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单词 mac
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mac1

noun makmæk
mass nouninformal
  • Macaroni.

    his daily yearning for mac and cheese
    Example sentencesExamples
    • Just what I expected - a good-tasting chili mac.
    • For instance, a parent might have to prepare two different meals - a low-fat dinner for himself and good old mac and cheese for the kids.
    • Chowing down on the foods your mama used to make - like mashed potatoes or mac and cheese - can make you feel as warm and soft as those goodies, which may help you catch a few more winks.
    • If you're preparing mac and cheese from scratch, use whole-wheat pasta and you'll double the fiber.
    • Happy hunting and remember that sometimes there really is no replacement for mac and cheese.
    • Whether it's spaghetti, pork lo mein, or mac and cheese, the masses just can't get enough of them.
    • It's the return of mac 'n' cheese and grilled cheese, especially in fine restaurants.
    • I won't pretend that my problem is solved and that Easter dinner will see me contentedly grazing on carrot sticks and steamed fish while everyone else devours baked ham, fried chicken and mac and cheese.
    • It's time to stop pretending that yesterday's mac and cheese with a squirt of ketchup qualifies as a healthy meal.
    • I found this to be not only strange, but upsetting to my stomach as I'd just eaten some tuna mac 'n' cheese and a Rolling Rock beer.
    • You'll be back to mac and cheese in front of the TV soon enough.
    • Open a can and eat them in place of other high-carb sides like mashed or baked potatoes, biscuits, pasta, or mac and cheese.
    • Even mac 'n' cheese has gained new dignity.
    • I used to love getting lunch in the cafeteria, but ever since the new manager took over they stopped serving hamburgers and mac and cheese.
    • Not everyone considers bland 1950s fare (mac and cheese, chicken noodle soup, my mom's meatloaf) comfort food.
    • Do you break down cereal boxes, pasta, mac & cheese, and frozen dinner boxes for recycling or do they go in the trash?
    • Many of us reach for comfort foods or something with milk like mac and cheese in the winter and ice-cream or milkshakes in the summer.
    • Instead, we ate potato chips, drank three bottles of red wine, finished off the rum, made lots of mac and cheese and sweated in the billion-degree heat.
    • You'll use the technique for making this sauce over and over, for everything from mac 'n' cheese to Alfredo sauce.
    • Anyone up for homemade mac 'n' cheese?

Origin

1930s: abbreviation.

mac2

(North American mack)
noun makmæk
British informal
  • A mackintosh.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • This can only mean that Martine McCutcheon must own a Burberry mac too, hence minus points.
    • But you can arm yourself with umbrellas and macs to keep the rain away.
    • RACHEL WEISZ skips into the cafe like someone from a Seventies perfume ad, with her belted mac and tweed cap and tumbling raven curls.
    • And the finale complete with yellow macs, umbrellas and of course - rain - was well worth waiting for.
    • I'm sure people have this perception that it's all creepy old guys in rain macs - but it's not.
    • We thought fast food was what you have in Lent, a big mac was an oversize raincoat, and crumpet we had for tea.
    • The audience is made to feel like a bunch of Peeping Toms, leering grimly through the upturned collars of their grubby macs into the love lives of the rich and famous.
    • Would-be commandos are deployed in groups of up to six, each kitted out in drab macs, assigned a specific target to track down and led into the isolation of a fabric tent.
    • Those planning to go to Blackpool or North Wales for the bank holiday are most likely to need their macs and umbrellas with the coast and hills favourites for a shower.
    • In wellies and rustling macs around 1,500 spectators arrived at Saturday's Lowick Show, matching last year's crowd that took to the showfield in sunnier climes.
    • That's only just enough time to round up the gear and the children, find fleeces and macs and wellingtons, and get everyone into the car.
    • Also decaying is the seaside town, evoked by changeable weather, plastic macs, ice-cream parlours and ‘folk’ entertainers.
    • Because of the rain I've had to wear it with my Burberry mac, but it goes with it, so all is not lost.
    • Although we are always going to get visitors who wear those hideous yellow rain macs, we do have visitors who are stylish and we want to encourage more of them.
    • The mood is all about luxury, from fine touch cashmere and belted suede shirt dresses to candy coloured silk mix macs and cropped band box smart jackets.
    • There probably won't be a single mac or trilby hat in sight at the Novotel on Saturday, he said.
    • It all began with the return of the mac last year when simple, A-line waterproofs became all the rage.
    • The chorus is made up of love's losers - life's trainspotters, who wear macs and binoculars and narrate this tale.
    • But that led to problems on the shoplifting front; you see, the macs were behind the counter.
    • However, plastic macs are on sale at the shop - a comfort that was denied the poor old groundlings of 1599.

