microphone

From micro- +‎ -phone.

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈmaɪ.kɹəˌfəʊn/

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• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈmaɪ.kɹəˌfoʊn/

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microphone (plural microphones)

A microphone.

1. 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, 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.

• 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).

• (transducer of sound waves to electricity): mic, mike

• → 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

microphone (third-person singular simple present microphones, present participle microphoning, simple past and past participle microphoned)

1. (transitive) To put one or more microphones on or in.

• mike, mike up, bug (if covert), wire up

• neomorphic, pheromonic

From micro- +‎ -phone.

• IPA^(key): /mi.kʁɔ.fɔn/

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microphone m (plural microphones)

1. microphone

   Synonym: micro

• micro

• → Romanian: microfon
• → Turkish: mikrofon

• “microphone”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.