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iPad

noun
/ˈaɪpæd/

Etymology

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

  1. inherited from *paddǭ✻ — “toad”
  2. inherited from *paddā✻
  3. inherited from padde
  4. inherited from pade
  5. formed as ipad — “i- + pad”

Definitions

  1. A lightweight low-power tablet computer of a particular range from Apple Inc.

    • He was watching a movie on his iPad.
    • 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.
    • “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. Any lightweight low-power tablet computer.

    • She opened her bag and took out her Samsung iPad.
    • 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.

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Derived

iPad baby, iPad child, iPad kid, iPad parent

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for iPad. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA