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Definition: Mac |
MacNoun1. (British) a waterproof raincoat made of rubberized fabric. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "mac" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1415. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Computing | MAC 1. Media Access Control. 2. Early system on Ferranti Mercury. Listed in CACM 2(5):16 (May 1959). Mac Macintosh. Source: The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing. |
Slang | Verb. Source: Members of an ultimate frisbee team, here at the University of Oregon use this word as a part of their originated slang. Definition: Mac is an altitude connection between the frisbee and the player. When the frisbee is caught in mid-flight. Context: The word mac is used when a player has met the frisbee mid-air and went to get it, rather than stand there and wait for it to come to them. Social Source: U of O Ultimate FrisbeePlayers. Source: Compiled by The University of Oregon. (additional references) |
| Adjective. Source: Comes from the word macho. Definition: Exhibiting machismo. Context: A word used by Berkeley youth when describing a person who converses a lot with the opposite sex. Social Source: Kids from Berkeley, California. Source: Compiled by The University of Oregon. (additional references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
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The Macintosh, now correctly called the Mac (since its introduction, Apple has officially changed the name of the computer to Mac), is a family of personal computers manufactured by Apple Computer, based in Cupertino, California, USA.
Launched in January, 1984 with a famous Super Bowl commercial, it was the first computer to popularize the graphical user interface (GUI, pronounced "gooey").
The operating system, simply called the System Software or System, officially became known as the Mac OS as of version 7.6. In March 2001, Apple introduced a modern and secure Unix-based successor, Mac OS X.
From its inception, the Macintosh has introduced or popularized a number of innovations adopted later by other PCs and operating systems:
- A graphical user interface, icons, a desktop, etc.
- The use of a mouse or other pointing device in personal computing (later, the standardization of an optical mouse on all desktop machines)
- WYSIWYG text and graphics editing ("what you see is what you get")
- Long file names (originally 31 characters, now 255)
- The PostScript laser printer
- Desktop publishing
- The SCSI interface
- Audio (both speakers and microphone) as a standard feature
- A CD-ROM drive as a standard feature
- Windows that may span multiple monitors
- Ethernet support as standard feature
- FireWire, also known as IEEE 1394 or iLink (Sony)
- AirPort wireless networking, also known as IEEE 802.11b and IEEE 802.11g
- The introduction of the 3.5" floppy disk as a standard feature (Macintosh, 1984)
- The abandonment of the floppy disk (iMac August 1998 and Power Macintosh G3 Blue & White January 1999)
- The first commercially available computer to feature USB for peripheral connection.
- A modern RISC-based architecture in the form of the PowerPC processor, developed jointly by Apple, IBM and Motorola (Power Macintosh 6100, 1994)
- Aesthetic and ergonomical industrial design
History
Steve Jobs and a number of Apple engineers visited Xerox PARC in 1979, three months after the Lisa and Macintosh projects had begun. They had been invited by Xerox, an investor in Apple, to see the Xerox Alto and Xerox Star computers, which were pioneers in usable GUI user interface technology. There is debate over the degree of impact that this visit had on Apple's products -- Apple's GUIs ended up working and looking different from the PARC GUIs, and GUIs had been an active area of computing research since the late 1960s -- but it is clear that the Xerox visits were extremely influential on the development of the Lisa and Macintosh.The Macintosh's predecessor, the Lisa computer, was introduced in January 1983 for a price of $9,995.00 with many of the GUI-related innovations later seen on the Macintosh. It was aimed at business customers but was too much of a hard sell at the time; it was not a success for Apple, and the line was discontinued in 1986.
The Macintosh was introduced on January 22, 1984, with a famous Super Bowl commercial featuring a female athlete throwing a hammer through a giant image of a dictator ("Big Brother", vaguely reminiscent of the dominant computer maker at that time: IBM). The Mac went on sale two days later for a price of $2,495.00.
Although the Mac garnered an immediate enthusiastic following, it was too radical of a departure for most. Since the machine was entirely designed around the GUI, existing command-line programs had to be redesigned and rewritten, a challenging undertaking that many software developers shied away from, which initially led to a lack of software for the new system.
In 1985, the combination of the Mac and its GUI with Adobe PageMaker and Apple's LaserWriter printer enabled a low-cost solution for designing and previewing printed material, an activity that came to be known as desktop publishing. Interest in the Mac exploded, and it has continued to be the standard platform for publishing and printing houses.
