mic
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mic
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Etymology edit
Abbreviation of microphone. Attested since 1961.
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mic (plural mics)
- Alternative form of mike (“microphone”)
- 1987, Eric B. & Rakim, I Know You Got Soul:
- Picture a mic, the stage is empty
A beat like this might tempt me
To pose, show my rings and my fat gold chain
Grab the mic like I'm on Soul Train
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Verb edit
mic (third-person singular simple present mics, present participle micing or mic'ing, simple past and past participle miced or mic'd or mic'ed)
- Alternative form of mike
- If we add the drum kit, we'll have to mic the orchestra.
- 2002, Darren Brown with Jackie Bushman, Hunting Trophy Whitetails, page 167:
- At 11:00 am, Doug mics up with me on the radio, and I advise him to go back to camp to get a quad, that we have a monster down.
- 2003, Sleazegrinder, Gigs from Hell: True Tales of Rock and Roll Gone Wrong, page 104:
- Imagine playing a venue the size of an aircraft hangar without your tiny amps miced up through the PA!
- 2006, Sarah Davis with Dave Laing, The guerilla guide to the music business, page 164:
- This lacks the gut-punch of miced-up bass but hopefully the player can rise to the challenge and give his or her take extra energy to make up for it.
- 2007, Trev Wilkins, Access all areas: a real world guide to gigging and touring, page 101:
- Dynamics are used extensively for vocals, drums, and 'micing up' amplifiers such as guitar amps but they can be used for almost any application.
- 2009, Francis Rumsey with Tim McCormick, Sound and Recording, page 51:
- but it is extremely useful in applications such as vocals, drums, and the micing-up of guitar amplifiers.
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- “On Language: How Should ‘Microphone’ be Abbreviated?”, in New York Times, July 29, 2010
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mic m
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Irish mutation | ||
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Radical | Lenition | Eclipsis |
mic | mhic | not applicable |
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. |
Megleno-Romanian edit
Etymology edit
From Vulgar Latin *miccus, from Ancient Greek μῑκκός (mīkkós, “small”), variant of μικρός (mikrós). Compare Romanian mic, Aromanian njic.
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mic
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mic m
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Middle Irish mutation | ||
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Radical | Lenition | Nasalization |
mic | mic pronounced with /ṽ(ʲ)-/ |
unchanged |
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. |
Romanian edit
Alternative forms edit
- мик (mic) — post-1930s Cyrillic spelling
Etymology edit
Inherited from Vulgar Latin *miccus, from Ancient Greek μῑκκός (mīkkós, “small”), variant of μικρός (mikrós). Compare Aromanian njic. Cf. also Sicilian nicu, Calabrian Neapolitan miccu, Corsican micca, also Italian miccino. May also be related to Latin mīca (“crumb”); compare mică.
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mic m or n (feminine singular mică, plural mici)
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mic m (plural mici, feminine equivalent mică)
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mic m (plural mici)
Scottish Gaelic edit
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mic m
- inflection of mac (“son”):
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Scottish Gaelic mutation | |
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Radical | Lenition |
mic | mhic |
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. |
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Noun edit
mic c
- (slang for) microphone
- 2006, Mattias Bylund, “Stråk-vals”, in Bylunds Blog[1]:
- Funkar inte hans mic?
- Doesn't his mic work?