mac

«mac» in Mova's school dictionary: a raincoat (short for mackintosh) — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun (a mac, macs; a Mac, Macs)

meaning for a pupil

1) (UK) A mac is a raincoat (short for mackintosh). tree →

2) A Mac is an Apple Macintosh computer. tree →

3) (informal, US) «Mac» is a way of speaking to a man whose name you don't know, like «buddy». tree →

4) Mac (or Mc) at the start of a name means «son of» in Scottish and Irish names, like MacDonald. tree →

5) Mac and cheese is a dish of macaroni pasta in cheese sauce. tree →

sense in the lessons

In everyday UK life: «Take your mac, it's raining». In computing lessons: using a Mac or a PC. In names and stories: Scottish clans.

examples

• Put your mac on; it's pouring. tree →
• Our school computer room has Macs. tree →
• «Hey, Mac, you dropped your wallet!» tree →
• MacGregor is a Scottish name. tree →
• We had mac and cheese for tea. tree →
• Her yellow mac kept her dry. tree →
• Is this program for Mac or Windows? tree →
• Mac an Da’v turned to him. tree →

note

The computer is written with a capital M: Mac. The raincoat is lower case: mac (also «mackintosh», named after Charles Macintosh). Plural: macs. «Mac» as a way to address a man is old-fashioned US slang.

In the corpora

• Macs can get viruses and other harmful software; they are just attacked less often than Windows computers.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «mac» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.