What's the difference between issue and plank?

Issue


Definition:

  • (n.) The act of passing or flowing out; a moving out from any inclosed place; egress; as, the issue of water from a pipe, of blood from a wound, of air from a bellows, of people from a house.
  • (n.) The act of sending out, or causing to go forth; delivery; issuance; as, the issue of an order from a commanding officer; the issue of money from a treasury.
  • (n.) That which passes, flows, or is sent out; the whole quantity sent forth or emitted at one time; as, an issue of bank notes; the daily issue of a newspaper.
  • (n.) Progeny; a child or children; offspring. In law, sometimes, in a general sense, all persons descended from a common ancestor; all lineal descendants.
  • (n.) Produce of the earth, or profits of land, tenements, or other property; as, A conveyed to B all his right for a term of years, with all the issues, rents, and profits.
  • (n.) A discharge of flux, as of blood.
  • (n.) An artificial ulcer, usually made in the fleshy part of the arm or leg, to produce the secretion and discharge of pus for the relief of some affected part.
  • (n.) The final outcome or result; upshot; conclusion; event; hence, contest; test; trial.
  • (n.) A point in debate or controversy on which the parties take affirmative and negative positions; a presentation of alternatives between which to choose or decide.
  • (n.) In pleading, a single material point of law or fact depending in the suit, which, being affirmed on the one side and denied on the other, is presented for determination. See General issue, under General, and Feigned issue, under Feigned.
  • (v. i.) To pass or flow out; to run out, as from any inclosed place.
  • (v. i.) To go out; to rush out; to sally forth; as, troops issued from the town, and attacked the besiegers.
  • (v. i.) To proceed, as from a source; as, water issues from springs; light issues from the sun.
  • (v. i.) To proceed, as progeny; to be derived; to be descended; to spring.
  • (v. i.) To extend; to pass or open; as, the path issues into the highway.
  • (v. i.) To be produced as an effect or result; to grow or accrue; to arise; to proceed; as, rents and profits issuing from land, tenements, or a capital stock.
  • (v. i.) To close; to end; to terminate; to turn out; as, we know not how the cause will issue.
  • (v. i.) In pleading, to come to a point in fact or law, on which the parties join issue.
  • (v. t.) To send out; to put into circulation; as, to issue notes from a bank.
  • (v. t.) To deliver for use; as, to issue provisions.
  • (v. t.) To send out officially; to deliver by authority; as, to issue an order; to issue a writ.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) You lot have got real issues to talk about and deal with.
  • (2) The issue of the Schizophrenia Bulletin is devoted to articles representing this full range of conceptual and empirical work on first-episode psychosis.
  • (3) I’m not in charge of it but he’s stood up and presented that, and when Jenny, you know, criticised it, or raised some issues about grandparent carers – 3,700 of them he calculated – he said “Let’s sit down”.
  • (4) Issues such as healthcare and the NHS, food banks, energy and the general cost of living were conspicuous by their absence.
  • (5) Before issuing the ruling, the judge Shaban El-Shamy read a lengthy series of remarks detailing what he described as a litany of ills committed by the Muslim Brotherhood, including “spreading chaos and seeking to bring down the Egyptian state”.
  • (6) Critics say he is unelectable as prime minister and will never be able to implement his plans, but he has nonetheless pulled attention back to an issue that many thought had gone away for good.
  • (7) Much of the current information concerning this issue is from short-term studies.
  • (8) It is entirely proper for serving judges to set out the arguments in high-profile cases to help public understanding of the legal issues, as long as it is done in an even-handed way.
  • (9) It has announced a four-stage programme of reforms that will tackle most of these stubborn and longstanding problems, including Cinderella issues such as how energy companies treat their small business customers.
  • (10) One man has died in storms sweeping across the UK that have brought 100-mile-an-hour winds and led to more than 50 flood warnings being issued with widespread disruption on the road and rail networks in much of southern England and Scotland.
  • (11) The issue has been raised by an accountant investigating the tax affairs of the duchy – an agricultural, commercial and residential landowner.
  • (12) They are just literally lying.” In August Microsoft severed its ties, saying Alec’s stance on climate change and several other issues “conflicted directly with Microsoft’s values”.
  • (13) One is that the issue of whether the World Cup should go ahead in Russia and Qatar still firmly remains on the table.
  • (14) The data indicate greater legitimacy and openness in discussing holocaust-related issues in the homes of ex-partisans than in the homes of ex-prisoners in concentration camps.
  • (15) That’s a criticism echoed by Democrats in the Senate, who issued a report earlier this month criticising Republicans for passing sweeping legislation in July to combat addiction , the Comprehensive Addiction and Recovery Act (Cara), but refusing to fund it.
  • (16) It can feel as though an official opinion has been issued.
  • (17) The first part of this survey which dealt with equipment for the anterior segment was published in a previous issue of this journal.
  • (18) Problem definition, the first step in policy development, includes identifying the issues, discussing and framing the issues, analyzing data and resources, and deciding on a problem definition.
  • (19) Heathrow, likewise, said Gatwick's new runway would not solve the issue of hub capacity.
  • (20) The deep green people who have an issue with the language of natural capital are actually making the same jump from value to commodification that they state that they don’t want ... They’ve equated one with the other,” he says.

