mic
EnglishEdit
EtymologyEdit
Abbreviation of microphone. Attested since 1961.
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
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
- 1987, Eric B. & Rakim, I Know You Got Soul
VerbEdit
mic (third-person singular simple present mics, present participle micing or mic'ing, simple past and past participle miced or mic'ed)
- 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 termsEdit
ReferencesEdit
- 2010, “On Language: How Should ‘Microphone’ be Abbreviated?”, in New York Times, July 29.
AnagramsEdit
IrishEdit
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
mic m
MutationEdit
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. |
Middle IrishEdit
NounEdit
mic m
MutationEdit
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. |
RomanianEdit
EtymologyEdit
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.
PronunciationEdit
AdjectiveEdit
mic m or n (feminine singular mică, plural mici)
DeclensionEdit
Declension of mic
AntonymsEdit
Derived termsEdit
NounEdit
mic m (plural mici, feminine equivalent mică)
See alsoEdit
NounEdit
mic m (plural mici)
- (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
Scottish GaelicEdit
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
mic m
- inflection of mac (“son”):
SwedishEdit
NounEdit
mic c
- (slang for) microphone
- 2006, Mattias Bylund, “Stråk-vals”, in Bylunds Blog[1]:
- Funkar inte hans mic?
- Doesn't his mic work?