MacBook

English

MacBook
MacBook Air

Etymology

A trademark; apparently a blend of Macintosh + notebook.

Noun

MacBook (plural MacBooks)

  1. 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

Translations

French

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English MacBook.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /mak.buk/

Noun

MacBook m (plural MacBooks)

  1. MacBook
    Hypernyms: ordinateur portable, ordinateur

Polish

MacBook

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English MacBook.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈmaɡ.buk/
  • Rhymes: -aɡbuk
  • Syllabification: Mac‧Book

Noun

MacBook m animal

  1. MacBook

Declension

Further reading

  • MacBook in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Portuguese

Pronunciation

 
  • (Brazil) IPA(key): /ˌmɛ.kiˈbu.ki/, /ˌmɛkˈbuk/
    • (Southern Brazil) IPA(key): /ˌmɛkˈbuk/, /ˌmɛ.kiˈbu.ki/
  • (Portugal) IPA(key): /ˌmɛkˈbuk/ [ˌmɛkˈβuk]

Noun

MacBook m (plural MacBooks)

  1. MacBook (device)
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