Mike vs Pike - What's the difference?
mike | pike |
(informal) A microphone.
* 1970, Theodore Sturgeon and Edward H. Waldo, "The Pod in the Barrier", in A Touch of Strange , Ayer Publishing, ISBN 0836935225, page 28,
* 1981, John Swaigen, How to Fight for What’s Right: The Guide to Public Interest Law , James Lorimer & Company, ISBN 0888624220, pages 118–119,
* 2007, John Sellers, Perfect from Now On: How Indie Rock Saved My Life , Simon and Schuster, ISBN 0743277082, page 85,
To microphone; to place one or more microphones () 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 0793580803, page 81,
* 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 0793572223, page 72,
* 2006, Glenn Haertlein, Project Vectus , Lulu, ISBN 1-4116-8414-1, page 108,
To measure using a micrometer.
* 1983, Tom S. Wilson, How to Rebuild Your Big-block Chevy , HPBooks, ISBN 0895861755, page 98,
A very long thrusting spear used two-handed by infantry both for attacks on enemy foot soldiers and as a counter-measure against cavalry assaults. The pike is not intended to be thrown.
* 1790 , , Travels to Discover the Source of the Nile
A sharp point, such as that of the weapon.
Any carnivorous freshwater fish of the genus Esox'', especially the northern pike, ''Esox lucius .
A turnpike.
A pointy extrusion at the toe of a shoe, found in old-fashioned footwear.
* 1861 , The comprehensive history of England Vol. 1
* 1904 , George Nicholls, A History of the English Poor Law in Connection with the State of the Country and the Condition of the People
(diving) A dive position with knees straight and a tight bend at the hips.
* 2000 , (JG Ballard), Super-Cannes , Fourth Estate 2011, p. 167:
* 2008 , , China wins first diving medal at Beijing Olympics Aug 10 2008 [http://www.tsn.ca/olympics/story/?id=245859&lid=sublink05&lpos=headlines_olympics]
(obsolete, UK, dialect) A hayfork.
(obsolete) A pick.
A large haycock.
To attack, prod, or injure someone with a pike.
To quit or back out of a promise.
* 2002 , Sylvia Lawson, How Simone De Beauvoir Died in Australia ,
* 2006 , Pip Wilson, Faces in the Street: Louisa and Henry Lawson and the Castlereagh Street Push ,
* 2008 , Chris Pash, The Last Whale , Fremantle Press, Australia,
A mountain peak or summit.
*, II.ii.3:
*:The pike of Teneriffe how high it is? 70 miles? or 50, as Patricius holds? or 9, as Snellius demonstrates in his Eratosthenes ?
As a symbol mike
is the letter m in the icao spelling alphabet.As a noun pike is
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English
Noun
(en noun)- "Then I say to the recording, for the record," I barked, right into the mike , "[…]"
- 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 .
- 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.
Synonyms
* micVerb
(mik)- “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.”
- 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.
- “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.
- 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.
Synonyms
* (to place a microphone on) micUsage notes
* This term is often found in the synonymous phrasal verb (mike up), as in the 2006 quotation above.Anagrams
*pike
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(wikipedia pike)Etymology 1
(etyl) ultimately a variant form of pick, with meaning narrowed. Cognate with Dutch piek, dialectal German Peik, Norwegian pik. pique.Noun
(en noun)- Each had a small ax in the foreangle of his saddle, and a pike about fourteen feet long, the weapon with which he charged;
- (Beaumont and Fletcher)
- (Charles Dickens)
- During the earlier part of this period, the long pike disappeared from the shoe, but in the later part it returned in greater longitude than ever.
- Thus the statute of , which forbade the fine gentlemen of those times, under the degree of a lord, to wear pikes upon their shoes or boots of more than two inches in length, was a law that savoured of oppression, because, however ridiculous the fashion might appear, the restraining of it by pecuniary penalties would serve no purpose of common utility.
- She sprang into the air and jack-knifed into a clumsy pike before following her hands into the water.
- Guo and Wu took a big lead after the second dive, a back dive in pike position, which the judges awarded three perfect tens for synchronization.
- (Tusser)
- (Raymond)
- (Wright)
- (Halliwell)
Synonyms
* ''see: northern pikeDerived terms
* come down the pike * garpike * pikehead * pikestaff * pikemanVerb
(pik)- Don't pike on me like you did last time!
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- —But Camus piked out, said Carole. Sartre and that lot got pissed off with him, he stood off from the war, he wouldn?t oppose it.
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- Holman accepted the challenge while Norton ‘piked out’; nevertheless Holman won Cootamundra against a strong candidate.
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- If they didn?t go ahead, it would look like they had piked , backed down.