iPad

English

iPad and iPad Pro

Etymology

From i- +‎ pad. Apple trademark, from their "i-" series of products; especially their iOS products, the iPod and iPhone.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈaɪpæd/

• Audio (Southern England):

  (file)

Noun

iPad (plural iPads)

1. (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.”

2. (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.

Hypernyms

• tablet computer
• tablet

Derived terms

• iPad baby
• iPad child
• iPad kid
• iPad parent

 

Related terms

• iPod
• iPhone

Anagrams

• DIPA, Dipa, PADI, padi, paid, adip-, apid, diap., diap, AIDP

Chinese

Etymology

Borrowed from English iPad.

Pronunciation

• Cantonese (Jyutping): aai¹ pet¹

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• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: aai¹ pet¹
    • Cantonese Pinyin: aai¹ pet⁷
    • Guangdong Romanization: ai¹ péd¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /aːi̯⁵⁵ pʰɛːt̚⁵/

Noun

iPad

1. iPad (the Apple iPad)
2. iPad (a generic internet/electronic tablet)

French

Etymology

From English iPad.

Noun

iPad m (plural iPads)

1. iPad (the Apple iPad)
2. iPad (a generic internet/electronic tablet)