Issue vs Mutter - What's the difference?

Issue is a related term of mutter.

As nouns the difference between issue and mutter

is that issue is a monacan indian; a member of a mestee group originating in amherst county, virginia while mutter is .

issue

English

Noun

(en noun)

The act of passing or flowing out; a moving out from any enclosed 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.

* 1599 ,

Why had I not with charitable hand

Took up a beggar's issue at my gates

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.

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An opening or outlet, providing for an exit or egress.

* 1881 , :

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

(medicine) 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.

* Shakespeare

Come forth to view / The issue of the exploit.

* Shakespeare

While it is hot, I'll put it to the issue .

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.

(legal) 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.

(finance) A financial instrument in a company, such as a bond, stock or other security; the emission of such an instrument.

(euphemistic) A problem or concern, usually of a mental nature.

He has issues .

An instalment of a periodical; a specific instance of a regular publication

The July issue of the magazine is in shops now.

Derived terms

* feigned issue * general issue * reissue * side issue * wedge issue

Verb

(issu)

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

* 1918 , (Edgar Rice Burroughs), 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), '' 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...

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.

* Bible, 2 Kings xx. 18

thy sons that shall issue from thee

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 turn out (in a given way); to have a specified issue or result, 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.

(legal) 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.

* 2014 , , " 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) (l)

Derived terms

* issuable * issuer

References

Anagrams

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mutter

English

Noun

(en noun)

A repressed or obscure utterance; an instance of muttering.

The prisoners were docile, and accepted their lot with barely a mutter .

(in Indian restaurants) peas

Derived terms

* mutter paneer

Verb

(en verb)

To utter words, especially complaints or angry expressions, indistinctly or with a low voice and lips partly closed; to say under one's breath.

You could hear the students mutter as they were served sodden spaghetti, yet again, in the cafeteria.

The beggar muttered words of thanks, as passersby dropped coins in his cup.

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To speak softly and incoherently, or with imperfect articulations.

The asylum inmate muttered some doggerel about chains and pains to himself, over and over.

* Dryden

Meantime your filthy foreigner will stare, / And mutter to himself.

To make a sound with a low, rumbling noise.

April could hear the delivery van's engine muttering in the driveway.

* Alexander Pope

Thick lightnings flash, the muttering thunder rolls.

Synonyms

* (sense, speak under one's breath) growl, grumble, mumble * (speak incoherently) babble, mumble, murmur, ramble, stutter * (make a low sound) growl, putter, rumble * See also