different between microphone vs microphony
microphone
English
Etymology
From micro- +? -phone.
Pronunciation
- (General American) IPA(key): /?ma?.k???fo?n/
- (UK) IPA(key): /?ma?.k???f??n/
Noun
microphone (plural microphones)
- A device (transducer) used to convert sound waves into a varying electric current; normally fed into an amplifier and either recorded or broadcast.
- 1965: Charles McDowell, Campaign Fever: The National Folk Festival, from New Hampshire to November, 1964, page 11 (Morrow)
- Behind the tangled garden of microphones that had sprouted on the lectern, Goldwater spoke softly and casually about his family.
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:microphone.
- 1965: Charles McDowell, Campaign Fever: The National Folk Festival, from New Hampshire to November, 1964, page 11 (Morrow)
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
- multimicrophone
Descendants
- ? Cantonese: ???
- ? Mandarin: ???
- ? Korean: ????? (maikeuropon)
- ? Lao: ???????? (mai kh?n f?n)
- ? Thai: ???????? (mai-kroo-foon)
Translations
Verb
microphone (third-person singular simple present microphones, present participle microphoning, simple past and past participle microphoned)
- (transitive) To put one or more microphones on or in.
Synonyms
- mike, mike up, bug (if covert), wire up
Anagrams
- neomorphic, pheromonic
French
Etymology
micro- +? -phone.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /mi.k??.f?n/
Noun
microphone m (plural microphones)
- microphone
- Synonym: micro
Derived terms
- micro
Descendants
- ? Turkish: mikrofon
Further reading
- “microphone” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
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microphony
English
Etymology
micro- +? -phony
Noun
microphony (uncountable)
- microphonics (unwanted signal caused by vibrations)
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