Issue vs. Observation — What's the Difference?

A point or matter of discussion, debate, or dispute

Observation is the active acquisition of information from a primary source. In living beings, observation employs the senses.

A matter of public concern

The act of observing

A misgiving, objection, or complaint

The power or faculty of observing.

A problem or difficulty.

The fact of being observed

A personal problem

The act or process of perceiving something, such as a phenomenon, often by means of an instrument, and making a record of the resulting information.

The act of circulating, distributing, or publishing by a business, government, or organization

The result or record of such an act or process

An item or set of items, as stamps or coins, made available at one time by a business, government, or organization.

An inference, judgment, or remark that is made by observing

A single copy of a periodical

The act of observing, and the fact of being observed (see observance)

A distinct set of copies of an edition of a book distinguished from others of that edition by variations in the printed matter.

The act of noting and recording some event; or the record of such noting.

Proceeds from estates or fines.

A remark or comment.

Something proceeding from a specified source

A judgement based on observing.

A culminating point leading to a decision

Performance of what is prescribed; adherence in practice; observance.

A final result or conclusion, as a solution to a problem.

A regime under which a subject is routinely observed.

The act or an instance of flowing, passing, or giving out

Philosophically as: the phenomenal presence of human being existence.

A place of egress; an outlet

(stochastics) A realization of a random variable.

A discharge, as of blood or pus.

The act or the faculty of observing or taking notice; the act of seeing, or of fixing the mind upon, anything.

A lesion, wound, or ulcer producing such a discharge.

The result of an act, or of acts, of observing; view; reflection; conclusion; judgment.

Offspring; progeny

An expression of an opinion or judgment upon what one has observed; a remark.

To flow, go, or come out

Performance of what is prescribed; adherence in practice; observance.

To proceed from a source; emerge or come forth

The act of recognizing and noting some fact or occurrence in nature, as an aurora, a corona, or the structure of an animal.

The action or an instance of flowing or coming out, an outflow, particularly:

The act of making and recording a measurement

A movement of soldiers towards an enemy, a sortie.

The act of observing; taking a patient look

The outflow of a bodily fluid, particularly in abnormal amounts.

Facts learned by observing;

Someone or something that flows out or comes out, particularly:

The act of noticing or paying attention;

The bodily fluid drained through a natural or artificial issue.

A remark expressing careful consideration

Offspring: one's natural child or children.

Progeny: all one's lineal descendants.

A race of people considered as the descendants of some common ancestor.

The produce or income derived from farmland or rental properties.

Income derived from fines levied by a court or law-enforcement officer; the fines themselves.

The entrails of a slaughtered animal.

Any action or deed performed by a person.

Luck considered as the favor or disfavor of nature, the gods, or God.

A single edition of a newspaper or other periodical publication.

The entire set of some item printed and disseminated during a certain period, particularly a single printing of a particular edition of a work when contrasted with other print runs.

The entire set of something; all of something.

(finance) Any financial instrument issued by a company.

The loan of a book etc. from a library to a patron; all such loans by a given library during a given period.

The means or opportunity by which something flows or comes out, particularly:

A sewer.

The place where something flows or comes out, an outlet, particularly:

An exit from a room or building.

A confluence: the mouth of a river; the outlet of a lake or other body of water.

The action or an instance of sending something out, particularly:

A small incision, tear, or artificial ulcer, used to drain fluid and usually held open with a pea or other small object.

The production or distribution of something for general use.

The distribution of something (particularly rations or standardized provisions) to someone or some group.

(finance) The action or an instance of a company selling bonds, stock, or other securities.

Any question or situation to be resolved, particularly:

A point of law or fact in dispute or question in a legal action presented for resolution by the court.

Anything in dispute, an area of disagreement whose resolution is being debated or decided.

A dispute between two alternatives, a dilemma.

A psychological or emotional difficulty, any problem or concern considered as a vague and intractable difficulty.

The action or an instance of concluding something, particularly:

The end of any action or process.

The end of any period of time.

The end result of an event or events, any result or outcome, particularly:

The result of a discussion or negotiation, an agreement.

The result of an investigation or consideration, a conclusion.

The action or an instance of feeling some emotion.

The action or an instance of leaving any state or condition.

To flow out, to proceed from, to come out or from.

To rush out, to sally forth.

To extend into, to open onto.

To turn out in a certain way, to result in.

(archaic) To end up as, to turn out being, to become as a result.

(legal) To come to a point in fact or law on which the parties join issue.

To send out; to put into circulation.

To deliver for use.

To deliver by authority.

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.

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.

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.

Progeny; a child or children; offspring. In law, sometimes, in a general sense, all persons descended from a common ancestor; all lineal descendants.

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.

A discharge of flux, as of blood.

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.

The final outcome or result; upshot; conclusion; event; hence, contest; test; trial.

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; a point of contention; a matter in controversy.

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.

To pass or flow out; to run out, as from any inclosed place.

To go out; to rush out; to sally forth; as, troops issued from the town, and attacked the besiegers.

To proceed, as from a source; as, water issues from springs; light issues from the sun.

To proceed, as progeny; to be derived; to be descended; to spring.

To extend; to pass or open; as, the path issues into the highway.

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.

To close; to end; to terminate; to turn out; as, we know not how the cause will issue.

In pleading, to come to a point in fact or law, on which the parties join issue.

To send out; to put into circulation; as, to issue notes from a bank.

To deliver for use; as, to issue provisions.

To send out officially; to deliver by authority; as, to issue an order; to issue a writ.

An important question that is in dispute and must be settled;

One of a series published periodically;

The provision of something by issuing it (usually in quantity);

Some situation or event that is thought about;

Supplies (as food or clothing or ammunition) issued by the government

The immediate descendants of a person;

A phenomenon that follows and is caused by some previous phenomenon;

The income arising from land or other property;

The becoming visible;

An opening that permits escape or release;

The act of issuing printed materials

Prepare and issue for public distribution or sale;

Circulate or distribute or equip with;

Bring out an official document (such as a warrant)

Come out of;

Make out and issue;