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# mic

«mic» in Mova's school dictionary: **Short for microphone: a device that picks up sound so it…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (a mic, mics); verb (mic, mics, micced/miked, miccing/miking — informal)

### meaning for a pupil

1) (informal) Short for microphone: a device that picks up sound so it can be made louder or recorded. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mic/#m1)

2) (verb, informal) To put a microphone on someone: they mic'd up the speaker. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mic/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In everyday and school life, «mic» is used at assemblies, concerts, video calls and games: «Is your mic on?», «You're on mute — turn your mic on». Saying «mic drop» means finishing with a clever line. Phrases: mic check, turn your mic on/off, mic drop, open mic.

### examples

- Can you hear me? Is my mic working? [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mic/#x1)
- The head teacher tapped the mic before speaking. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mic/#x2)
- Please mute your mic during the video lesson. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mic/#x3)
- We sang at the open mic night. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mic/#x4)
- «Mic check, one, two!» [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mic/#x5)
- The singer dropped the mic at the end. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mic/#x6)
- They mic'd up the footballer for the interview. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mic/#x7)
- My gaming headset has a mic. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mic/#x8)

### note

Abbreviation of «microphone»; said «mike» (sometimes spelled «mike»). Informal; in formal writing use «microphone». Plural: mics.

### In the corpora

- [Then Ollie forgot his mic was on.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/405-teams-and-voice-chat/3/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «mic» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mic/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.