Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A funnel-shaped device used to direct and amplify the voice.
- noun A bullhorn.
- transitive & intransitive verb To transmit (a message) or speak through a megaphone.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A large speaking-trumpet of a conical form.
- noun An instrument devised by Edison for assisting hearing, adapted for use by deaf persons or for the perception of ordinary sounds at great distances.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun 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.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
portable , usuallyhand-held ,funnel -shaped device that is used toamplify a person’s natural voice toward a targeted direction. - verb transitive, intransitive To use a megaphone.
- noun organic chemistry a
cytotoxic neolignan obtained from thelaurel aniba megaphylla
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a cone-shaped acoustic device held to the mouth to intensify and direct the human voice
Etymologies
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Examples
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Does the buggy have a built in megaphone a la Northants? on May 22, 2009 at 3: 52 pm Hogday
Blogs Are For Dogs (2) « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG Inspector Gadget 2009
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Megan Kennedy is called megaphone because she doesn't need one.
The Kennedys William Walsh 2011
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Those include 62-year-old Geoffrey Strand, a financial adviser who has been yelling into his megaphone from the sidelines at nearly every game for the past 32 years.
Alumni Dust Off the Pom-Pons Hannah Karp 2010
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Voice through tin megaphone: First positions please, CUE: Diplo, The Savage Bros, Mr. Dudley, Tommy 3 Jags, Alois, Phil if he's got back from Czechko, etc. Camilla.
Fit for Purpose Peter Ashley 2008
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And they equate it with a person called megaphone guy who just kind of walks into a party with a megaphone.
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‘hasbara’. .yes, plunger. .the megaphone is starting to show up quite regularly.
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That one had a bank job video directed by 500 Days of Summer’s Marc Webb while for this new song, In the Sun, the man with the megaphone is Down With Love and The Break-Up’s Peyton Reed.
VOTD: New She & Him Video From Bring It On director Peyton Reed | /Film 2010
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She told us she wishes that teachers would realize that blasting a sound or using a megaphone is the wrong way to quiet students.
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She told us she wishes that teachers would realize that blasting a sound or using a megaphone is the wrong way to quiet students.
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Rather than an annual publication, once-in-a-lifetime book, or presidential mandate, our megaphone is the prevalence of social media and the interconnectedness of millions of people.
sionnach commented on the word megaphone
1 megaphone = 10^^12 microphones
February 23, 2008