macintosh
IPA: mˈækʌntɔʃ
Root Word: Macintosh
noun
- A Scottish surname from Scottish Gaelic.
- (computing) A brand of personal computer manufactured by Apple Inc.
- A surname.
- (Britain) Alternative form of mackintosh (“a raincoat”) [A waterproof long coat made of rubberized cloth.]
Examples of "macintosh" in Sentences
- We know we would wear a macintosh in the rain instead of a raincoat.
- It seem to be the current top of the crop for netbooks (ignoring macintosh).
- Even then, it was easier and cheaper to animate digitally on borrowed macintosh systems.
- The only thing accurate about the article is that the G1 is to pc what macintosh is to Iphone.
- Suddenly today the 2 managed computers have an additional 'macintosh' computer showing up in the sidebar.
- So until they release a new edition that replaces "macintosh" with "raincoat" and explains that a tam-o-shanter is a woolen scotting cap with a pompom in the middle, I would steer clear of
- And it naturally takes shortcuts to do these categorizations: a red round thing on the table is an apple, fiji, macintosh or not, and an orange round thing is an orange, mandarin, navel or not.