different between issue vs voice

English

Etymology

From Middle English issue, from Old French issue (“an exit, a way out”), feminine past participle of issir (“to exit”), from Latin exe? (“go out, exit”), from prefix ex- (“out”) + e? (“go”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: ?syo?o, ?sh(y)o?o, IPA^(key): /??sju?/, /???(j)u?/
• (General American) enPR: ?sh(y)o?o, IPA^(key): /???(j)u/

Noun

issue (plural issues)

1. The action or an instance of flowing or coming out, an outflow, particularly:
   1. (military, obsolete) A movement of soldiers towards an enemy, a sortie.
   2. (medicine) The outflow of a bodily fluid, particularly (now rare) in abnormal amounts.

      The technique minimizes the issue of blood from the incision.
2. Someone or something that flows out or comes out, particularly:
   1. (medicine, now rare) The bodily fluid drained through a natural or artificial issue.
   2. (now usually historical or law) Offspring: one's natural child or children.

      He died intestate and without issue, so the extended family have all lawyered up.

   3. (figuratively) Progeny: all one's lineal descendants.

      Although his own kingdom disappeared, his issue went on to rule a quarter of Europe.

   4. (figuratively, obsolete) A race of people considered as the descendants of some common ancestor.
   5. (now rare) The produce or income derived from farmland or rental properties.

      3. A conveys to B all right to the real property aforementioned for a term of _____ years, with all said real property's attendant issues, rents, and profits.

   6. (historical or rare law) Income derived from fines levied by a court or law-enforcement officer; the fines themselves.
   7. (obsolete) The entrails of a slaughtered animal.
   8. (rare and obsolete) Any action or deed performed by a person.
   9. (obsolete) Luck considered as the favor or disfavor of nature, the gods, or God.
   10. (publishing) A single edition of a newspaper or other periodical publication.

       Yeah, I just got the June issue of Wombatboy.

   11. 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 May 1918 issue of US 24-cent stamps became famous when a printer's error inverted its depiction of an airmail plane.

   12. (figuratively, originally WWI military slang, usually with definite article) The entire set of something; all of something.

       The bloody sergeant snaffled our whole issue of booze, dammit.

   13. (finance) Any financial instrument issued by a company.

       The company's issues have included bonds, stocks, and other securities.

   14. The loan of a book etc. from a library to a patron; all such loans by a given library during a given period.
3. The means or opportunity by which something flows or comes out, particularly:
   1. (obsolete) A sewer.
4. The place where something flows or comes out, an outlet, particularly:
   1. (obsolete) An exit from a room or building.
      • 1881, Robert Louis Stevenson, Virginibus Puerisque:

        How if there were no centre at all, but just one alley after another, and the whole world a labyrinth without end or issue?

   2. (now rare) A confluence: the mouth of a river; the outlet of a lake or other body of water.
5. The action or an instance of sending something out, particularly:

   The issue of the directive from the treasury prompted the central bank's most recent issue of currency.

   1. (historical medicine) A small incision, tear, or artificial ulcer, used to drain fluid and usually held open with a pea or other small object.
      • 2005, James Harold Kirkup, The Evolution of Surgical Instruments, Ch. xxv, p. 403:

        Issues and fontanels were supposed remedies for joint diseases, pulmonary tuberculosis, and other chronic conditions.

   2. The production or distribution of something for general use.

      Congress delegated the issue of US currency to the Federal Reserve in 1913.

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

      The uniform was standard prison issue.

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

      The company's stock issue diluted his ownership.

6. Any question or situation to be resolved, particularly:

   Please stand by. We are having technical issues.

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

      The issue before the court is whether participation in a group blog makes the plaintiff a public figure under the relevant statute.

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

      For chrissakes, John, don't make an issue out of it. Just sleep on the floor if you want.

   3. (rare and obsolete) A dispute between two alternatives, a dilemma.
   4. (US, originally psychology, usually in the plural) A psychological or emotional difficulty, (now informal, figuratively and usually euphemistic) any problem or concern considered as a vague and intractable difficulty.

      She has daddy issues, mommy issues, drug issues, money issues, trust issues, printer issues... I'm just sayin', girl's got issues.

7. The action or an instance of concluding something, particularly:
   1. (obsolete) The end of any action or process.
   2. (obsolete) The end of any period of time.
8. The end result of an event or events, any result or outcome, particularly:
   1. (now rare) The result of a discussion or negotiation, an agreement.
   2. (obsolete) The result of an investigation or consideration, a conclusion.
9. (figuratively, now rare) The action or an instance of feeling some emotion.
10. (figuratively, now rare) The action or an instance of leaving any state or condition.

Synonyms

• (movement of soldiers): sortie, sally; charge (rapid, usually mounted)
• (progeny): descendants, fruit of one's loins, offspring

Derived terms

Related terms

• exit

Translations

Verb

issue (third-person singular simple present issues, present participle issuing, simple past and past participle issued)

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

   The water issued forth from the spring.

   The rents issuing from the land permitted him to live as a man of independent means.

   • 1611, Bible (King James Version), 2 Kings, xx. 18

     ...thy sons that shall issue from thee...

   • 1918, Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Land That Time Forgot Chapter IV

     There was a very light off-shore wind and scarcely any breakers, so that the approach to the shore was continued without finding bottom; yet though we were already quite close, we saw no indication of any indention in the coast from which even a tiny brooklet might issue, and certainly no mouth of a large river such as this must necessarily be to freshen the ocean even two hundred yards from shore.

   • 1922, James Joyce, Ulysses Episode 12, The Cyclops

     A powerful current of warm breath issued at regular intervals from the profound cavity of his mouth while in rhythmic resonance the loud strong hale reverberations of his formidable heart thundered rumblingly...

2. To rush out, to sally forth.

   The men issued from the town and attacked the besiegers.

3. To extend into, to open onto.

   The road issues into the highway.

4. To turn out in a certain way, to result in.
   • 2007, John Burrow, A History of Histories, Penguin 2009, p. 171:

     But, for Livy, Roman patriotism is overriding, and this issues, of course, in an antiquarian attention to the city's origins.

5. (law) To come to a point in fact or law on which the parties join issue.
6. To send out; to put into circulation.

   The Federal Reserve issues US dollars.

7. To deliver for use.

   The prison issued new uniforms for the inmates.

8. To deliver by authority.

   The court issued a writ of mandamus.

   • 2014, Paul Doyle, "Southampton hammer eight past hapless Sunderland in barmy encounter", The Guardian, 18 October 2014:

     Five minutes later, Southampton tried to mount their first attack, but Wickham sabotaged the move by tripping the rampaging Nathaniel Clyne, prompting the referee, Andre Marriner, to issue a yellow card. That was a lone blemish on an otherwise tidy start by Poyet’s team – until, that is, the 12th minute, when Vergini produced a candidate for the most ludicrous own goal in Premier League history.

Synonyms

• (to give out): begive

Derived terms

• issuable
• issuer
• misissue

Translations

References

• issue in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

Anagrams

• Iesus, Susie, usies, ussie

French

Etymology

Old French issue

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /i.sy/

Noun

issue f (plural issues)

1. exit, way out

2. outcome, result

Adjective

issue

1. feminine singular of issu

Further reading

• “issue” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Old French

Verb

issue f

1. feminine singular of the past participle of issir

Noun

issue f (oblique plural issues, nominative singular issue, nominative plural issues)

1. exit; way out
2. departure (act of leaving)

Descendants

• ? English: issue
• French: issue

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