different between mib vs mic

English

Etymology

Perhaps a corruption of marble.

Noun

mib (plural mibs)

1. (games) A marble (glass ball used in games), especially one used as a target.
   • 2002, Norah L. Lewis, Freedom to Play: We Made Our Own Fun, page 114,

     On my first shot of the last game, I hit two mibs, my shooter and one marble exiting the ring, but leaving a snooger, which is a “commie rat” target marble near the rim of the ring.

   • 2002 May, Sean McCollum, For All the Marbles, Boys' Life, page 28,

     Thirteen five-eighths-inch marbles (“mibs”) are set in a cross in the center. Each mib should be three inches from its neighboring mib. Each player shoots with a “shooter,” a marble that's one-half to three-quarter inches in diameter.

   • 2011, Sean Kelly, At the Crossroads: A Teacher's Journey to Understanding Classroom Conflict, Peter Gouzouasis (editor), Pedagogy in a New Tonality, page 36,

     He focused on the mib on the edge of the group inside the circle. The blue one was his favourite and he had it right where he wanted it.

2. (in the plural) A game of marbles.

Anagrams

• BMI, Bim, IBM, bim

English

Etymology

Abbreviation of microphone. Attested since 1961.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ma?k/
• Rhymes: -a?k

Noun

mic (plural mics)

1. 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

Verb

mic (third-person singular simple present mics, present participle micing or mic'ing, simple past and past participle miced or mic'ed)

1. Alternative form of mike

   If we add the drum kit, we'll have to mic the orchestra.

Derived terms

• mic up

References

• 2010, “On Language: How Should ‘Microphone’ be Abbreviated?”, in New York Times, July 29.

Anagrams

• CIM, CMI, ICM, IMC, MCI

Irish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /m??c/

Noun

mic m

1. inflection of mac (“son”):
   1. vocative/genitive singular
   2. nominative/dative plural

Mutation

Middle Irish

Noun

mic m

1. inflection of mac (“son”):
   1. vocative/genitive singular
   2. nominative plural

Mutation

Romanian

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin *miccus, from Ancient Greek ?????? (m?kkós, “small”), variant of ?????? (mikrós). Compare Aromanian njic. Cf. also Sicilian nicu, Calabrian miccu, also Italian miccino. May also be related to Latin m?ca (“crumb”); compare mic?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [mik]

Adjective

mic m or n (feminine singular mic?, plural mici)

1. little, small

Declension

Antonyms

• mare

Derived terms

• mic?ora
• mici
• mititel
• micu?

Noun

mic m (plural mici, feminine equivalent mic?)

1. little boy, child, toddler, tyke, baby

See also

• prunc, b?iat

Noun

mic m (plural mici)

1. (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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [mi?k?]

Noun

mic m

1. inflection of mac (“son”):
   1. genitive singular
   2. nominative plural

Swedish

Noun

mic c

1. (slang for) microphone

References

• korpus