MacBook
English edit
Etymology edit
A trademark; apparently a blend of Macintosh + notebook.
Noun edit
MacBook (plural MacBooks)
- A MacBook-brand notebook computer, manufactured by Apple Computer.
- 2006, Maria Langer, Miraz Jordan, WordPress 2, page 135:
- Hooo, boy! Sometimes I just can't let things rest. I have the new MacBook Pro.
- 2007, Paul Ruditis, Everyone's a Critic, Simon and Schuster,, →ISBN, page 52:
- The faux hippie dude working on his top-of-the-line seventeen-inch MacBook Pro looked way annoyed.
- 2007 November 11, Jay McInerney, “Faking It”, in New York Times:
- In Bayard's nonreading utopia the printing press would never have been invented, let alone penicillin or the MacBook.
- 2008, Stephen James, David Thomas, How to Hit a Curve Ball, Grill the Perfect Steak, and Become a Real Man, Tyndale House Publishers,, →ISBN, page 114:
- I felt like such a wimp, sitting there with my MacBook and a 2 percent, decaf latte.
- 2008 March 18, “Now Blogging: Israel's Secret Service”, Bryant Park Project, National Public Radio
- Now, normally, you would trip, you'd get back up, but apparently he was carrying his fancy new MacBook Air, and he was trying to save the MacBook Air from falling […]
Alternative forms edit
Related terms edit
Translations edit
French edit
Etymology edit
Unadapted borrowing from English MacBook.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
MacBook m (plural MacBooks)
- MacBook
- Hypernyms: ordinateur portable, ordinateur
Polish edit
Etymology edit
Unadapted borrowing from English MacBook.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
MacBook m animal
Declension edit
Declension of MacBook
singular | plural | |
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nominative | MacBook | MacBooki |
genitive | MacBooka | MacBooków |
dative | MacBookowi | MacBookom |
accusative | MacBooka | MacBooki |
instrumental | MacBookiem | MacBookami |
locative | MacBooku | MacBookach |
vocative | MacBooku | MacBooki |
Further reading edit
- MacBook in Polish dictionaries at PWN
Portuguese edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
MacBook m (plural MacBooks)
- MacBook (device)