microphone

See also: microphône

English

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microphone

Wikipedia

Etymology

From micro- +‎ -phone.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈmaɪ.kɹəˌfəʊn/

• Audio (Southern England):

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

• Audio (Canada):

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Noun

microphone (plural microphones)

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.

Usage notes

• 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

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

Derived terms

• carbon microphone
• hot microphone
• human microphone
• lavalier microphone
• multimicrophone
• people's microphone
• ribbon microphone
• shotgun microphone
• throat microphone

Descendants

• → 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

transducer of sound waves to electricity

Afrikaans: mikrofoon Albanian: mikrofon (sq) m Arabic: مِيكْرُوفُون m (mikrufūn), مَيْكْرُوفُون m (maykrufūn), مِذْيَاع m (miḏyāʕ) Armenian: միկրոֆոն (hy) (mikrofon), խոսափող (hy) (xosapʻoġ) Azerbaijani: mikrofon Bashkir: микрофон (mikrofon) Basque: mikrofono Belarusian: мікрафо́н m (mikrafón) Bengali: মাইক্রোফোন (maikrōphōn) Bulgarian: микрофо́н (bg) m (mikrofón) Burmese: ဓာတ်ခွက် (my) (dhathkwak), မိုက် (my) (muik) Catalan: micròfon (ca) m Chinese: Cantonese: 咪高峯 (mai1 gou1 fung1), 咪高峰 (mai1 gou1 fung1), 傳聲器 / 传声器 (cyun4 sing1 hei3), 咪 (mai1), 咪頭 / 咪头 (mai1 tau4-2) Hakka: 麥克 / 麦克 (mai-khù, mai-kú, mái-kù) Hokkien: 話筒 / 话筒 (ōe-tâng), mài-kù, mái-khù, mái-khó-hong Mandarin: 麥克風 / 麦克风 (zh) (màikèfēng), 話筒 / 话筒 (zh) (huàtǒng), 傳聲器 / 传声器 (zh) (chuánshēngqì), 微音器 (zh) (wéiyīnqì, wēiyīnqì) Crimean Tatar: mikrofon Czech: mikrofon (cs) m Danish: mikrofon Dutch: microfoon (nl) m Esperanto: mikrofono Estonian: mikrofon Finnish: mikrofoni (fi), mikki (fi) (colloquial) French: microphone (fr) m Galician: micrófono Georgian: მიკროფონი (miḳroponi) German: Mikrofon (de) n Greek: μικρόφωνο (el) m (mikrófono) Gujarati: માઇક્રોફોન n (māikrophon) Haitian Creole: mikwofòn Hebrew: מִיקְרוֹפוֹן (he) m (mikrofón) Hindi: अणुभाष (aṇubhāṣ), माइक्रोफ़ोन m (māikrofon) Hungarian: mikrofon (hu) Icelandic: hljóðnemi (is) m, míkrófónn m (colloquial), mæk m (slang) Ido: mikrofono (io) Indonesian: mikrofon (id) Irish: micreafón m Italian: microfono (it) m Japanese: マイクロフォン (ja) (maikurofon), マイク (ja) (maiku) Kazakh: микрофон (mikrofon) Khmer: មីក្រូ (miikroo) Korean: 마이크로폰 (ko) (maikeuropon), 마이크 (ko) (maikeu) Kurdish: Central Kurdish: میکرۆفۆن (mîkrofon) Kyrgyz: микрофон (ky) (mikrofon) Lao: ໄມໂຄຣໂຟນ (mai khō fōn) Latvian: mikrofons m Lithuanian: mikrofonas m Luganda: omuzindaalo Luxembourgish: Mikro m Macedonian: микрофо́н (mk) m (mikrofón) Malay: mikrofon (ms) Maori: hopuoro Marathi: please add this translation if you can Mongolian: Cyrillic: микрофон (mn) (mikrofon) Norman: microphône m Norwegian: Bokmål: mikrofon m Persian: Iranian Persian: میکْروفون (fa) (mikrofon), صِدابَر (fa) (sedâbar) Polish: mikrofon (pl) m Portuguese: microfone (pt) m Romanian: microfon (ro) n Russian: микрофо́н (ru) m (mikrofón) S'gaw Karen: ကလုၢ်ဒၢ (ka lu̱ duh) Scottish Gaelic: microfòn m, togair-fuaime m Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: ми̏крофо̄н m Roman: mȉkrofōn (sh) m Sinhalese: මයික්‍රොපෝනය (mayikropōnaya), මෛක්‍රොනය (maikronaya), ශබ්දවාහිනිය (śabdawāhiniya) Slovak: mikrofón m Slovene: mikrofon m Spanish: micrófono (es) m Swahili: kinasa sauti, mikrofoni Swedish: mikrofon (sv) c Tagalog: miktinig Tajik: микрофон (mikrofon) Tamil: ஒலிவாங்கி (ta) (olivāṅki) Tatar: микрофон (mikrofon) Thai: ไมโครโฟน (th) (mai-kroo-foon) Turkish: mikrofon (tr) Turkmen: mikrofon Ukrainian: мікрофо́н m (mikrofón) Urdu: مائِکْرو فون m (māikro fon), مائِکْروفون m (māikrofon) Uyghur: مىكروفون (mikrofon) Uzbek: mikrofon (uz) Vietnamese: máy vi âm, micrô, mi-crô (vi), ống thu thanh Volapük: mikrofon Yiddish: מיקראָפֿאָן (mikrofon) Zazaki: mikrofon (diq) m

Verb

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.

Synonyms

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

Translations

to put one or more microphones on or in.

Spanish: microfonear, microfonar

Anagrams

• neomorphic, pheromonic

French

Etymology

From micro- +‎ -phone.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mi.kʁɔ.fɔn/

• Audio:

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Noun

microphone m (plural microphones)

1. microphone

   Synonym: micro

Derived terms

• micro

Descendants

• → Romanian: microfon
• → Turkish: mikrofon

Further reading

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