mic

Symbol

mic

1. (international standards) ISO 639-2 & ISO 639-3 language code for Mi'kmaq.

See also

• Wiktionary's coverage of Mi'kmaq terms

Etymology

Abbreviation of microphone. Attested since 1961.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmaɪk/
• Rhymes: -aɪk

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'd or mic'ed)

1. 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.

References

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

Anagrams

• CIM, CMI, ICM, IMC, MCI

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mʲɪc/

Noun

mic m

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

Mutation

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin *miccus, from Ancient Greek μῑκκός (mīkkós, “small”), variant of μικρός (mikrós). Compare Romanian mic, Aromanian njic.

Adjective

mic

1. small

Noun

mic m

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

Mutation

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [maɪk], [mɪkː]

Noun

mic m

1. (slang) microphone

Alternative forms

• мик (mic) — post-1930s Cyrillic spelling

Etymology

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

• IPA^(key): /mik/

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• Rhymes: -ik

Adjective

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

1. little, small

   Antonym: mare

Noun

mic m (plural mici, feminine equivalent mică)

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

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /miʰkʲ/

Noun

mic m

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

Mutation

Noun

mic c

1. (slang) microphone
   • 2006, Mattias Bylund, “Stråk-vals”, in Bylunds Blog‎:

     Funkar inte hans mic?

     Doesn't his mic work?

References

• korpus