Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun See
mackintosh .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Same as
mackintosh . - noun (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.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun UK A
raincoat .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a waterproof raincoat made of rubberized fabric
- noun a lightweight waterproof (usually rubberized) fabric
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Examples
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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
unknown title 2009
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Suddenly today the 2 managed computers have an additional 'macintosh' computer showing up in the sidebar.
MacFixIt 2009
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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.
Heather McGhee: A Message to Millennials: We Are the Children of Dr. King's Dream Heather McGhee 2012
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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.
Heather McGhee: A Message to Millennials: We Are the Children of Dr. King's Dream Heather McGhee 2012
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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.
Heather McGhee: A Message to Millennials: We Are the Children of Dr. King's Dream Heather McGhee 2012
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It seem to be the current top of the crop for netbooks (ignoring macintosh).
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Even then, it was easier and cheaper to animate digitally on borrowed macintosh systems.
What I really want to do is direct… « Awful Library Books 2010
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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.
Heather McGhee: A Message to Millennials: We Are the Children of Dr. King's Dream Heather McGhee 2012
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We know we would wear a macintosh in the rain instead of a raincoat.
I say pyjama… 2008
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The only thing accurate about the article is that the G1 is to pc what macintosh is to Iphone.
Google’s First Phone: The iPhone With More Buttons - Bits Blog - NYTimes.com 2008
brtom commented on the word macintosh
"A man in a brown macintosh springs up through a trap-door." Joyce, Ulysses, 15
January 1, 2008
chained_bear commented on the word macintosh
"In Glasgow in the 1820s, Charles Macintosh found a use for the coal tar, developing a method of waterproofing cloth. He used it to prepare a special solution of rubber, applied it to two pieces of coat fabric, and called it a raincoat, but other people soon began calling it a macintosh. It was also used as a protective coating on timber, and was widely employed on the new railway system. Its combination with creosote also afforded a thick coating for wood and metals, and it was used as a disinfectant in sewage. Some patents from the 1840s even suggested the early use of tar and coal-tar pitch on road surfaces."
Simon Garfield, Mauve: How One Man Invented a Color that Changed the World (London: Faber and Faber, Ltd., 2000), 24.
October 2, 2017