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mic

  1. (international standards) ISO 639-2 & ISO 639-3 language code for Mi'kmaq.

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Etymology edit

Abbreviation of microphone. Attested since 1961.

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Noun edit

mic (plural mics)

  1. 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)

  1. 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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Noun edit

mic m

  1. inflection of mac (son):
    1. vocative/genitive singular
    2. nominative/dative plural

Mutation edit

Irish mutation
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.

Adjective edit

mic

  1. small

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Noun edit

mic m

  1. inflection of mac (son):
    1. vocative/genitive singular
    2. nominative plural

Mutation edit

Middle Irish mutation
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.

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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.

Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): /mik/
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  • Rhymes: -ik

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mic m or n (feminine singular mică, plural mici)

  1. little, small
    Antonym: mare

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mic m (plural mici, feminine equivalent mică)

  1. little boy, child, toddler, tyke, baby

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Noun edit

mic m (plural mici)

  1. (often in the plural) a dish from Romanian cuisine, consisting of a grilled ground meat roll in cylindrical shape made from a mixture of beef, lamb and pork with spices
    Synonym: mititel

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mic m

  1. inflection of mac (son):
    1. genitive singular
    2. nominative plural

Mutation edit

Scottish Gaelic mutation
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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mic c

  1. (slang for) microphone
    • 2006, Mattias Bylund, “Stråk-vals”, in Bylunds Blog[1]:
      Funkar inte hans mic?
      Doesn't his mic work?

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