Definitions
device for converting sound waves into electrical energy
Word origin
From translingual Mike, representing the letter m, from English Mike.
Used in a sentence
“1970, Theodore Sturgeon and Edward H. Waldo, "The Pod in the Barrier", in A Touch of Strange, Ayer Publishing, →ISBN, page 28, "Then I say to the recording, for the record," I barked, right into the mike, […]”
“We'll be there in one zero mikes [i.e. ten minutes].”
“Gott strafe the roll-call, hurrah for the 'Mikes,' / Hurrah for the rebel boys that organised the strikes, / For everywhere the roll was called their names they didn't know.”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
Used as a crossword answer2 curated clues
01“Audio device”4 letters
02“Microphone”4 letters
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