Mac

• IPA^(key): /mæk/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Homophones: mack, Mack

See macc for details.

Mac (plural Macs)

1. (US, informal) Used to address a man whose name is unknown.

   Have you got a light, Mac?

   • 1998 May 24, Bearak, Barry, “The Nation: Parallel Universe; Listen Up, Out There. Here's What Cabbies Think of You.”, in The New York Times‎^[1], section 4, page 1:

     TIME was, the stereotypical New York cabdriver was a gabby if slightly gruff man with a Brooklyn accent who knew every pothole in every street in every borough and greeted people with the world-weary query, "Where to, Mac?"

• (person): John

Mac (plural Macs)

1. A diminutive of the male given name Max.
3. (US, Canada) A diminutive for a person with a surname that starts with "Mac" or "Mc".

   Synonym: Macca (UK and Australia)

• Mac Town

Informal diminutive of Macintosh, later adopted by Apple as a trademark.

Mac (plural Macs)

1. A Macintosh computer (made by Apple Inc.).
   • 1987, InfoWorld, volume 9, number 37, page 46:

     Although our Macs served us well, in those early, dark years Macintosh users were effectively excommunicated by the computer establishment.

   • 1991, “Breaking Communications Barriers”, in Compute!, volume 13, number 9, pages 28–31:

     Built by Matthew Weed, a blind political science and history major, and Victor Grigorieff, a computer science and psychology major, the system is based on a Macintosh IIfx, although it can run on earlier models, since each Mac program has a similar interface.

   • 1993, “The New Microprocessors Powerchips”, in Popular Science, volume 243, number 1, page 58:

     Apple, IBM, and Motorola have teamed up to produce this 32-bit chip that will be used in future Apple Macintoshes and IBM PCs. PowerPC systems will run Mac or Unix programs, and possibly Windows software in the future.

   • 1993, “The Newest Appliance”, in U.S. News & World Report, volume 115, number 21, page 90:

     If you invest the time to learn one Windows or Mac program, you'll automatically have mastered the basic skills to use hundreds of others.

   • 2007, “Uninspiring Vista”, in Technology Review, volume 110, number 1, pages 72–4:

     As this shift accelerates, finding software that works with a particular operating system will be less of a concern. People will be able to base decisions about which OS to use strictly on merit, and on personal preference. For me, if the choice is between struggling to configure every feature and being able to boot up and get to work, at long last I choose the Mac.

   • 2008, Glenn Derene, “Mac VS. PC”, in Popular Mechanics, volume 185, number 5, page 86:

     Oddly, the big difference didn't come in our user ratings, where we expected the famously friendly Mac interface to shine.
     Apple's popular commercials have painted the picture in stark terms: There are two types of people, Mac people and PC people.

• PC, personal computer, home computer, desktop computer, personal workstation, graphic workstation, graphics workstation

• Macified, Mac-ified
• Mac-like, Maclike
• Macolyte
• Macquarium

A shortening.

Mac

1. (informal) McMaster University

Mac

1. (Singapore, slang) McDonald's

   Synonym: (Singapore) Macs

• ACM, AMC, C.M.A., CAM, CMA, Cam, MCA, cam

See mac.

• IPA^(key): /mˠak/

Mac m (genitive singular Mhic)

1. Alternative letter-case form of mac (“son”) used in surnames.

• Forms with the definite article are not found.
• The form Mac usually triggers no mutation, but some surnames show lenition of a following consonant.
• The form Mhic triggers lenition of a following consonant, although c and g are often unlenited here.

• Nic

• English: Mac-, Mc-

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “Mac”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN

Borrowed from English March.

• IPA^(key): [mat͡ʃ]
• Rhymes: -at͡ʃ

Mac (Jawi spelling مچ)

1. (Malaysia, Brunei) March (third month of the Gregorian calendar)

   Synonym: Maret (Indonesia)

• (Gregorian calendar months) bulan takwim Gregory; Januari, Februari, Mac/Maret, April, Mei, Jun, Julai, Ogos, September, Oktober, November, Disember ^{(Category: ms:Gregorian calendar months)}

Mac

1. Abbreviation of Machi.

   Coordinate terms: Jan, Feb, Apr, Jun, Jul, Ago, Sep, Okt, Nov, Des