a device that is used for recording sounds or for making your voice louder when you are speaking or singing to an audienceto speak into the microphoneTheir remarks were picked up by the hidden microphones.Wordfinderconcertaudience,auditorium,concert,interval,microphone,perform,programme,soloist,support,venueOxford Collocations Dictionaryadjectiveboom,cordless,headset,…verb + microphonespeak into,use,check,…microphone + verbpick something up,record something,amplify something,…microphone + nouninput,jack,stand,…prepositionbehind a/the microphone,in front of a/the microphoneSeefull entrySee related entries:Film-making equipment,Live musicExtra examplesHe was wearing a hidden microphone.Interviewees are placed in front of the microphone and grilled.The voice of Formula One is back behind the microphone for a new series.The microphone picks up the surrounding sounds.There’s a place to plug in an external microphone.Unfortunately we were near an open microphone and all his colleagues heard what we said.
See microphone in the Oxford Advanced American Dictionary