By the early 1990s, it was thought by some that RISC-architecture CPUs would soon dramatically outpace the speed increases occurring over the same time in CISC CPUs such as the Macintosh's Motorola 68000 series and Intel's Pentium series. The AIM alliance of Apple Computer, IBM and Motorola was announced to create a series of RISC CPUs called the PowerPC. Existing Macintosh software that had been written for the 68000 series CPUs -- including some large sections of the Mac OS -- were made to run with a software emulator. The PowerPC remains the Macintosh CPU to date, although the architectural benefits and speed differences of RISC versus CISC remain controversial.
In 2000, the Macintosh made a second fundamental change, this time in its operating system, by switching to the Mach and BSD Unix-based Mac OS X.
See List of Macintosh models grouped by CPU.
Clones
The Apple II and IBM PC computer lines had been "cloned" by other manufacturers who had reverse engineered the minimal amount of firmware in the computers' ROM chips and subsequently legally produced computers that would run the same software. These clones were seen by Apple as a threat; Apple II sales had presumably suffered from the competition provided by Franklin Computer Corporation and its ilk. (Subsequently, the threat proved to be real; today, Dell Computer, Gateway Computer, and Hewlett-Packard all sell more IBM PC compatible computers than IBM does.)The Macintosh's system software strategy was created with an eye toward suppressing any Mac clones. The Macintosh system software was a very large amount of complicated code that embodied the Mac's entire set of APIs, including the use of the GUI and file system, and a large amount of this system software was included in the Macintosh's ROM chips. Hence any competitor who attempted to create a Macintosh clone would have to either illegally duplicate all the copyrighted code in the ROMs -- in which case Apple could legally squash the manufacturer -- or reverse-engineer the ROMs, which would have been an enormous and costly process without certainty of success.
The strategy was successful; for years, several manufacturers created Macintosh clones, but they obtained their ROMs by actually purchasing one of Apple's Macintosh computers and removing from it the required parts, then installing those parts in the clone's case. This resulted in very expensive clones that were never popular, and Apple could safely say that its share of the Macintosh computer market was not in danger.
However, by 1995, Apple owned only about 7% of the worldwide market share of computers, and decided to launch a clone program, by which it would license the Macintosh ROMs and system software to other manufacturers who agreed to pay a royalty. The aim was to increase Apple's market share in the desktop computer market. From early 1995 to mid-1997, it was possible to buy PowerPC-based clone computers, running Mac OS, from Motorola, Power Computing, and Umax. The styling on the Mac clones often more closely resembled that of a PC than of a Mac, but the clones frequently offered a lower price and sometimes better performance.
Soon after Steve Jobs' return to Apple, he terminated the clone program. He stated that the clone program was ill-conceived and had been a result of "institutional guilt", meaning that there had been a widely held belief at Apple that had the company aggressively pursued a legal cloning program early in the history of the Macintosh, consumers might have turned to low-priced Macintosh clones rather than low-priced IBM PC compatible computers, and Apple might have ended up in the position currently occupied by Microsoft -- an extremely profitable company with low margins with a wide base of consumers perpetually dependent on its system software products. By now, Jobs stated, it was too late for this to happen; the clone program was doomed to failure from the start; and since Apple mostly made money by selling computer hardware, for the most part, it ought not engage in a licensing program to reduce its hardware sales.
Models
See also:
- iBook
- iMac
- Mac II
- Mac Plus
- Mac SE
- Classic
- PowerBook
- PowerBook G3
- PowerBook G4
- Power Macintosh
- Power Macintosh G3
- Power Macintosh G4
- Power Macintosh G4 Cube
- Power Macintosh G5
- Xserve
- AirPort networking
- AppleScript
- Apple v. Microsoft
- Carbon programming
- Cocoa programming
- Firewire
- .Mac
- Macworld Conference & Expo
- WYSIWYG
External links
- Articles from Jef Raskin about the history of the Macintosh
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Apple Macintosh."
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- Media Access Control - hence MAC address
- (erroneously) Apple Macintosh
- mandatory access control
- Mid-American Conference, US collegiate sports conference47
- Middle Atlantic Conference, US collegiate sports conference, also it parent group, the Middle Atlantic Corporation
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "MAC."
