microphone
See also: microphône
English
editEtymology
editPronunciation
edit- (UK) IPA(key): /ˈmaɪ.kɹəˌfəʊn/
Audio (Southern England): (file) - (General American) IPA(key): /ˈmaɪ.kɹəˌfoʊn/
Audio (Canada): (file)
Noun
editmicrophone (plural microphones)
- A device (transducer) used to convert sound waves into a varying electric current; normally fed into an amplifier and either recorded or transmitted over radio.
- 1965, Charles McDowell, Campaign Fever: The National Folk Festival, from New Hampshire to November, 1964, Morrow, page 11:
- Behind the tangled garden of microphones that had sprouted on the lectern, Goldwater spoke softly and casually about his family.
- 1994, High Definition Television: An Annotated Multidisciplinary Bibliography, 1981-1992[1], page 112:
- It rained hard through most of Roosevelt's Second Inaugural. Audio tape recordings of the speech feature the tattoo of the rain on Roosevelt's microphone […]
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:microphone.
Usage notes
edit- Metaphors for many microphones (such as can be observed at a press conference) include garden of microphones and sea of microphones. Wall of microphones is used both figuratively (of a group of reporters) and literally (a wall covered with microphones).
Synonyms
editDerived terms
editDescendants
edit- → Cantonese: 咪高峰 (mai1 gou1 fung1)
- → Chichewa: maikolofoni
- → Fijian: maikorofoni
- → Hausa: makirufo
- → Korean: 마이크로폰 (maikeuropon)
- → Lao: ໄມໂຄຣໂຟນ (mai khōn fōn)
- → Portuguese: microfone
- → Shona: maikorofoni
- → Thai: ไมโครโฟน (mai-kroo-foon)
- → Welsh: meicroffon
Translations
edittransducer of sound waves to electricity
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Verb
editmicrophone (third-person singular simple present microphones, present participle microphoning, simple past and past participle microphoned)
- (transitive) To put one or more microphones on or in.
Synonyms
editTranslations
editto put one or more microphones on or in.
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Anagrams
editFrench
editEtymology
editPronunciation
editNoun
editmicrophone m (plural microphones)
- microphone
- Synonym: micro
Derived terms
editDescendants
editFurther reading
edit- “microphone”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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- en:Broadcasting
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- French terms prefixed with micro-
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- French nouns
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- fr:Sound engineering