# mike
## Translingual
### Noun

mike
* Alternative letter-case form of Mike of the ICAO/NATO radiotelephony alphabet.

## English
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈmaɪk/
* Audio (Southern England):(file)
* Rhymes: -aɪk

### Etymology 1

Alteration of mic, clipping of microphone. Attested since 1927.

#### Noun

mike (plural mikes)
* (informal) A microphone.
** 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, […]
** 1981, John Swaigen, How to Fight for What’s Right: The Guide to Public Interest Law, James Lorimer & Company, →ISBN, pages 118–119,
    Obviously, one must watch what one says in the vicinity of a microphone. More than one person has made a “private” statement in the presence of an open mike.
** 2007, John Sellers, Perfect from Now On: How Indie Rock Saved My Life, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, page 85,
    When the haggard bartender informed us that there would be an open-mike event later in the evening, I got my first sense that not everyone in Manchester cared about the music the city has produced.

##### Derived terms

* mike fright
* mike sock
* mike stew
* off-mike
* open mike
* power mike

##### Translations
#### Verb

mike (third-person singular simple present mikes, present participle miking, simple past and past participle miked)
* To microphone; to place one or more microphones (mikes) on.
** 1994 September, Jim Gaines, transcribed in Alan di Perna, "Step Lively: Recalling the recording process of SRV’s IN STEP with album producer Jim Gaines", in Guitar World Magazine, reprinted in Guitar World Presents Stevie Ray Vaughan: Stevie Ray In His Own Words, Hal Leonard (1997), →ISBN, page 81,
    “And sometimes I’d just have to mike the room. You could run into some weird phasing problems with the individual mics because the speakers were all reacting differently.”
** 1996, J.R. Robinson, quoted in Mark Huntly Parsons, The Drummer’s Studio Survival Guide: How to get the best possible drum tracks on any recording project, Hal Leonard, →ISBN, page 72,
    He knows me, I know him, and I know how he’s going to mike the drums and what selection of mic’s he's going to use.
** 2006, Glenn Haertlein, Project Vectus, Lulu, →ISBN, page 108,
    “Zeb, is everything go on the AV equipment?” I heard Jim ask. ¶ “Yep,” Zeb replied. “I just need to mike him up.” […] “All set,” he said once he clipped the wireless microphone to my shirtfront.
* To measure using a micrometer.
** 1983, Tom S. Wilson, How to Rebuild Your Big-block Chevy, HPBooks, →ISBN, page 98,
    Measure Valve-Stem Diameter—To be positive about it you’ll have to mike the valve stem with a 1-in. micrometer as explained on pages 100 and 101.

##### Usage notes

* This term is often found in the synonymous phrasal verb mike up, as in the 2006 quotation above.

##### Alternative forms

* mic

##### Derived terms

* hot mike

##### Translations
### Etymology 2

From translingual Mike, representing the letter m, from English Mike.

#### Noun

mike (plural mikes)
* (international standards) Alternative letter-case form of Mike from the NATO/ICAO Phonetic Alphabet.
* (military, slang) A minute.
    We'll be there in one zero mikes [i.e. ten minutes].

##### Derived terms

* 40 mike-mike

### Etymology 3
#### Noun

mike (plural mikes)
* (slang) Short for microgram.
** 1970, Milton Travers, Each Other's Victims, page 43:The beginner's dose may be anywhere from 100 to 250 mikes — micrograms, or millionths of a gram. Most hardened heads need 600 to 800 mikes, and some as many as 1,400 mikes, before they experience any sensation of getting off.

### Anagrams

* Keim, Kemi, Kime, kime

## Albanian
### Etymology

From mik +‎ -e.

### Noun

mike f (plural mike, definite mikja, definite plural miket)
* female equivalent of mik (“friend”). female friend
    Synonym: mikeshë

#### Declension
### Further reading

* “mike”, in FGJSH: Fjalor i gjuhës shqipe [Dictionary of the Albanian language] (in Albanian), 2006

## Japanese
### Romanization

mike
* Rōmaji transcription of みけ