different between mike vs garbage

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ma?k/
• Rhymes: -a?k

Etymology 1

Alteration of mic, clipping of microphone. Attested since 1927.

Noun

mike (plural mikes)

1. (informal) A microphone.
   • 1970, Theodore Sturgeon and Edward H. Waldo, "The Pod in the Barrier", in A Touch of Strange, Ayer Publishing, ?ISBN, page 28,

     "Then I say to the recording, for the record," I barked, right into the mike, […]

   • 1981, John Swaigen, How to Fight for What’s Right: The Guide to Public Interest Law, James Lorimer & Company, ?ISBN, pages 118–119,

     Obviously, one must watch what one says in the vicinity of a microphone. More than one person has made a “private” statement in the presence of an open mike.

   • 2007, John Sellers, Perfect from Now On: How Indie Rock Saved My Life, Simon and Schuster, ?ISBN, page 85,

     When the haggard bartender informed us that there would be an open-mike event later in the evening, I got my first sense that not everyone in Manchester cared about the music the city has produced.

Translations

Verb

mike (third-person singular simple present mikes, present participle miking, simple past and past participle miked)

1. To microphone; to place one or more microphones (mikes) on.
   • 1994 September, Jim Gaines, transcribed in Alan di Perna, "Step Lively: Recalling the recording process of SRV’s IN STEP with album producer Jim Gaines", in Guitar World Magazine, reprinted in Guitar World Presents Stevie Ray Vaughan: Stevie Ray In His Own Words, Hal Leonard (1997), ?ISBN, page 81,

     “And sometimes I’d just have to mike the room. You could run into some weird phasing problems with the individual mics because the speakers were all reacting differently.”

   • 1996, J.R. Robinson, quoted in Mark Huntly Parsons, The Drummer’s Studio Survival Guide: How to get the best possible drum tracks on any recording project, Hal Leonard, ?ISBN, page 72,

     He knows me, I know him, and I know how he’s going to mike the drums and what selection of mic’s he's going to use.

   • 2006, Glenn Haertlein, Project Vectus, Lulu, ?ISBN, page 108,

     “Zeb, is everything go on the AV equipment?” I heard Jim ask. ¶ “Yep,” Zeb replied. “I just need to mike him up.” […] “All set,” he said once he clipped the wireless microphone to my shirtfront.

2. To measure using a micrometer.
   • 1983, Tom S. Wilson, How to Rebuild Your Big-block Chevy, HPBooks, ?ISBN, page 98,

     Measure Valve-Stem Diameter—To be positive about it you’ll have to mike the valve stem with a 1-in. micrometer as explained on pages 100 and 101.

Usage notes

• This term is often found in the synonymous phrasal verb mike up, as in the 2006 quotation above.

Translations

Alternative forms

• mic

Etymology 2

From Mike, representing the letter m.

Noun

mike (plural mikes)

1. (military, slang) A minute.

   We'll be there in one zero mikes [i.e. ten minutes].

Etymology 3

Noun

mike (plural mikes)

1. (slang) Short for microgram.
   • 1970, Milton Travers, Each Other's Victims (page 43)

     The beginner's dose may be anywhere from 100 to 250 mikes — micrograms, or millionths of a gram. Most hardened heads need 600 to 800 mikes, and some as many as 1,400 mikes, before they experience any sensation of getting off.

Anagrams

• Keim, Kemi, Kime, kime

Japanese

Romanization

mike

1. R?maji transcription of ??

English

Alternative forms

• garbidge (obsolete or eye dialect)

Etymology

Late Middle English garbage (“the offal of a fowl, giblets, kitchen waste”, originally “refuse, what is purged away”), from Anglo-Norman, from Old French garber (“to refine, make neat or clean”), of Germanic origin, from Frankish *garwijan (“to make ready”).

Akin to Old High German garawan (“to prepare, make ready”), Old English ?earwian (“to make ready, adorn”). More at garb, yare, gear

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /????b?d??/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /????b?d??/
• (US, humorous, imitating a French pronunciation) IPA^(key): /??(?)?b???/
• Hyphenation: gar?bage

Noun

garbage (uncountable) (chiefly US, Canada, Australia)

1. Food waste material of any kind.

   Garbage is collected on Tuesdays; rubbish on Fridays

2. Useless or disposable material; waste material of any kind.

   The garbage truck collects all residential municipal waste.

3. A place or receptacle for waste material.

   He threw the newspaper into the garbage.

4. Nonsense; gibberish.
5. (often attributively) Something or someone worthless.
6. (obsolete) The bowels of an animal; refuse parts of flesh; offal.

Synonyms

• junk, refuse, rubbish, trash, waste
• See also Thesaurus:trash

Antonyms

• artifact, asset, catch, find, prize, recyclable, resource, treasure, valuable

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

garbage (third-person singular simple present garbages, present participle garbaging, simple past and past participle garbaged)

1. (transitive, chiefly US, Canada, obsolete) to eviscerate
   • 1674, John Josselyn, Two Voyages to New England, Made During the Years 1638-63 (quoted in William Butts Mershon, The Passenger Pigeon, 1907, The Outing Publishing Company):

     I have bought at Boston a dozen Pidgeons ready pulled and garbidged for three pence.

   Synonyms: disembowel, eviscerate, gut

Adjective

garbage (not comparable)

1. (informal) bad, crap, shitty

See also

• Wikipedia article on garbage

Middle English

Alternative forms

• gabage

Etymology

From a derivative of Old French garber.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ar?ba?d??(?)/

Noun

garbage (plural garbages)

1. bird dung
2. entrails, offal

Descendants

• English: garbage
• Yola: graabache, graapish

References

• “garb??e, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.