Definition of Microphone

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Microphone

An instrument for intensifying and making audible very feeble sounds. It produces its effects by the changes of intensity in an electric current, occasioned by the variations in the contact resistance of conducting bodies, especially of imperfect conductors, under the action of acoustic vibrations.

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Microphone Quotations

I like to hold the microphone cord like this, I pinch it together, then I let it go, then you hear a whole bunch of jokes at once.
Mitch Hedberg

Sir one more comment like that and I will strangle you with my microphone wire!
Adam Sandler

Well I have a microphone and you don't so you will listen to every damn word I have to say!
Adam Sandler

I have a microphone on one ankle and an ankle bracelet on the other, so I'm well balanced today.
Martha Stewart

I was a shy kid with a broom handle that I pretended was a microphone.
Patti LaBelle

I play a percussion instrument, not a musical saw; it needs no amplification. Where it's needed, they put a microphone in front of the bass drum. But, I don't think it's necessary to play that way every night.
Buddy Rich

I like to feel the burn of the audience's eyes when I'm whispering all my darkest secrets into the microphone.
Conor Oberst

What is the value of sticking a microphone in a man's face right after he has learned of his wife's death?
Jessica Savitch

I found at an early age the times when I learned the most about myself was when I got thrown out there on a stage in front of a microphone when you didn't really want to be out there, where you're kind of afraid.
Andrew Shue

It's funny, though, because when I first started going to races after we met, I was extremely nervous. It's like being backstage and hoping you don't trip over something or break an amp or accidentally speak into a live microphone, so I was really hesitant.
Ashley Judd

Microphone Translations

microphone in Dutch is microfoon
microphone in French is microphone
microphone in German is Mikrofon, Mikrophon
microphone in Portuguese is microfone
microphone in Swedish is mikrofon

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