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microphone

noun as in instrument that transforms sound waves into electric currents

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You can always check your Zoom setup by joining a test meeting, in which the service will play a sound to check your speakers and record a short audio clip before playing it back to test your microphone.

We saw it with the right-to-vote movement and racial -equality, so many athletes took the microphone and promoted a cause they believe in.

From Time

A high-sensitivity microphone picks up even the slightest sound and can record and analyze noise to determine sleep quality.

He told me I should have my microphone turned off on air, so that didn’t go down so well.

From Ozy

One stepped to the microphone to ask a question about police officers’ mental and physical health.

She found a way to make little kitten steps to the microphone in unison with the music.

Both get electronics, but the proffered image for boys is a microphone; for girls, a radio.

Yeah, having a microphone and so many people under your control always frightened me.

Barrett had chanced to place a paternal hand on her head as he passed the microphone to the student next to her.

After about one minute of rambling, a woman runs up on stage and directs someone to turn his microphone off.

The chief engineer connected up, then hung the microphone between the two front seats.

The engineer tapped on the microphone, and the tap, greatly amplified, reverberated across the airstrip.

He handed the governor the microphone and swung into position for a run over the troops on the road.

His earlier self, who had blithely toured Valier trailing the microphone wires without any real premonition of trouble.

The discovery of the microphone by Professor Hughes has enabled us to understand the reason of this failure.

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On this page you'll find 11 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to microphone, such as: null, null, bug, wire, amplifier, and megaphone.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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