microphone
/ˈmaɪ.kɹəˌfəʊn/US/ˈmaɪ.kɹəˌfoʊn/
microphone noun: a device (transducer) used to convert sound waves into a varying electric current; normally fed into an amplifier and either recorded or transmitted over radio.
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 transmitted over radio.
- Behind the tangled garden of microphones that had sprouted on the lectern, Goldwater spoke softly and casually about his family.1965, Charles McDowell, Campaign Fever: The National Folk Festival, from New Hampshire to November, 1964, Morrow, page 11
- It rained hard through most of Roosevelt's Second Inaugural. Audio tape recordings of the speech feature the tattoo of the rain on Roosevelt's microphone[…]1994, High Definition Television: An Annotated Multidisciplinary Bibliography, 1981-1992, page 112
- A speaking trumpet or hearing trumpet; an acoustic device to concentrate or amplify sound.
Verb
microphone (third-person singular simple present microphones, present participle microphoning, simple past and past participle microphoned)
- To put one or more microphones on or in.
microphone meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu
microphone in Hindi
- transducer of sound waves to electricity
- अणुभाष aṇubhāṣ, माइक्रोफ़ोन māikrofon, माइक māik
microphone in Tamil
- transducer of sound waves to electricity
- ஒலிவாங்கி olivāṅki
microphone in Marathi
- transducer of sound waves to electricity
- अणुभाष aṇubhāṣ
microphone in Urdu
- transducer of sound waves to electricity
- مائِکْرو فون māikro fon, مائِکْروفون māikrofon
More languagesFewer languages
- microphone in Bengali
- মাইক্রোফোন maikrōphōn
- microphone in Telugu
- మైక్రోఫోన్, మైక్రోఫోన్ను, మైక్రొఫోన్
- microphone in Malayalam
- ഉച്ചാഭാഷിണി, ഒലിപെരുക്കി, നാദവികാസിനി
- microphone in Kannada
- ಧ್ವನಿವರ್ಧಕ, ಧ್ವನಿಪ್ರಸಾರಿಣಿ, ಉಲಿಹೆಚ್ಚುಕ, ಸೂಕ್ಷ್ಮ ಧ್ವನಿವರ್ಧಕ
- microphone in Punjabi
- ਮਾਈਕਰੋਫੋਨ, ਮਾਈਕ੍ਰੋਫੋਨ, ਮਾਈਕਰੋਫ਼ੋਨ
- microphone in Gujarati
- માઇક્રોફોન māikrophon
- microphone in Odia
- ଅଣୁଭାଷ aṇubhāṣa
- microphone in Sanskrit
- अणुभाष aṇubhāṣa
- microphone in Sinhala
- මයික්රොපෝනය mayikropōnaya, මෛක්රොනය maikronaya, ශබ්දවාහිනිය śabdawāhiniya
- microphone in Nepali
- अणुभाष aṇubhāṣ
- microphone in Tagalog
- miktinig
- microphone in Arabic
- مِيكْرُوفُون mikrufūn, مَيْكْرُوفُون maykrufūn, مِذْيَاع miḏyāʕ
- microphone in Malay
- mikrofon
- microphone in Indonesian
- mikrofon, pelantang
- microphone in Thai
- ไมโครโฟน mai-kroo-foon
- microphone in Vietnamese
- máy vi âm, micrô, mi-crô, ống thu thanh
- microphone in Myanmar
- ဓာတ်ခွက် dhathkwak, မိုက် muik
Examples of microphone in a sentence
- You shouldn’t have said that. The microphone was on and we were taping.
- The microphone was on air, and the whole country heard the outburst.
- Sound and movement are recordable by means of microphones and cameras.
Synonyms of microphone
Forms of microphone
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | microphones |
| alternative form | 🎙 |
| alternative form | 🎙️ |
| alternative form | 🎤 |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | microphones |
| present participle | microphoning |
| past participle | microphoned |
| past | microphoned |
Origin of microphone
From micro- + -phone.
Words formed from microphone
Questions about microphone
- What does microphone mean?
- Microphone means a device (transducer) used to convert sound waves into a varying electric current; normally fed into an amplifier and either recorded or transmitted over radio.
- What is microphone in Hindi?
- Microphone in Hindi is अणुभाष (aṇubhāṣ), माइक्रोफ़ोन (māikrofon), माइक (māik). See Microphone meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is microphone?
- Microphone can be a noun or a verb.
- How do you pronounce microphone?
- Microphone is pronounced /ˈmaɪ.kɹəˌfəʊn/ (UK).
- What is the plural of microphone?
- The plural of microphone is microphones.
Words near microphone in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: microphone (page history and authors); microphone (Telugu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); microphone (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); microphone (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); microphone (Punjabi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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