mic

See also: MIC, míč, and Mic.

English

Etymology

Abbreviation of microphone. Attested since 1961.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmaɪk/
• Rhymes: -aɪk

Noun

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

Verb

mic (third-person singular simple present mics, present participle micing or mic'ing, simple past and past participle miced or mic'ed)

1. Alternative form of mike

   If we add the drum kit, we'll have to mic the orchestra.

   • 2002, Darren Brown, 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, 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, Sound and Recording, page 51:

     but it is extremely useful in applications such as vocals, drums, and the micing-up of guitar amplifiers.

Derived terms

• mic up

References

• 2010, “On Language: How Should ‘Microphone’ be Abbreviated?”, in New York Times, July 29.

Anagrams

• CIM, CMI, ICM, IMC, MCI

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Irish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mʲɪc/

Noun

mic m

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

Mutation

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.

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Middle Irish

Noun

mic m

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

Mutation

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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Romanian

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin *miccus, from Ancient Greek μῑκκός (mīkkós, “small”), variant of μικρός (mikrós). Compare Aromanian njic. Cf. also Sicilian nicu, Calabrian miccu, also Italian miccino. May also be related to Latin mīca (“crumb”); compare mică.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [mik]

Adjective

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

1. little, small

Declension

Declension of mic

		singular			plural
		masculine	neuter	feminine	masculine	neuter	feminine
nominative/ accusative	indefinite	mic		mică	mici	mici
	definite	micul		mica	micii	micile
genitive/ dative	indefinite	mic		mici	mici	mici
	definite	micului		micii	micilor	micilor

Antonyms

• mare

Derived terms

• micșora
• mici
• mititel
• micuț

Noun

mic m (plural mici, feminine equivalent mică)

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

See also

• prunc, băiat

Noun

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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Scottish Gaelic

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [miʰkʲ]

Noun

mic m

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

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Swedish

Noun

mic c

1. (slang for) microphone
   • 2006, Mattias Bylund, “Stråk-vals”, in Bylunds Blog‎^[1]:

     Funkar inte hans mic?

     Doesn't his mic work?

References

• korpus