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In computer networking a Media Access Control address or MAC address is a identifier physically stored inside a network card or similar network interface and used to assign globally unique addresses in some OSI model Layer 2 networks. MAC addresses are assigned by the IEEE, and are used in many widely used network technologies, including (but not limiting to) the following:
Since the original designers of Ethernet had the foresight to use a 48 bit address space, there are potentially 248 or 281 million million possible MAC addresses. The IEEE hands out 24-bit OUI prefixes to organizations, effectively allocating blocks of 224 (around 16 million) MAC addresses at a time.
- Ethernet
- Token ring
- 802.11 wireless networks
- ATM (switched virtual connections only, as part of an NSAP address)
Although MAC addresses are permanent by design, several mechanisms allow their modification. As an example, Internet gateway routers allow the network administrator to set the WAN interface MAC address, to fool ISPs that bind their service to a specific NIC. Also, running Linux, one can arbitrarily set the MAC address to fool software license keys tied to specific NICs using the command
ifconfig eth0 hw ether 00:01:02:03:04:05(This needs to be done before network initialization and is not permanent.)
See also: NSAP address for another endpoint addressing scheme.
External links
- IEEE OUI and Company_id Assignments: http://standards.ieee.org/regauth/oui/index.shtml
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "MAC address."
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Mac OS is Apple Computer's operating system for Apple Macintosh computers. Mac OS was the first commercially successful operating system which used a graphical user interface. The Macintosh team included Bill Atkinson and Jef Raskin.
Mac OS can be considered two families of operating systems:
- An older and now unsupported "classic" Mac OS (the system that shipped with the first Mac in 1984 and its descendants, culminating with Mac OS 9)
- The newer Mac OS X (pronunced oh-es-ten). Mac OS X incorporates elements of BSD Unix, OPENSTEP, and Mac OS 9. Its low-level UNIX-based foundation, Darwin, is open source.
Classic Mac OS
The "classic" Mac OS is characterized by its total lack of a command line; it is a 100% graphical operating system. Heralded for its ease of use, it is also criticized for its almost total lack of memory management, cooperative multitasking, and susceptibility to extension conflicts. "Extensions" are program modules that extend the operating system, providing additional functionality (such as a networking) or support for a particular device. Some extensions are prone not to work properly together, or only when loaded in a particular order. Troubleshooting Mac OS extensions can be a time-consuming process.The MacOS also introduced a new type of filesystem, which contained two different "forks" for a file. It was innovative at the time for separating out parameters into the resource fork, and raw data in the "data fork". However, it became quite a challenge to interoperate with other operating systems which did not recognize such a system.
The term "Mac OS" was not officially used until 1996 with the release of Mac OS 7.6 - prior to that the Macintosh operating system software was simply known as "The System", or by its version number, e.g. System 6 or System 7. Another common term was "the Toolbox". Apple deliberately played down the existence of the operating system in the early years of the Mac to help make the machine appear more user-friendly and to distance it from other systems such as MS-DOS, which were portrayed as arcane and technically challenging. With Mac, you turned it on, it just worked.
By the late 1990s, it was clear the useful life of this 1980s-era technology was coming to an end, with other more stable multitasking operating systems being developed.
Mac OS X
Mac OS X remedied this situation, bringing Unix-style memory management and preemptive multitasking. Improved memory management allowed more programs to run at once and virtually eliminated the possibility of one program crashing another. However, since this puts higher demands on system resources, Mac OS X is only officially supported on G3 and newer processors. (It runs poorly on many early G3 machines). Mac OS X has a compatibility layer for running older Mac applications, but compatibility is not 100%.There are a variety of views on how the Macintosh was developed, and where the underlying ideas originated. While the connection between the Macintosh and the Alto project at Xerox PARC has been established in the historical record, the earlier contributions of Ivan Sutherland's Sketchpad and Doug Engelbart's On-Line System are no less significant. See History of the GUI, and Apple v. Microsoft.
