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.

   He was watching a movie on his iPad.

   • 2022 April 28, Sandi Sidhu, Roman Tymotsko and Oleksandra Titorova, “After epic journey, orphaned Ukrainian girl is reunited with grandfather”, in CNN‎^[1]:

     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.

   • 2023 September 19, Yessenia Funes, quoting Robert D. Bullard, “The Father of Environmental Justice Exposes the Geography of Inequity”, in Scientific American‎^[2]:

     “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)
   • 2013, “上海25小时”, in 谈钞票伤感情 谈感情又伤钞票又伤感情‎^[3], performed by 顶楼的马戏团:

     女朋友讲伊起拉额小姐妹人人裁有一只ipad

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

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)

Italian

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈaj.pad/

Noun

iPad m (invariable)

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

   Synonym: tablet