What does issue mean?

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[n] an important question that is in dispute and must be settled(the issue could be settled by requiring public education for everyone politicians never discuss the real issues)[v] prepare and issue for public distribution or sale(publish a magazine or newspaper)[n] one of a series publish

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[n] an important question that is in dispute and must be settled
(the issue could be settled by requiring public education for everyone politicians never discuss the real issues)

[v] prepare and issue for public distribution or sale
(publish a magazine or newspaper)

[n] one of a series published periodically
(she found an old issue of the magazine in her dentist's waiting room)

[v] circulate or distribute or equip with
(issue a new uniform to the children supply blankets for the beds)

[n] some situation or event that is thought about
(he kept drifting off the topic he had been thinking about the subject for several years it is a matter for the police)

[v] bring out an official document (such as a warrant)

[n] the act of providing an item for general use or for official purposes (usually in quantity)
(a new issue of stamps the last issue of penicillin was over a month ago)

[v] come out of
(Water issued from the hole in the wall The words seemed to come out by themselves)

[n] supplies (as food or clothing or ammunition) issued by the government

[v] make out and issue
(write out a check cut a ticket Please make the check out to me)

[n] the income or profit arising from such transactions as the sale of land or other property
(the average return was about 5%)

[n] a phenomenon that follows and is caused by some previous phenomenon
(the magnetic effect was greater when the rod was lengthwise his decision had depressing consequences for business he acted very wise after the event)

[n] the immediate descendants of a person
(she was the mother of many offspring he died without issue)

[n] the becoming visible
(not a day's difference between the emergence of the andrenas and the opening of the willow catkins)

[n] an opening that permits escape or release
(he blocked the way out the canyon had only one issue)

[n] the act of issuing printed materials

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The first recorded dictionaries date back to Sumerian times around 2300 BCE, in the form of bilingual dictionaries, and the oldest surviving monolingual dictionaries are Chinese dictionaries c. 3rd century BCE. The first purely English alphabetical dictionary was A Table Alphabeticall, written in 1604, and monolingual dictionaries in other languages also began appearing in Europe at around this time. The systematic study of dictionaries as objects of scientific interest arose as a 20th-century enterprise, called lexicography, and largely initiated by Ladislav Zgusta. The birth of the new discipline was not without controversy, with the practical dictionary-makers being sometimes accused by others of having an "astonishing" lack of method and critical-self reflection.