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Definitions: Mackintosh |
MackintoshNoun1. A lightweight waterproof (usually rubberized) fabric. 2. (British) a waterproof raincoat made of rubberized fabric. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "mackintosh" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1780. (references) |
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Biographical Satire | MACKINTOSH, discoverer of a method of keeping dry outside on a rainy day. Source: Who was Who: 5000BC - 1914. |
Literature | Mackintosh or ~~~Macintosh. Macintosh. Cloth waterproofed with caoutchouc, patented by Mr. Macintosh. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
As well as their practical use as a rainproof garment, Mackintoshes feature in a peculiarly British form of rubber fetishism.
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Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Mackintosh."
| 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 |
| BIS MACKINTOSH | English | Commercially oriented online service providing abstracts of specialized press articles on information technology and telecommunications | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
Synonyms: MackintoshSynonyms: mac (n), macintosh (n), mack (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Clothing | Cloak, pall, mantle, mantlet mantua, shawl, pelisse, wrapper; veil; cape, tippet, kirtle, plaid, muffler, comforter, haik, huke, chlamys, mantilla, tabard, housing, horse cloth, burnoose, burnous, roquelaure; houppelande; surcoat, overcoat, great coat; surtout, spencer; mackintosh, waterproof, raincoat; ulster, P-coat, dreadnought, wraprascal, poncho, cardinal, pelerine; barbe, chudder, jubbah, oilskins, pajamas, pilot jacket, talma |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Mackintosh |
| Non-English Usage: "Mackintosh" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses. Spanish (mackintosh). |
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Movie/TV Titles | The Mackintosh Man (1973) Mackintosh and T.J. (1975) | |
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| Author | Quotation |
James Mackintosh | Whatever is popular deserves attention. |
| Maxims are the condensed good sense of nations. | |
Sir James Mackintosh | The commons, faithful to their system, remained in a wise and masterly inactivity. |
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| "Mackintosh" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 61.93% of the time. "Mackintosh" is used about 176 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) | 61.93% | 109 | 31,132 |
| Noun (singular) | 38.07% | 67 | 40,952 |
| Total | 100.00% | 176 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "mackintosh" 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 |
| Mackintosh | Last name | 130 | 62,225 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "mackintosh": Mackintosh-generics, Mackintosh-ish, mackintosh-overcoat. | |
Ending with "mackintosh": Villard-mackintosh. | |
| 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 |
charles rennie mackintosh | 88 |
mackintosh | 60 |
rennie mackintosh | 17 |
charles mackintosh | 15 |
steven mackintosh | 14 |
cameron mackintosh | 13 |
mackintosh realtor | 12 |
mackintosh raincoat | 6 |
mackintosh shiny | 6 |
mackintosh chair | 6 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "mackintosh"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | Mushama (Mac, Macintosh, mat, oilcloth, oil-coat, oiler, Oilers, oilskin, raincoat, slicker, trench coat, waterproof), Pardesy Fëshfëshe (raincoat), Pëlhurë Që S'laget. (various references) | |
Arabic | معطف واق من المطر (duffle coat, mac, raincoat, trench coat, waterproof), المكنتش نسيج خفيف. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | Мушама (Mac, Macintosh, Oilers), Непромокаем Плат (Mac, Macintosh), Шлифер (Mac, Macintosh). (various references) | |
Finnish | sadetakki (mac, raincoat, waterproof). (various references) | |
French | Imperméable (Mac). (various references) | |
German | Regenmantel (Mac, macintosh, mack, raincoat). (various references) | |
Greek | Αδιάβροχο ανωφόρι. (various references) | |
Hebrew | ־עיל ֲשם. (various references) | |
Hungarian | esőkabát (mac, raincoat). (various references) | |
Indonesian | kain jas hujan. (various references) | |
Italian | impermeabile (impermeable, impervious, raincoat, rainproof, slicker, tight, waterproof). (various references) | |
Norwegian | regnfrakk. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ackintoshmay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | Cavalinha. (various references) | |