Mac OS Technologies
; QuickDraw: the imaging model which first provided mass-market WYSIWYG ; Finder: the interface for browsing the filesystem and launching applications ; MultiFinder: the first version to support simultaneously running multiple apps ; Chooser: tool for accessing network resources (e.g., enabling AppleTalk) ; ColorSync: technology for ensuring appropriate color matching ; Mac OS memory management: how the Mac managed RAM and virtual memory before the switch to UNIX ;PowerPC emulation of Motorola 68000: how the Mac handled the architectural transition from CISC to RISC (see Mac 68K emulator) ;Desk Accessories - small "helper" apps that could be run concurrently with any other app, prior to the advent of MultiFinder or System 7.
Mac OS X References
- Mac OS X and its history
- Mac OS X Server
Software
This list includes software that runs on at least one version Mac OS without use of emulation. 68k software runs on 68k Macs without emulation, so it is listed.
Made by Apple
- Address Book
- AppleWorks
- Backup
- Chess
- Darwin Mach-based core OS
- Developer Tools
- DVD Studio Pro
- Final Cut Express
- Final Cut Pro
- HyperCard
- iCal
- iChat
- iDVD
- iLife
- iMovie
- iPhoto
- iSync
- iTunes
- Keynote
- MacDraw
- MacPaint
- MacWrite
- Preview
- QuickTime
- QuickTime Streaming Server
- Apple Remote Desktop
- Safari web browser
- Shake
- Sherlock
- SimpleText
- Soundtrack
- TeachText
- TextEdit
- WebObjects
- X11
Made by other organizations and/or people
See also: Mac OS history, OS Advocacy
- Audacity
- FileMaker (FileMaker, Inc., an Apple subsidiary)
- iCab
- LimeWire
- Logic (Emagic Gmbh, an Apple subsidiary)
- MindWrite - Word processor, outliner, and sorter, no longer produced.
- Stuffit Expander
- Taste - Word processor, no longer produced.
- Watson - web services
External links
- Apple: Mac OS X
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Mac OS."
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Media Access Control (MAC) is the lower sublayer of the OSI data link layer, the interface between a node's Logical Link Control and the network's physical layer. The MAC differs for various physical media.
The MAC sublayer is primarily concerned with breaking data up into data frames, transmitting the frames sequentially, processing the acknowledgment frames sent back by the receiver, handling address recognition, and controlling access to the medium.
See also: MAC address, Ethernet, token ring
This article was originally based on material from FOLDOC, used with permission.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Media Access Control."
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The Mid-American Conference is a college athletic conference whose members are located mainly in the Midwestern United States. The conference participates in the NCAA's Division I-A.
Member Schools
There are fourteen schools with full membership:
East Division
- University of Akron
- University at Buffalo
- University of Central Florida (UCF)
- Kent State University
- Marshall University
- Miami University
- Ohio University
West Division
The University of Kentucky is a member in men's soccer only; its principal conference, the Southeastern Conference, sponsors soccer for women but not for men. IPFW is a member in tennis only.
- Ball State University
- Bowling Green State University
- Central Michigan University
- Eastern Michigan University
- Northern Illinois University
- University of Toledo
- Western Michigan University
In 2005, UCF and Marshall will leave the MAC for Conference USA.
Member schools participate in baseball, men's and women's basketball, men's and women's cross-country, field hockey, American football, men's and women's golf, women's gymnastics, men's and women's soccer, softball, men's and women's swimming, men's and women's tennis, men's and women's track, women's volleyball and wrestling.
Two college football bowl games feature a team from the MAC--the GMAC Bowl and Motor City Bowl.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Mid-American Conference."
| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
MAC | Danish | Multiplekserede analoge komponenter | N/A |
MAC | Dutch | Maximaal toelaatbare concentratie | Medicine, Meteorology & Standards |
MAC | English | Maxwellian averaged capture | N/A |
MAC | Finnish | Multipleksoidut analogiset komponentit | N/A |
MAC | French | Multiplexage analogique des composantes | N/A |
MAC | Greek | ημέρα υπολογισμού Κωδικού Επαλήθευσης Μηνύματος | Computing, Finance |
MAC | Spanish | Mecanismo de tipos de cambio | Finance |
MAC | Swedish | Meddelandeautenticeringskod | N/A |
| FREDDIE MAC | English | Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation | N/A |
| MACS | French | étude MAC | N/A |
| MACS | Greek | μελέτη MAC | Medicine |
| MACS | Italian | Studio MAC | Medicine |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
Synonyms: MacSynonyms: macintosh (n), mack (n), mackintosh (n). (additional references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | Yeah I bet you know what it's like to get all riled up Johnny Mac. (Mr. Deeds; writing credit: Clarence Budington Kell; Robert Riskin) They got the Big Mac, I got the Big Mick (Coming to America; writing credit: David Sheffield) I'm not who you think I am, Mac. (Entrapment; writing credit: Ronald Bass; Michael Hertzberg) Don't call me mac, honey (Five Easy Pieces; writing credit: Carole Eastman; Bob Rafelson) Yeah, people call me Mac. (Once a Thief; writing credit: Glenn Davis; William Laurin) | |
Lyrics | Money from the safe in the back, stepped in wavin the Mac (Murder Murder (Remix) *; performing artist: Eminem) With a mac, with a glock I'ma make 'em say please (Saturday (Oooh! Oooh!); performing artist: Ludacris) But I'm sure he's Bill or Billy or Mac or buddy ("All I Wanna Do"; performing artist: Sheryl Crow) Turn the clock to zero Mac (Brand New Day; performing artist: Sting) And I'd rather have a Big Mac or a Jumbo Jack (I'll Be Mellow When I'm Dead; performing artist: Weird Al Yankovic) | |
Movie/TV Titles | The Mac Davis Show (1974) Country Sounds: Bobbie Gentry & Mac Davis (1969) Kad je mac krojio pravdu (1967) Old Mac (1961) Jack and Old Mac (1956) | |
Song Titles | MAC ARTHUR PARK (performing artist: Richard Harris ) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Mac Smith - dressed to kill What hydrographers wear for a night out on the town. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |  | Ann Bently, NRCS, Soil Conservation Technician and Mac Flemming, president of the American Classic Tea Co., discuss conservation practices. The American Classic Tea Company is the only tea plantation in the United States. Credit: USDA. |
 | A little game of bagatelle, between Old Abe the rail splitter & Little Mac the gunboat general. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Poor Little "Mac," who was called "Fritz" before the war -- has taken out his first papers as a Scotch Terrier ... Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | First graduating class of African American pilots in U.S. Army Air Corps, at Advanced Flying School, Tuskegee, Alabama: G.S. Roberts, B.O. Davis, C.H. DeBow, R.M. Long, Mac Ross, and L.R. Curtis. Credit: Library of Congress. | ||
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
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| "Big mac" by Julia Eisenberg Commentary: "Big mac :-)." | "I Mac" by Vi Xs Commentary: "I Mac." |
Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers. | |
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | MAC is not nationally reportable. (references) | |
Unclear knowledge of acquisition of MAC from the environment. (references) | ||
Although the mode of transmission is unclear, MAC is most likely environmentally acquired. (references) | ||
Business | The local personal computer (PC) market is fairly evenly divided between imported proprietary products (including secondhand units) such as Compaq, IBM, Dell, Apple Mac, as well as Toshiba and Fujitsu laptops, and clone models that are either imported in assembled form or as completely knocked down (CKD) units for local assembly. (references) | |
Economic History | South Korea | In April 1994 it declared the MAC void and withdrew its representatives. (references) |
North Korea | In recent years, North Korea has sought to dismantle the MAC in a push for a new "peace mechanism" on the peninsula. (references) | |
South Korea | The Neutral Nation Supervisory Committee (NNSC)--originally made up of delegations from Poland and Czechoslovakia on the D.P.R.K. side and Sweden and Switzerland on the UN side--monitors the activities of the MAC. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Mac" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 79.26% of the time. "Mac" is used about 650 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (proper) | 79.26% | 515 | 11,788 |
| Noun (singular) | 20.43% | 133 | 27,614 |
| Unclassified Items | 0.31% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 650 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "mac" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Mac | First name Male | 5,000 | 979 |
| Mac | Last name | 300 | 25,361 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
| Country | Name | Country | Name |
| Japan | Mac House Co., Ltd. | Mexico | Grupo Mac Ma, S.A. |
| USA | Freddie Mac | ||
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Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.
