iPad en · NOUN
Pronunciation
- /ˈaɪpæd/
- (Southern-England) audio
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₁én Proto-Indo-European *-tér Proto-Indo-European *h₁n̥tér Proto-Italic *n̥ter Latin inter Latin inter-bor. English inter- Proto-Germanic *natją Proto-West Germanic *nati Old English nett Middle English net English net Proto-Indo-European *werǵ- Proto-Indo-European *-om Proto-Indo-European *wérǵom Proto-Germanic *werką Proto-West Germanic *werk Old English weorc Middle English werk English work English network English internetwork English Internet English i- English pad English iPad From i- + pad. Apple trademark, from their "i-" series of products; especially their iOS products, the iPod and iPhone.
Meanings
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(qualifier:trademark) A lightweight low-power tablet computer of a particular range from Apple Inc.
He was watching a movie on his iPad.
The ordeal is a world away from Kira now as she plays games on her new iPad while absently talking about downloading more apps to play music, and voicing her excitement over reuniting soon with her grandfather’s girlfriend.
2022 April 28, Sandi Sidhu, Roman Tymotsko and Oleksandra Titorova, “After epic journey, orphaned Ukrainian girl is reunited with grandfather”, in CNN:“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.”
2023 September 19, Yessenia Funes, quoting Robert D. Bullard, “The Father of Environmental Justice Exposes the Geography of Inequity”, in Scientific American:
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(broadly) Any lightweight low-power tablet computer.
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.
2021, Roy Paul Shields, Out of Darkness (The Freedom Villagers), Dorrance Publishing, →ISBN, page 80:She opened her bag and took out her Samsung iPad.
2015, Alfred Lenarciak, Napoleon's Eagle Prophecy, AuthorHouse, →ISBN, unnumbered page: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.
2014, Stevenson Mukoro, Guns, Death and Mr. Krakauer, Xlibris, →ISBN, page 189:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| iPads | Number=Plur | lexicographic |
Deriveds
iPad baby · iPad kid · iPad parent · iPad child · iPadOS