A type of dialogue or argument where the participants do not have any reasonable goal. The aim is to argue for the sake of conflict, and often to see who can yell the loudest.
One who makes specious arguments; one who is disputatious.
Provoking strife, controversy or discord.
Anything in dispute, an area of disagreement whose resolution is being debated or decided.
Income derived from fines levied by a court or law-enforcement officer; the fines themselves.
A point of law or fact in dispute or question in a legal action presented for resolution by the court.
The action or an instance of a company selling bonds, stock, or other securities.
Any financial instrument issued by a company.
The production or distribution of something for general use.
A psychological or emotional difficulty, (now informal, figurative and usually euphemistic) any problem or concern considered as a vague and intractable difficulty.
Offspring: one's natural child or children.
The outflow of a bodily fluid, particularly (now rare) in abnormal amounts.
The entire set of something; all of something.
The distribution of something (particularly rations or standardized provisions) to someone or some group.
The entire set of some item printed and disseminated during a certain period, particularly (publishing) a single printing of a particular edition of a work when contrasted with other print runs.
The action or an instance of sending something out
A small incision, tear, or artificial ulcer, used to drain fluid and usually held open with a pea or other small object.
The means or opportunity by which something flows or comes out
A single edition of a newspaper or other periodical publication.
Any question or situation to be resolved
The loan of a book etc. from a library to a patron; all such loans by a given library during a given period.
Progeny: all one's lineal descendants.
To rush out, to sally forth.
To deliver for use.
To deliver by authority.
To flow out, to proceed from, to come out or from.
To extend into, to open onto.
To send out; to put into circulation.
To turn out in a certain way, to result in.
To come to a point in fact or law on which the parties join issue.