different between inform vs voice

English

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /?n?f??m/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?n?f??m/
• Rhymes: -??(?)m

Etymology 1

From Middle English informen, enformen, borrowed from Old French enformer, informer (“to train, instruct, inform”), from Latin ?nf?rm? (“to shape, form, train, instruct, educate”), from in- (“into”) + f?rma (“form, shape”), equivalent to in- +? form.

Alternative forms

• enform (obsolete)

Verb

inform (third-person singular simple present informs, present participle informing, simple past and past participle informed)

1. (archaic, transitive) To instruct, train (usually in matters of knowledge).
2. (transitive) To communicate knowledge to.

   • For he would learn their business secretly, / And then inform his master hastily.
3. (intransitive) To impart information or knowledge.
4. To act as an informer; denounce.
5. (transitive) To give form or character to; to inspire (with a given quality); to affect, influence (with a pervading principle, idea etc.).
6. (obsolete, intransitive) To make known, wisely and/or knowledgeably.
7. (obsolete, transitive) To direct, guide.
8. (archaic, intransitive) To take form; to become visible or manifest; to appear.

Synonyms

• (communicate knowledge to (trans.)): acquaint, apprise, notify; See also Thesaurus:inform
• (act as informer): dob, name names, peach, snitch; See also Thesaurus:rat out
• (take form): materialize, take shape; See also Thesaurus:come into being

Derived terms

Translations

Etymology 2

Latin ?nf?rmis

Adjective

inform (not comparable)

1. Without regular form; shapeless; ugly; deformed.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Cotton to this entry?) "Bleak Crags, and naked Hills, And the whole Prospect so inform and rude." (C. Cotton, Wonders of Peake in Poetical Works (1765) 342)

Anagrams

• -formin, F minor, Morfin, formin

Romanian

Etymology

From French informe, from Latin informis.

Adjective

inform m or n (feminine singular inform?, masculine plural informi, feminine and neuter plural informe)

1. deformed

Declension

English

Alternative forms

• voyce (obsolete)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /v??s/
• Rhymes: -??s

Etymology 1

From Middle English voice, voys, vois, borrowed from Anglo-Norman voiz, voys, voice, Old French vois, voiz (Modern French voix), from Latin v?cem, accusative form of v?x (“voice”), from Proto-Indo-European *w?k?s, root noun from *wek?- (“to utter, speak”). Cognate with Sanskrit ???? (v?c), Ancient Greek ?? (óps), Persian ????? (âvâz). Displaced native Middle English steven (“voice”), from Old English stefn (see steven). Compare advocate, advowson, avouch, convoke, epic, vocal, vouch, vowel. Doublet of vox.

Noun

voice (plural voices)

1. Sound uttered by the mouth, especially by human beings in speech or song; sound thus uttered considered as possessing some special quality or character
2. (phonetics) Sound made through vibration of the vocal cords; sonant, or intonated, utterance; tone; — distinguished from mere breath sound as heard in whispering and voiceless consonants.
3. The tone or sound emitted by an object
   • 1712, Joseph Addison, Cato, a Tragedy

     O Marcus, I am warm’d; my heart Leaps at the trumpet’s voice.

4. The faculty or power of utterance

5. That which is communicated; message; meaning.
   • 17th century, John Fell, unknown work

     Let us call on God in the voice of his church.

6. An expressed opinion, choice, will, desire, or wish; the right or ability to make such expression or to have it considered
   • 1697, John Dryden, Aeneid

     Some laws ordain, and some attend the choice / Of holy senates, and elect by voice.

   • Like many of the 7 million other first time voters, she came of age during half a decade of military rule that has governed the country since former general turned Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha seized power in a 2014 coup. "We have had our voice taken away for five years," she says.

7. (archaic) Command; precept.
8. One who speaks; a speaker.
   • 1849, Alfred Tennyson, In Memoriam A.H.H.

     A potent voice of Parliament.

9. (literature) A particular style or way of writing that expresses a certain tone or feeling.
10. (grammar) A particular way of inflecting or conjugating verbs, or a particular form of a verb, by means of which is indicated the relation of the subject of the verb to the action which the verb expresses.
11. (music) In harmony, an independent vocal or instrumental part in a piece of composition.

12. (Internet, IRC) A flag associated with a user on a channel, determining whether or not they can send messages to the channel.

Synonyms

• (sound of human speech): steven, reard
• (opinion): steven, vote, say-so
• (voice of verbs): diathesis, gender (of verbs), grammatical voice, verbal voice

Derived terms

Translations

See voice/translations § Noun.

Etymology 2

From Middle English voysen, voicen, from the noun (see above).

Verb

voice (third-person singular simple present voices, present participle voicing, simple past and past participle voiced)

1. (transitive) To give utterance or expression to; to utter; to publish; to announce
   • 1893, Annie Wood Besant, An Autobiography

     How often he would voice his love of England, his admiration of her Parliament, his pride in her history.

   • 1612, Francis Bacon, Of Great Place

     Rather assume thy right in silence and […] then voice it with claims and challenges.

   • 1622, Francis Bacon, History of the Reign of King Henry VII

     It was voiced that the king purposed to put to death Edward Plantagenet.

2. (transitive, phonology) To utter audibly, with tone and not just breath.
3. (transitive) To fit for producing the proper sounds; to regulate the tone of

4. (transitive, obsolete) To vote; to elect; to appoint
5. (intransitive, obsolete) To clamor; to cry out
   • (Can we find and add a quotation of South to this entry?)
6. (transitive, Internet, IRC) To assign the voice flag to a user on IRC, permitting them to send messages to the channel.
7. (television, film) To act as a voice actor to portray a character.

Related terms

Translations

See voice/translations § Verb.

Middle English

Noun

voice

1. Alternative form of voys