Origin

Early 20th century: abbreviation.

  • see mackintosh, maiden

Rhymes

aback, alack, attack, back, black, brack, clack, claque, crack, Dirac, drack, flack, flak, hack, jack, Kazakh, knack, lack, lakh, mach, Nagorno-Karabakh, pack, pitchblack, plaque, quack, rack, sac, sack, shack, shellac, slack, smack, snack, stack, tach, tack, thwack, track, vac, wack, whack, wrack, yak, Zack

Mac3

noun makmæk
trademark
  • A type of personal computer.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • I have been developing software for the Mac for over 20 years.
    • Lest everyone think me a Luddite, I ordered my first Mac in January 1984.
    • Choosing not to develop for the Mac, then, is choosing for your company to eventually die.
    • The appeal of a low cost Mac isn't hard to see.
    • During this time, your old Mac remains a valuable backup resource.

Origin

1980s: from Macintosh, the brand name of a range of computers manufactured by Apple Inc.; the range was named after a variety of dessert apple (see McIntosh).

noun
North American informal
  • A form of address for a man whose name is unknown to the speaker.

    haven't seen you for a while, Mac
    Example sentencesExamples
    • Hey Mac, I need a favor!
    • Hey Mac, you're going home!
    Synonyms
    man, my friend

Origin

Early 17th century (originally a form of address to a Scotsman): from Mac-, a patronymic prefix in many Scots and Irish surnames.

 
 

mac1

nounmakmæk
informal
  • Macaroni.

    his daily yearning for mac and cheese
    Example sentencesExamples
    • Even mac 'n' cheese has gained new dignity.
    • I used to love getting lunch in the cafeteria, but ever since the new manager took over they stopped serving hamburgers and mac and cheese.
    • Do you break down cereal boxes, pasta, mac & cheese, and frozen dinner boxes for recycling or do they go in the trash?
    • You'll be back to mac and cheese in front of the TV soon enough.
    • Whether it's spaghetti, pork lo mein, or mac and cheese, the masses just can't get enough of them.
    • Happy hunting and remember that sometimes there really is no replacement for mac and cheese.
    • I found this to be not only strange, but upsetting to my stomach as I'd just eaten some tuna mac 'n' cheese and a Rolling Rock beer.
    • If you're preparing mac and cheese from scratch, use whole-wheat pasta and you'll double the fiber.
    • Just what I expected - a good-tasting chili mac.
    • I won't pretend that my problem is solved and that Easter dinner will see me contentedly grazing on carrot sticks and steamed fish while everyone else devours baked ham, fried chicken and mac and cheese.
    • Many of us reach for comfort foods or something with milk like mac and cheese in the winter and ice-cream or milkshakes in the summer.
    • You'll use the technique for making this sauce over and over, for everything from mac 'n' cheese to Alfredo sauce.
    • It's time to stop pretending that yesterday's mac and cheese with a squirt of ketchup qualifies as a healthy meal.
    • Open a can and eat them in place of other high-carb sides like mashed or baked potatoes, biscuits, pasta, or mac and cheese.
    • Not everyone considers bland 1950s fare (mac and cheese, chicken noodle soup, my mom's meatloaf) comfort food.
    • Chowing down on the foods your mama used to make - like mashed potatoes or mac and cheese - can make you feel as warm and soft as those goodies, which may help you catch a few more winks.
    • For instance, a parent might have to prepare two different meals - a low-fat dinner for himself and good old mac and cheese for the kids.
    • Anyone up for homemade mac 'n' cheese?
    • It's the return of mac 'n' cheese and grilled cheese, especially in fine restaurants.
    • Instead, we ate potato chips, drank three bottles of red wine, finished off the rum, made lots of mac and cheese and sweated in the billion-degree heat.

