mic
Translingual
[edit]Symbol
[edit]mic
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Abbreviation of microphone. Attested since 1961.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]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
Derived terms
[edit]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)
- 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.
Derived terms
[edit]References
[edit]- “On Language: How Should ‘Microphone’ be Abbreviated?”, in New York Times, 2010 July 29
Anagrams
[edit]Irish
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]mic m
Mutation
[edit]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. |
Megleno-Romanian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Vulgar Latin *miccus, from Ancient Greek
Adjective
[edit]mic
Antonyms
[edit]Middle Irish
[edit]Noun
[edit]mic m
Mutation
[edit]Middle Irish mutation | ||
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Radical | Lenition | Nasalization |
mic | mic pronounced with / |
unchanged |
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. |
Romanian
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]- мик (mic) — post-1930s Cyrillic spelling
Etymology
[edit]Inherited from Vulgar Latin *miccus, from Ancient Greek
Pronunciation
[edit]Adjective
[edit]mic m or n (feminine singular mică, plural mici)
Declension
[edit]Derived terms
[edit]Noun
[edit]mic m (plural mici, feminine equivalent mică)
Declension
[edit]See also
[edit]Noun
[edit]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 Gaelic
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]mic m
- inflection of mac (“son”):
Mutation
[edit]Scottish Gaelic mutation | |
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Radical | Lenition |
mic | mhic |
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. |
Swedish
[edit]Noun
[edit]mic c
- (slang) microphone
- 2006, Mattias Bylund, “Stråk-vals”, in Bylunds Blog[1]:
- Funkar inte hans mic?
- Doesn't his mic work?
References
[edit]- Translingual lemmas
- Translingual symbols
- ISO 639-2
- ISO 639-3
- English abbreviations
- English 1-syllable words
- English terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:English/aɪk
- Rhymes:English/aɪk/1 syllable
- English lemmas
- English nouns
- English countable nouns
- English terms with quotations
- English verbs
- English terms with usage examples
- English irregular verbs
- Irish terms with IPA pronunciation
- Irish non-lemma forms
- Irish noun forms
- Megleno-Romanian terms inherited from Vulgar Latin
- Megleno-Romanian terms derived from Vulgar Latin
- Megleno-Romanian terms derived from Ancient Greek
- Megleno-Romanian lemmas
- Megleno-Romanian adjectives
- Megleno-Romanian terms inherited from Latin
- Middle Irish non-lemma forms
- Middle Irish noun forms
- Romanian terms inherited from Vulgar Latin
- Romanian terms derived from Vulgar Latin
- Romanian terms derived from Ancient Greek
- Romanian terms with IPA pronunciation
- Romanian terms with audio links
- Rhymes:Romanian/ik
- Rhymes:Romanian/ik/1 syllable
- Romanian lemmas
- Romanian adjectives
- Romanian nouns
- Romanian countable nouns
- Romanian masculine nouns
- Romanian terms inherited from Latin
- Scottish Gaelic terms with IPA pronunciation
- Scottish Gaelic non-lemma forms
- Scottish Gaelic noun forms
- Swedish lemmas
- Swedish nouns
- Swedish common-gender nouns
- Swedish slang
- Swedish terms with quotations