Expressions using "mac": D2 MAC ♦ Freddie Mac ♦ MAC address ♦ MAC at place of work ♦ MAC computation date ♦ MAC computed date ♦ MAC connection ♦ Mac Dougall ♦ Mac II ♦ Mac IIcx ♦ Mac Kenzie ♦ Mac Mahan ♦ Mac OS ♦ Mac Playmate ♦ occupational MAC ♦ project MAC. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "mac": Mac-1, MAC-360, Mac-compatible, Mac-fan, Mac-gregor, Mac-in-a-box, Mac-leod, Mac-like, Mac-on-intel, Mac-on-risc, Mac-on-unix, Mac-on-unixes, Mac-to-powerpc, Mac-to-unix, Mac-under-unix, Mac-using. | |
Ending with "mac": Smack-a-mac. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
fleetwood mac | 5,494 | mac os x | 311 |
mac | 4,815 | bernie mac | 303 |
freddie mac | 2,512 | t mac | 295 |
mac cosmetic | 2,426 | free mac game | 265 |
mac make up | 1,419 | explorer internet mac microsoft | 264 |
mac game | 1,075 | mac os | 224 |
mac serial | 874 | mac screensaver | 220 |
mac desktop picture | 834 | mac os 9 | 212 |
mac tool | 823 | fleetwood mac ticket | 212 |
mac and bumble | 595 | mac memory | 206 |
kazaa mac | 580 | mac free ware | 201 |
mac warehouse | 509 | mac font | 201 |
mac emulator | 416 | mac dre | 196 |
toby mac | 415 | mac flight | 193 |
mac software | 388 | free mac font | 190 |
computer mac | 352 | mac 10 | 189 |
mac address | 349 | apple mac | 186 |
fleetwood mac lyrics | 346 | fleetwood mac concert | 177 |
mac mall | 346 | mac rumor | 175 |
mac download | 312 | mac messenger msn | 167 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "mac"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | Mushama (Macintosh, Mackintosh, mat, oilcloth, oil-coat, oiler, Oilers, oilskin, raincoat, slicker, trench coat, waterproof). (various references) | |
Arabic | منغلق, مغلق (bolted, closed, fast, locked, sealed, shut, shut in), معطف واق من المطر (duffle coat, mackintosh, raincoat, trench coat, waterproof), مشمع واقي من المطر. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | човек (being, bloke, bod, body, fellow, figure, guy, head, homo, human, human being, individual, Jack, Johnny, joker, liver, man, person, piece, subject, thing, type, Wight, you), Мушама (Macintosh, Mackintosh, Oilers), Непромокаем Плат (Macintosh, Mackintosh), Шотландец (Sandy, Sawney), Шлифер (Macintosh, Mackintosh). (various references) | |
Chinese | 雨衣 (MACS, raincoat), 媒體訪問控制 (Media Access Control), 介質訪問控制 (Medium Access Control). (various references) | |
Czech | Gumák (gumboot, Mack). (various references) | |
Danish | MAC-beregningsdato (MAC computation date, MAC computed date), MAC-beregnet dato (MAC computation date, MAC computed date), MAC forbindelse (connection, MAC connection), infektion med Mycobacterium avium-intracellulare komplekset (disseminated MAC disease, disseminated Mycobacterium Avium Complex disease, mycobacterium avium complex), infektion med Mycobacterium avium (MAC infection), infektion med MAC (disseminated MAC disease, disseminated Mycobacterium Avium Complex disease, mycobacterium avium complex), forbindelse (connection), atypisk mycobakteriose (disseminated MAC disease, disseminated Mycobacterium Avium Complex disease, mycobacterium avium complex). (various references) | |
Dutch | Mycobacterium avium complex (disseminated MAC disease, disseminated Mycobacterium Avium Complex disease, mycobacterium avium complex), MAC-verbinding (connection, MAC connection), MAC-berekeningsdatum (MAC computation date, MAC computed date), verbinding (combination, connection), infectie met Mycobacterium avium (MAC infection). (various references) | |
Farsi | پیشوندی بمعنی 'فرزند'. (various references) | |
Finnish | sadetakki (mackintosh, raincoat, waterproof). (various references) | |
French | Imperméable (Mackintosh). (various references) | |
German | Meister (adept, boss, Buster, champion, chief, foreman, Lord, maestro, master, masters, showman), Regenmantel (macintosh, mack, mackintosh, raincoat). (various references) | |
Greek | MAC (disseminated MAC disease, disseminated Mycobacterium Avium Complex disease, MAC computation date, MAC computed date, multiplexed analog component, multiplexed analogue component, mycobacterium avium complex), μέγιστη αποδεκτή συγκέντρωση στους εργασιακούς χώρους (MAC at place of work, maximum allowable concentration at place of work, occupational MAC, occupational TLV, threshold limit value at place of work, TLV at place of work), ημέρα υπολογισμού Κωδικού Επαλήθευσης Μηνύματος (MAC computation date, MAC computed date), λοίμωξη από Mycobacterium avium (MAC infection), λοίμωξη από MAC (MAC infection). (various references) | |