Origin

1930s: abbreviation.

mac2

(North American mack)
nounmakmæk
British informal
  • A mackintosh.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • However, plastic macs are on sale at the shop - a comfort that was denied the poor old groundlings of 1599.
    • That's only just enough time to round up the gear and the children, find fleeces and macs and wellingtons, and get everyone into the car.
    • Would-be commandos are deployed in groups of up to six, each kitted out in drab macs, assigned a specific target to track down and led into the isolation of a fabric tent.
    • In wellies and rustling macs around 1,500 spectators arrived at Saturday's Lowick Show, matching last year's crowd that took to the showfield in sunnier climes.
    • Also decaying is the seaside town, evoked by changeable weather, plastic macs, ice-cream parlours and ‘folk’ entertainers.
    • But you can arm yourself with umbrellas and macs to keep the rain away.
    • Although we are always going to get visitors who wear those hideous yellow rain macs, we do have visitors who are stylish and we want to encourage more of them.
    • We thought fast food was what you have in Lent, a big mac was an oversize raincoat, and crumpet we had for tea.
    • But that led to problems on the shoplifting front; you see, the macs were behind the counter.
    • The audience is made to feel like a bunch of Peeping Toms, leering grimly through the upturned collars of their grubby macs into the love lives of the rich and famous.
    • I'm sure people have this perception that it's all creepy old guys in rain macs - but it's not.
    • Those planning to go to Blackpool or North Wales for the bank holiday are most likely to need their macs and umbrellas with the coast and hills favourites for a shower.
    • This can only mean that Martine McCutcheon must own a Burberry mac too, hence minus points.
    • There probably won't be a single mac or trilby hat in sight at the Novotel on Saturday, he said.
    • RACHEL WEISZ skips into the cafe like someone from a Seventies perfume ad, with her belted mac and tweed cap and tumbling raven curls.
    • Because of the rain I've had to wear it with my Burberry mac, but it goes with it, so all is not lost.
    • The chorus is made up of love's losers - life's trainspotters, who wear macs and binoculars and narrate this tale.
    • And the finale complete with yellow macs, umbrellas and of course - rain - was well worth waiting for.
    • The mood is all about luxury, from fine touch cashmere and belted suede shirt dresses to candy coloured silk mix macs and cropped band box smart jackets.
    • It all began with the return of the mac last year when simple, A-line waterproofs became all the rage.

Origin

Early 20th century: abbreviation.

Mac3

nounmækmak
trademark
  • A type of personal computer.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • The appeal of a low cost Mac isn't hard to see.
    • During this time, your old Mac remains a valuable backup resource.
    • I have been developing software for the Mac for over 20 years.
    • Choosing not to develop for the Mac, then, is choosing for your company to eventually die.
    • Lest everyone think me a Luddite, I ordered my first Mac in January 1984.

Origin

1980s: from Macintosh, the brand name of a range of computers manufactured by Apple Inc.; the range was named after a variety of dessert apple (see McIntosh).

noun
North American informal
  • A form of address for a man whose name is unknown to the speaker.

    haven't seen you for a while, Mac
    Example sentencesExamples
    • Hey Mac, you're going home!
    • Hey Mac, I need a favor!
    Synonyms
    man, my friend

Origin

Early 17th century (originally a form of address to a Scotsman): from Mac-, a patronymic prefix in many Scots and Irish surnames.

 
 
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