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# mac

«mac» in Mova's school dictionary: **a raincoat (short for mackintosh)** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (a mac, macs; a Mac, Macs)

### meaning for a pupil

1) (UK) A mac is a raincoat (short for mackintosh). [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mac/#m1)

2) A Mac is an Apple Macintosh computer. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mac/#m2)

3) (informal, US) «Mac» is a way of speaking to a man whose name you don't know, like «buddy». [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mac/#m3)

4) Mac (or Mc) at the start of a name means «son of» in Scottish and Irish names, like MacDonald. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mac/#m4)

5) Mac and cheese is a dish of macaroni pasta in cheese sauce. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mac/#m5)

### sense in the lessons

In everyday UK life: «Take your mac, it's raining». In computing lessons: using a Mac or a PC. In names and stories: Scottish clans.

### examples

- Put your mac on; it's pouring. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mac/#x1)
- Our school computer room has Macs. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mac/#x2)
- «Hey, Mac, you dropped your wallet!» [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mac/#x3)
- MacGregor is a Scottish name. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mac/#x4)
- We had mac and cheese for tea. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mac/#x5)
- Her yellow mac kept her dry. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mac/#x6)
- Is this program for Mac or Windows? [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mac/#x7)
- Mac an Da’v turned to him. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mac/#x8)

### note

The computer is written with a capital M: Mac. The raincoat is lower case: mac (also «mackintosh», named after Charles Macintosh). Plural: macs. «Mac» as a way to address a man is old-fashioned US slang.

### In the corpora

- [Macs can get viruses and other harmful software; they are just attacked less often than Windows computers.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/30-how-would-we-know-asking-experts-and-spotting-tricks/12/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «mac» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mac/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.