution, natural growth, differentiation, or a conducive environment.
    • usage: "A flower developed on the branch"; "The country developed into a mighty superpower"; "The embryo develops into a fetus"; "This situation has developed over a long time"
  • Become technologically advanced.
    • usage: "Many countries in Asia are now developing at a very fast pace"; "Viet Nam is modernizing rapidly"
  • Cause to grow and differentiate in ways conforming to its natural development.
    • usage: "The perfect climate here develops the grain"; "He developed a new kind of apple"
  • Generate gradually.
    • usage: "We must develop more potential customers"; "develop a market for the new mobile phone"
  • Grow emotionally or mature.
    • usage: "The child developed beautifully in her new kindergarten"; "When he spent a summer at camp, the boy grew noticeably and no longer showed some of his old adolescent behavior"
  • Make visible by means of chemical solutions.
    • usage: "Please develop this roll of film for me"
  • Superimpose a three-dimensional surface on a plane without stretching, in geometry.
  • Move one's pieces into strategically more advantageous positions.
    • usage: "Spassky developed quickly"
  • Move into a strategically more advantageous position.
    • usage: "develop the rook"
  • Elaborate by the unfolding of a musical idea and by the working out of the rhythmic and harmonic changes in the theme.
    • usage: "develop the melody and change the key"
  • Happen.
    • usage: "Report the news as it develops"; "These political movements recrudesce from time to time"
  • Expand in the form of a series.
    • usage: "Develop the function in the following form"