gun microphone
- noun
- /ɡʌn ˈmaɪkrəˌfoʊn/
- Specialized
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micrófono direccional
- The sound engineer used a gun microphone to capture dialogue from across the street.
Examples
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Due to its narrow pickup pattern, the gun microphone minimizes background noise effectively.
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A gun microphone is ideal for wildlife recording because it can pick up distant sounds.
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The director used a gun microphone to capture the dialogue.
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Have you ever seen a gun microphone in action?
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A gun microphone is ideal for wildlife recording because it can pick up distant sounds.
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Due to its narrow pickup pattern, the gun microphone minimizes background noise effectively.
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The sound engineer used a gun microphone to capture dialogue from across the street.
Synonyms
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A microphone that picks up sound mainly from one direction to reduce background noise
A long, narrow microphone that records sound clearly from one direction
A long narrow microphone that picks up sound from one direction, often from far away
A long, narrow microphone that picks up sound from far away in one direction
A microphone that mostly picks up sound from one direction to reduce background noise
How Directional
- Specialized
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Surface Forms
Morphology
gun + microphone
The noun-noun compound combines 'gun' (an object associated with aiming/pointing and a barrel shape) with 'microphone', so a learner can infer a microphone that is aimed/pointed or barrel-shaped to capture distant sound. This compositional, physical-metaphor mapping is straightforward and follows common compound patterns, so a B1 learner who knows both words would likely understand the intended meaning.
Etymology
Gun microphone comes from the device's long, tube-like shape that looks like a gun and from how you point it straight at a sound to pick it out from far away. That's why the term means 'a microphone you aim to record sounds from a distance'.