Hungarian | Esõkabát (raincoat, water-jacket), esőkabát (mackintosh, raincoat). (various references) | |
Indonesian | bung (brother, buddy, fellow). (various references) | |
Italian | massima concentrazione ammissibile negli ambienti di lavoro (MAC at place of work, maximum allowable concentration at place of work, occupational MAC, occupational TLV, threshold limit value at place of work, TLV at place of work), MAC (disseminated MAC disease, disseminated Mycobacterium Avium Complex disease, Multiplexed Analogue Components, mycobacterium avium complex), infezione dovuta ai cosiddetti micobatteri atipici ampiamente distribuiti in tutto l'ambiente,compreso il suolo,l'acqua,le piante e gli escreti animali (disseminated MAC disease, disseminated Mycobacterium Avium Complex disease, mycobacterium avium complex), infezione da Mycobacterium avium (MAC infection), data di calcolo di MAC (MAC computation date, MAC computed date), D2 MAC (D2 MAC), collegamento MAC (connection, MAC connection), collegamento (connection, connexion, liaison, link, linkage). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | マゼラン雲 (machismo, Macintosh, Madagascar, madam killer, madame, Magellanic Clouds, maggeoli, mash, mashed potato, masochism, masochist, mass, massage, massive attack, mat, matador, match, match play, match point, match pomp, matching, material, maternity dress, -matic, matinee, Matterhorn, McCarthy, McCarthyism, McCulloch, muckraker, mug, mushroom, mux). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | マック (fungo, knock). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | acmay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | filho de (pref.). (various references) | |
Russian | Плащ. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | ortak (associate, bedfellow, buddy buddy, cohort, consort, fellow, partner, yokefellow, yokemate). (various references) | |
Spanish | Impermeable (impermeable, impervious, Mackintosh, raincoat, rainproof, raintight, showerproof, slicker, tight, vatertight, waterproof, watertight), Amigo (boyfriend, buddy, chum, cobber, compeer, Comrade, friend, friendly, lover, pal). (various references) | |
Swedish | Kompis (buddy, chum, Cocker, companion, comrade, friend, mate, pal, pard, sidekick), Grabben. (various references) | |
Turkish | zade (mac-, mc-), oğlu (mac-, mc-, son-). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | Парубок (Swain), Хлопець (Dick, Jack). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Date | Source | Proverbs Chapter 5, Verse 8 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | Makran poihson ap' authV shn odon mh eggishV proV quraiV oikwn authV |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Longe fac ab ea viam tuam et ne adpropinques foribus domus eius |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | Aferr mac fro hir thi weie, and ne neyhe thou to the doris of hir hous. |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | Remove thy way far from her, and come not nigh the door of her house: |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | Remove thy way far from her, and come not nigh the door of her house: |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | Go far away from her, do not come near the door of her house; |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Proverbs Chapter 5, Verse 8 |
| Cebuano | Ipahilayo ang imong dalan gikan kaniya, Ug ayaw pagpahaduol sa pultahan sa iyang balay; |
| Chinese | 你 所 行 的 道 要 離 他 遠 、 不 可 就 近 他 的 房 門 ． |
| Croatian | Neka je put tvoj daleko od nje i ne približuj se vratima njezine kuæe, |
| Danish | Lad din Vej være langt fra hende, kom ej hendes Husdør nær, |
| Dutch | Maak uw weg verre van haar, en nader niet tot de deur van haar huis; |
| Finnish | Pidä tiesi kaukana tuollaisesta äläkä lähesty hänen majansa ovea, |
| French | Éloigne-toi du chemin qui conduit chez elle, Et ne t`approche pas de la porte de sa maison, |
