mic
Translingual
[edit]Symbol
[edit]mic
See also
[edit]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]radical | lenition | eclipsis |
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mic | mhic | not applicable |
Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.
Megleno-Romanian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Vulgar Latin *miccus, from Ancient Greek μῑκκός (mīkkós, “small”), variant of μικρός (mikrós). Compare Romanian mic, Aromanian njic.
Adjective
[edit]mic
Antonyms
[edit]Middle Irish
[edit]Noun
[edit]mic m
Mutation
[edit]radical | lenition | nasalization |
---|---|---|
mic | mic pronounced with /β̃(ʲ)-/ |
unchanged |
Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in Middle Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.
Norwegian Nynorsk
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]mic m
Romanian
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]- мик (mic) — post-1930s Cyrillic spelling
Etymology
[edit]Inherited from Vulgar Latin *miccus, from Ancient Greek μῑκκός (mīkkós, “small”), variant of μικρός (mikrós). Compare Aromanian njic. Cf. also Sicilian nicu, Calabrian Neapolitan miccu, Corsican micca, also Italian miccino. May also be related to Latin mīca (“crumb”); compare mică.
Pronunciation
[edit]Adjective
[edit]mic m or n (feminine singular mică, plural mici)
Declension
[edit]singular | plural | |||||||
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masculine | neuter | feminine | masculine | neuter | feminine | |||
nominative- accusative |
indefinite | mic | mică | mici | mici | |||
definite | micul | mica | micii | micile | ||||
genitive- dative |
indefinite | mic | mici | mici | mici | |||
definite | micului | micii | micilor | micilor |
Derived terms
[edit]Noun
[edit]mic m (plural mici, feminine equivalent mică)
Declension
[edit]singular | plural | ||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
indefinite | definite | indefinite | definite | ||
nominative-accusative | mic | micul | mici | micii | |
genitive-dative | mic | micului | mici | micilor | |
vocative | micule | micilor |
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]radical | lenition |
---|---|
mic | mhic |
Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Scottish Gaelic.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.
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
- Norwegian Nynorsk terms with IPA pronunciation
- Norwegian Nynorsk lemmas
- Norwegian Nynorsk nouns
- Norwegian Nynorsk terms spelled with C
- Norwegian Nynorsk masculine nouns
- Norwegian Nynorsk slang
- 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 pronunciation
- 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