Plank


Definition:

  • (n.) A broad piece of sawed timber, differing from a board only in being thicker. See Board.
  • (n.) Fig.: That which supports or upholds, as a board does a swimmer.
  • (n.) One of the separate articles in a declaration of the principles of a party or cause; as, a plank in the national platform.
  • (v. t.) To cover or lay with planks; as, to plank a floor or a ship.
  • (v. t.) To lay down, as on a plank or table; to stake or pay cash; as, to plank money in a wager.
  • (v. t.) To harden, as hat bodies, by felting.
  • (v. t.) To splice together the ends of slivers of wool, for subsequent drawing.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Therefore, gene diffusion in energy space is described by the Focker--Plank's equation.
  • (2) They didn’t want to think of themselves as having a kind of reliance on the state … It became a fundamental plank of the kind of ‘British values’ culture.” Between 1979 and 2013, 1.6m council homes were sold, numbers of new homes plummeted and council housing went from an inbuilt part of the post-war settlement to something pushed to the social margins.
  • (3) However, the policy is not being replaced and it suggests that Cameron has lost interest in what was once a key plank of his attempt to modernise the Conservative party and is quietly “ getting rid of the green crap ”, as he once called the extra costs attached to heating bills to subsidise energy efficiency.
  • (4) Tsipras, who made an official visit to Moscow in April to discuss the project, has made improved ties with the fellow Orthodox state a central plank of his two-party coalition’s foreign policy – much to the consternation of the EU.
  • (5) The Ukip leader said he was making immigration the central plank of his campaign and wants the the chance to grill David Cameron on the issue at the leaders’ television debates later this week.
  • (6) In the small, echoing gym of a primary school, Rodríguez and García Sánchez took turns at a makeshift podium, outlining the key planks of the party’s platform, detailing agrarian reform to a moratorium on evictions.
  • (7) We drive to the seafront, where two fishermen are toiling to the rear of the beach, turning cogs that wind a rope attached to their boat to tug it in from the sea over wooden planks.
  • (8) A central plank of the Conservative campaign for the local elections later this month – that its councils guarantee lower levels of council tax – has been challenged by new figures which show that the Tories are responsible for the highest increases.
  • (9) In a central plank of plans to cut the deficit, the government is capping the annual bill for tax credits and housing benefit to £119.5bn this year – despite forecasts that millions of people face rocketing rent charges and low wage rises.
  • (10) The tactic is a key plank of police planning to ensure the Games are not disrupted.
  • (11) The results provide two planks of support for Woodworth's hypothesis.
  • (12) That means shaking up the mutual's board, which is made up of 20 members elected from all corners of the co-operative empire and regarded as a key plank of the group's claim to be a democratic organisation.
  • (13) Zinke also differed from many in his own party by insisting: “I’m absolutely against transfer or sale of public lands.” Many Republicans have long pushed for the federal government to transfer ownership of public lands to the states, and this was included as a plank in the party’s platform.
  • (14) The houses were built on stilts and connected by thin wooden planks.
  • (15) You can build your own with a few planks of wood, or cut the bottom off an old bin.
  • (16) The decision quashed a key plank of UK asylum policy.
  • (17) In collaboration with other leading economists, he has championed a state-backed investment bank to boost lending to small and medium-sized businesses as a major plank of a growth package.
  • (18) The notion that sterling is a shared asset has been a key plank in Salmond's case that Scotland has a clear moral and legal case to have a formal currency zone, but it has been challenged by senior economists, who say a currency is only a system of exchange or a liability.
  • (19) Will Middlebrooks walks the plank, waving at a slider inside to become K-X.
  • (20) Unlike many crony capitalists who troll the halls of Congress looking for favors, the Kochs have consistently lobbied against special-interest politics.” Touching on a key plank of his attempted appeal to liberal voters , Paul continues: “[The Kochs] have always stood for freedom, equality and opportunity.