(n.) A device to magnify sound, or direct it in a given direction in a greater volume, as a very large funnel used as an ear trumpet or as a speaking trumpet.
Example Sentences:
(1) The cost of the Norwegian approach is that, by treating Breivik like any other defendant, the courts have given him that global megaphone.
(2) He said at a press conference in London that he did not recognise the figure, but would not “negotiate with a megaphone”.
(3) Some will argue that Turnbull needed to avoid megaphone diplomacy – that is, direct public criticism of Trump’s refugee bans – to preserve the US deal to take refugees off Nauru and Manus Island.
(4) The works of this period include Revelation and Fall (1966), in which a nun in blood-red costume and a megaphone shrieks expressionist poems of Georg Trakl, the Missa super l’Homme Armé (1968), a parody of a Latin Mass, and above all Eight Songs for a Mad King (1969).
(5) Newspapers , one tabloid executive argued, provide a megaphone for working people set to suffer most from any deal with the EU.
(6) There were chants of 'If you don't pay your taxes, we'll shut you down' … Megaphones were used … Some protesters were masked.
(7) to a megaphone-brandishing woman with the words "moralising slut" written across her chest (a reference to Russian deputy prime minister Dmitry Rogozin, who called Madonna a moralising "slut" when she expressed support for Pussy Riot).
(8) A federal government frontbencher has warned against “simplistic” calls for a reformation within Islam , arguing “megaphone politics” could jeopardise Australia’s relations with regional neighbours such as Indonesia.
(9) Solomon led the London march early today with a megaphone but found her directions overruled when students, instructed via mobile phones, spontaneously sprinted toward parliament.
(10) Upstairs is a room for journalists, who can access much of the same information – effectively acting as COR’s megaphone, and helping crowdsource information back to it.
(11) Later, protesters unfurled a large rainbow flag in front of the store and read out the testimonies through a megaphone and called for the support of their right to families.
(12) Police have used megaphone warnings from a helicopter to urge residents in the flood-stricken Somerset Levels to leave their homes.
(13) "It is particularly sad, therefore, to find David Bernstein celebrating his CBE by engaging in a megaphone commentary from the sidelines, taking a unilateral swipe at managers, having wholly failed to engage, in any meaningful way, with the LMA and its members during his tenure as FA chairman."
(14) Discreet personally and cautious politically, he will have insisted on megaphone caution from the PM and his cabinet ministers who duly took to the airwaves this week and made like foreign policy depressives ("it's too early to say"; "it could all go wrong"; "there's so much more to do").
(15) Australia’s grand mufti criticised by Coalition over Paris attack comments Read more “Megaphone politics not only distracts from this but has implications for our relationships with our neighbours,” she said.
(16) But it’s never had the nominee of a major party stoking it, encouraging it, and giving it a national megaphone.
(17) "Pick up your litter" was one of the continual announcements over the camp's megaphone.
(18) "I'm not going to get into megaphone diplomacy of shouting from the rooftops, but I do say that both sides need to get round the table to avoid more disruption to Londoners," he said.
(19) 10.54am: The Guardian's Patrick Wintour has just tweeted: Special advisers should work for the whole government and not their individual ministers_ first story after wafflathon — Patrick Wintour (@patrickwintour) June 14, 2012 10.55am: "The volume knob has sometimes been turned really high in our press," Cameron says, riffing on the Leveson's inquiry's likening of the press to a megaphone.
(20) A DJ like him who doesn't realise that his microphone is a megaphone going out to the nation is in trouble because whatever his problems he is in danger of losing some of his allies at the BBC by doing something like this.
Microphone
Definition:
(n.) An instrument for intensifying and making audible very feeble sounds. It produces its effects by the changes of intensity in an electric current, occasioned by the variations in the contact resistance of conducting bodies, especially of imperfect conductors, under the action of acoustic vibrations.
Example Sentences:
(1) "I pulled the microphone in front of my seat, not a knife.
(2) I’ve warned Dave before to mind his ps and qs when the cameras are rolling, but the problem is you can never tell when the microphones are switched on.
(3) The effects of auditory fatigue, using a temporary threshold shift (TTS) paradigm, on cochlear microphonics (CM) and on auditory brainstem-evoked potentials (ABEP), were studied in normal-hearing subjects during the development of permanent threshold shift (PTS).
(4) The microphonic potentials of liverdamage animals was lower about 3.4 dB than potentials of healthy animals.
(5) It consisted of a conventional precordial or esophageal probe connected to a microphone by a rubber adapter.
(6) It's possible that it upsets her to think about the past, or perhaps, these days, she saves her animation for the times when she is holding a microphone and standing in front of a swollen, angry crowd.
(7) The couple projected a united front, standing side by side at a microphone bank and watching attentively as the other spoke.
(8) Controlled acoustic stimuli were presented by sealed systems incorporating probe microphone assemblies.
(9) They propose a double blind test in order to attempt to demonstrate objectively the reasons which experimentally and in the Laboratory decide the choice of a hearing aid with a directional microphone or an omni-directional microphone.
(10) Josiane Nzuki, 15, raised her hand, took the microphone, and asked the organisers of Sunday’s peace concert in Goma, featuring Akon and Jude Law, why they thought the Congolese city was the best place to hold it.
(11) The variability of functional-gain measures is discussed in relation to measures of insertion gain obtained with probe-tube microphones.
(12) That is not what we heard in response.” Activists with Black Lives Matter have disrupted Democratic campaign events before, most recently when presidential candidate Bernie Sanders ceded the microphone to protests in Seattle before eventually walking off the stage.
(13) Each experiment included sound pressure level measurements to define the input signal, cochlear microphonic (CM) measurements to monitor the cochlear condition, interferometric measurements and histological evaluation of the cochleas.
(14) The response of stethoscopes and chest microphones depends on the impedance of the sound source, which must therefore have the same impedance as the body, and must emit a signal related to the sound intensity in the body when no instrument is applied.
(15) Taking the microphone from the presenter, Hayley McQueen, the 63-year-old said: “I want to say something.
(16) I was so angry I took the microphone and said, "Remember this name: David Bowie.
(17) The use of "self-wiring," windscreens, and remote microphone technology make it possible for hearing impaired persons to enjoy communication in one-to-one situations; small and large groups; large listening areas; and settings such as television listening, communicating in an automobile, and counseling with medical, educational, vocational, and spiritual advisers.
(18) Localization was always poorer at 30 degrees azimuth (the smallest used) than at any of the other azimuths (0 degree, 30 degrees, 60 degrees, 90 degrees right and left), regardless of microphone spacing.
(19) It has already been shown that the FFR in normal subjects to tone bursts with single onset phases is made up of a short latency cochlear microphonic potential (CM) and a longer latency neural component (neural FFR).
(20) The breathing sounds were recorded with the small transistor warp type microphone inserted through the nasal orifice into the trachea, main bronchi and segmental bronchi, and were analyzed with sound analyzer.