iPad
English
editEtymology
editFrom i- + pad. Apple trademark, from their "i-" series of products; especially their iOS products, the iPod and iPhone.
Pronunciation
edit- IPA(key): /ˈaɪpæd/
Audio (Southern England): (file)
Noun
editiPad (plural iPads)
- (trademark) A lightweight low-power tablet computer of a particular range from Apple Inc.
- 2023 September 19, Yessenia Funes, quoting Robert D. Bullard, “The Father of Environmental Justice Exposes the Geography of Inequity”, in Scientific American[1]:
- “This is before everyone had [geographic information system] mapping, before iPads, iPhones, laptops, Google,” he says. “This is doing research way back with a hammer and a chisel.”
- (by extension) Any lightweight low-power tablet computer.
- 2014, Stevenson Mukoro, Guns, Death and Mr. Krakauer, Xlibris, →ISBN, page 189:
- I [googled] his name on my Samsung android iPad notebook and familiarised myself with his bibliography before our appointment. Senator Nathan Obadiah Bracken was born in New Jersey but lived in Boston for the first twelve years of his life.
- 2015, Alfred Lenarciak, Napoleon's Eagle Prophecy, AuthorHouse, →ISBN, unnumbered page:
- She opened her bag and took out her Samsung iPad.
- 2021, Roy Paul Shields, Out of Darkness (The Freedom Villagers), Dorrance Publishing, →ISBN, page 80:
- He told me to head back to the colonel. With the iPad thing I had, they were tracking me every step of the way. From that they could get the exact coordinates of the enemy to help us when we attack.
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edit- Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)+
- Jyutping: aai1 pet1
- Cantonese Pinyin: aai1 pet7
- Guangdong Romanization: ai1 péd1
- Sinological IPA (key): /aːi̯⁵⁵ pʰɛːt̚⁵/
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)+
Noun
editiPad
French
editEtymology
editNoun
editiPad m (plural iPads)
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