Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. Variant of mackintosh.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. See mackintosh.
Wiktionary
- n. UK A raincoat.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. Same as mackintosh.
- n. (Computers) A brand of personal computer featuring an integrated system in which the hardware and system-operating software were designed by or under the control of a single company, the Apple Computer Corporation; among personal computers, distinguished from the
IBM-compatible orIntel-based series of computers.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a waterproof raincoat made of rubberized fabric
- n. a lightweight waterproof (usually rubberized) fabric
Examples
“Suddenly today the 2 managed computers have an additional 'macintosh' computer showing up in the sidebar.”
“Even then, it was easier and cheaper to animate digitally on borrowed macintosh systems.”
“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.”
“It seem to be the current top of the crop for netbooks (ignoring macintosh).”
“We know we would wear a macintosh in the rain instead of a raincoat.”
“The only thing accurate about the article is that the G1 is to pc what macintosh is to Iphone.”
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“Sponsored Links for macintosh steam valve what's this? macintosh on Daymix”
“The description would probably go something like this: Billy, avoiding the lorry as he crosses the street, into that part of Islington where they sold old books, shakes the rain from his macintosh and wellies.”
“The narrator uses words like "lorry," "wellies" and "macintosh" even though the character is Filipino because the character grew up British.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘macintosh’.
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Gesundheit
Words that sound like sneezes
zucchini, zoology, wysiwyg, woodchuck, withhold, wichita, vacuum, twelfth, syzygy, synchronous, swatch, supersede and 120 more...
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WF - Words from Proper Names
bowdlerize, boycott, caesarean, lynch, pasteurize, sadist, sandwich, hoover, braille, wellington, cardigan, macintosh and 11 more...
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♥
ambrosia, inamorata, gossamer, lily-white, hummingbird, roucoulement, poppy, daisy, calypso, lunula, lamb, dove and 1526 more...
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Words Covered in Faery Dust (M)
words that evoke magic, mystery, mayhem, magnificence or anything else that glimmers in the grass
mace, macintosh, madras, magenta, magic 8 ball, magma, mahogany, maiden, mail, mainsail, maize, malachite and 169 more...
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trademark
all of these are from 7 English
dictionaries and Macquarie dictionary
I havent listed capitalized ones yet
but Viagra would be one and common
words like sterling a sub-machi...agene, adware, airbus, alnico, amberina, amarone, apiezon, aspirin, atebrin, atebrine, autocue, autoharp and 774 more...
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ulyssean
... as in "by James Joyce"
stately, plump, aloft, gurgling, untonsured, chrysostomos, jowl, parapet, jesuit, indigestion, scutter, noserag and 688 more...
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kewpid's Words
moleskine, araldite, dessicate, cellar door, grotesque, fallacy, vendetta, raindrop, panacea, ethereal, hircus, treppenwitz and 446 more...
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Dain's Words
rabble, terminus, archaic, atavism, demiurge, waylay, syzygy, jocoserious, quark, entropy, cinnabar, shamble and 912 more...
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aozuas's Words
sense data, hyperreality, brouhaha, ibid, apophenia, fnord, lackadaisical, schadenfreude, bildungsroman, ready-made, readymade, tergiversar and 654 more...
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eponymous fabrics or articles of clot...
several of these characters seem to have been involved in the Crimean War
cardigan, balbriggan, balaclava, raglan, macintosh, madras, cashmere, angora, denim, oxford, wigan, bloomers and 24 more...
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luxuryluke's Words
rifle, corduroy, ointment, jackknife, hoodwink, nonplussed, myriad, largesse, acumen, macintosh, catastrophy
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strausser's Words
utterly, pathetic, awesome, oblivious, neurotic, savour, stipulate, macintosh, passionate, insane, chai, cinnamon and 75 more...
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angelken's Words
apple, ipod, macbook pro, leopard, tiger, angel, motion, mule, renaissance, iphone, google, aqua and 15 more...
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chiefly british
windlestraw, boffin, poppet, bloody, motorway, telly, git, tyre, windscreen, zebra crossing, panda car, lorry and 61 more...
Tweets
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brtom "A man in a brown macintosh springs up through a trap-door." Joyce, Ulysses, 15 Dec 31, 2007