Romanian | Manta De Cauciuc, Impermeabil (damp proof, impermeable, impervious, imperviously, raincoat, rainproof, repellent, tight, water proof, waterproof), Hainã De Ploaie. (various references) | |
Russian | Прорезиненная Ткань, Макинтош (Macintosh), Непромокаемый Плащ. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | mekintoš kompjuter (macintosh), mekintoš (macintosh), nepromočiva tkanina (macintosh), kišni mantil (raincoat, slicker, waterproof). (various references) | |
Spanish | mackintosh, Impermeable (impermeable, impermeable to water, impervious, impervious to water, Mac, raincoat, rainproof, raintight, showerproof, slicker, tight, vatertight, waterproof, watertight). (various references) | |
Swedish | Regnrock (gabardine, gaberdine, raincoat, waterproof), Regnkappa (raincoat, rainwear). (various references) | |
Turkish | Yağmurluk (anorak, Macintosh, raincoat, rainproof, slicker, trench coat, waterproof). (various references) | |
Ukranian | Плащ (Cape, Macintosh), Макінтош (Macintosh), Непромокальна Тканина (Macintosh). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | áo mưa makintôt vải cao su. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "mackintosh": mackintoshes. (additional references) | |
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"Mackintosh" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: mackintosch, makintosh, Mckintosh. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "mackintosh" (pronounced 'Mack"in*tosh'): macintosh, tosh. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-h-i-k-m-n-o-s-t" | |
-1 letter: antishock, macintosh. | |
-2 letters: chitosan, comatiks, manihots, monastic, stickman, stockman. | |
-3 letters: actions, anosmic, anticks, atomics, atonics, camions, cations, catkins, chamiso, chamois, chitons, comatik, isotach, kations, khamsin, manihot, maniocs, manitos, masonic, monkish, osmatic, sockman, somatic, stomach, tachism. | |
-4 letters: actins, action, amnios, anomic, antick, antics, atomic, atonic, camion, canthi, cantos, casino, cation, catkin, chains, chants, chiasm, chinas, chinks, chinos, chints, chiton, coatis, cotans, hakims, hansom, hoicks, inmost, kamsin, kation, kismat, kitsch, machos, macons, manics, manioc, manito, mantic, mantis, mascon, mascot, mastic, matins, misact, mochas, monish, monist, months, mosaic, nachos, nastic, octans, schtik, scotia, shacko, shanti, shtick, sitcom, snatch, snitch, socman, stanch, stinko, takins, thacks, thanks, thicks, thinks, tocsin, tomans, tonics, tonish. | |
-5 letters: actin, aitch, amino, amins, amnic, amnio, amoks, ankhs, antic, antis, ascot, askoi, atoms, cains, canso, canst, canto, cants, chain, chams, chant, chaos, chasm, chats, chiao, chias, china, chink, chino, chins, chits, cions, coast, coati, coats, coins, comas, conks, costa, cotan, hacks, haiks, hakim, hanks, hants, hicks, hints, hocks, hoick, hoist, honks, hosta, icons, ikats, ikons, iotas, kains, kaons, khans, khats, kinas, kinos, kiths, knish, knits, knots, koans, macho, machs, macks, macon, mains, maist, makos, manic, manos, mason, match, maths, matin, micas, micks, minas, minks, mints, moans, moats, mocha, mocks, moist, monas, monks, month, moths, nacho, natch, nicks, nocks, nomas, notch, oaths, octan, ohias, ohmic, oinks, omits, ontic, osmic, ostia, saint, saith, santo, satin, scant, schmo, scion, shack, shako, shank, shoat, shock, shtik, sicko, skimo, skint, smack, smith, smock, snack, snath, snick, sonic, stack, stain, stank, stich, stick, stink, stoai, stock, stoic, stoma, tachs, tacks, tacos, tains, takin, tamis, tanks, thack, thank, thick, think, thins, ticks, toman, tonic. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-h-i-k-m-n-o-s-t" | |
+2 letters: mackintoshes. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)4D 61 63 6B 69 6E 74 6F 73 68 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-- .- -.-. -.- .. -. - --- ... .... |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001101 01100001 01100011 01101011 01101001 01101110 01110100 01101111 01110011 01101000 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)M a c k i n t o s h |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)004D 0061 0063 006B 0069 006E 0074 006F 0073 0068 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)47676977758086818574 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Quotations: Familiar 7. Usage Frequency 8. Names: Frequency | 9. Expressions 10. Expressions: Internet 11. Translations: Modern 12. Abbreviations | 13. Acronyms 14. Derivations 15. Rhymes 16. Anagrams | 17. Orthography 18. Bibliography |
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