Microphone
Microphone noun - Device for converting sound waves into electrical energy.
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Wire and microphone are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Wire" instead a noun "Microphone".
Wire
Wire noun - A length of braided, flexible material that is used for tying or connecting things.
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- Parodied in the Starsky and Hutch movie, when Huggy Bear goes undercover wearing a wire, consisting of a full size microphone and a huge antenna under his shirt.
Source: Hidden Wire - Subverted in The Simpsons where Moe tells an awful joke, asks if his microphone is on, then gets an apology from Barney as he failed to plug the wire in.
Source: Is This Thing On? -
The original sound effect was created by holding a microphone up to a taut wire while hitting the other end.
Source: Pop-Cultural Osmosis
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Wire and Microphone. (2016). Retrieved 2026, July 30, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/microphone/wire
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