| German | Laß deine Wege ferne von ihr sein, und nahe nicht zur Tür ihres Hauses, |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | Jauhilah wanita yang demikian! Bahkan jangan mendekati rumahnya. |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | Jauhkanlah jalanmu dari pada perempuan begitu, dan janganlah hampiri pintu rumahnya. |
| Italian | Tieni lontano da lei il tuo cammino e non avvicinarti alla porta della sua casa, |
| Maori | Kia matara tou ara i a ia, kaua hoki e tata ki te tatau o tona whare; |
| Norwegian | La din vei være langt fra henne, og kom ikke nær til døren på hennes hus, |
| Portuguese | Afasta para longe dela o teu caminho, e não te aproximes da porta da sua casa; |
| Rumanian | depqrteazq-te de drumul care duce la ea, wi nu te apropia de uwa casei ei, |
| Russian | дЕТЦЙ ДБМШЫЕ ПФ ОЕЕ РХФШ ФЧПК Й ОЕ РПДИПДЙ ВМЙЪЛП Л ДЧЕТСН ДПНБ ЕЕ, |
| Spanish | Aleja de ella tu camino y no te acerques a la puerta de su casa, |
| Swedish | Låt din väg vara fjärran ifrån henne, och nalkas icke dörren till hennes hus. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "mac": macaber, macabre, macaco, macacos, macadam, macadamia, macadamias, macadamize, macadamized, macadamizes, macadamizing, macadams, macaque, macaques, macaroni, macaronic, macaronics, macaronies, macaronis, macaroon, macaroons, macaw, macaws, maccabaw, maccabaws, maccaboy, maccaboys, macchia, macchie, maccoboy, maccoboys, mace, maced, macedoine, macedoines, macer, macerate, macerated, macerates, macerating, maceration, macerations, macerator, macerators, macers, maces, mach, mache, maches, machete, machetes. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "mac": sumac, tarmac, yashmac. (additional references) | |
Words containing "mac": amphimacer, amphimacers, anticlimactic, anticlimactical, anticlimactically, antimacassar, antimacassars, antimacho, balmacaan, balmacaans, climacteric, climacterics, climactic, climactically, contumacies, contumacious, contumaciously, contumacy, diatomaceous, diplomacies, diplomacy, emaciate, emaciated, emaciates, emaciating, emaciation, emaciations, grimace, grimaced, grimacer, grimacers, grimaces, grimacing, hemacytometer, hemacytometers, illegitimacies, illegitimacy, immaculacies, immaculacy, immaculate, immaculately, intimacies, intimacy, kamacite, kamacites, legitimacies, legitimacy, limacine, limacon, limacons, logomach. (additional references) | |
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"Mac" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: amc, Amca, Ammc, Bmac, Dmac, Emac, gmac, imac, Maca, macc, macd, Macg, Macr, Madc, mafc, Mcal, Meac, Mgac, mic, moac, Mwco, Omac, Pmac, Rmca, Umca. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "mac" (pronounced ma"k) |
| 3 | m a" k | Mack, smack. |
| 2 | -a" k | aback, attack, back, black, clack, crack, Dak, Flack, flak, hack, Jack, knack, lac, lack, Pac, pack, plack, plaque, quack, rack, repack, sac, sack, shack, slack, snack, stack, tack, track, unpack, wack, whack, wrack, yack, Yak. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: cam. | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-m" | |
-1 letter: am, ma. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-m" | |
+1 letter: acme, calm, came, camp, cams, cham, clam, coma, cram, cyma, mace, mach, mack, macs, marc, mica, scam. | |
+2 letters: acmes, acmic, amice, amici, amnic, amuck, calms, camas, camel, cameo, cames, campi, campo, camps, campy, carom, champ, chams, charm, chasm, claim, clamp, clams, comae, comal, comas, comma, cramp, crams, cream, cymae, cymar, cymas, gamic, macaw, maced, macer, maces, mache, macho, machs, macks, macle, macon, macro, mafic, magic, malic, manic, march, marcs, match, mecca, micas, micra, mocha, musca, scamp, scams, scram, smack, sumac, umiac. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Images: Slideshow 7. Images: Photo Album 8. Images: Digital Art | 9. Quotations: Non-fiction 10. Usage Frequency 11. Names: Frequency 12. Names: Company Usage | 13. Expressions 14. Expressions: Internet 15. Translations: Modern 16. Bible Trace | 17. Abbreviations 18. Acronyms 19. Derivations 20. Rhymes | 21. Anagrams 22. Bibliography |
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