0 a piece of equipment that you speak into to make your voice louder, or to record your voice or other sounds:
The interviewer asked her to speak into/use the microphone.
1 a device that records sound or increases the loudness of sounds by changing the sound waves into electrical waves
2 a piece of equipment that you use to make your voice louder, or to record something:
Can you show me where the microphone plugs into the tape recorder?
The microphone converts acoustic waves to electrical signals for transmission.
They thrust a microphone in front of me and fired questions at me.
The photographer tripped over a lead, wrenching a microphone from its stand.
The development of the use of the microphone as a performance accessory in the early 1930s was condemned in some quarters.
The story told in the song's text suggested she turn her head between two microphones every few words.
That personal vocal directness is now returning via the microphone.
We wanted the microphone to pick up the parent's speech but not to pick up much of the background noise.
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