Apple
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From apple. As a surname, also an Americanized form of Appel or Apfel.[1]
Pronunciation
[edit]Proper noun
[edit]Apple (countable and uncountable, plural Apples)
- (with "the") A nickname for New York City, usually “the Big Apple”.
- (trademark) A company/corporation.
- (Should we delete(+) this sense?) The company Apple Inc., formerly Apple Computer, that produces computers and other digital devices, and sells and produces multimedia content.
- (Should we delete(+) this sense?) A multimedia corporation (Apple Corps) and record company (Apple Records) founded by the Beatles.
- 2016 March 13, “Encryption”, in Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, season 3, episode 5, via HBO:
- Listen, Apple’s not perfect. You need proof? We made the Newton. We made that one Mac that looks like a toaster. We actually thought the Apple Watch was cool.
Wait, this isn’t cool?
Oh, fuck no.
Shit!
We put a YouTube album on your phones. You know, the one you’ve been struggling to delete. That thing keeps coming back, huh? And we can’t even make out battery last more than, like, a day!
- (rare, countable) A female given name from English.
- (countable) A surname.
Derived terms
[edit]Translations
[edit]Apple Inc.
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Noun
[edit]Apple (plural Apples)
- A computer produced by the company Apple Inc.
- 1984, Douglas Adams, So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish (The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy):
- Arthur bought the Apple anyway. Over a few days he also acquired some astronomical software, plotted the movements of stars, drew rough little diagrams of how he seemed to remember the stars to have been […]
Statistics
[edit]- According to the 2010 United States Census, Apple is the 5,050th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 6,948 individuals. Apple is most common among White (89.45%) individuals.
References
[edit]- ^ Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Apple”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 1, New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 48.
Anagrams
[edit]Cebuano
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]Apple
- a female given name
Quotations
[edit]For quotations using this term, see Citations:Apple.
Chinese
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]- Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)+
- Jyutping: ep1 pou2
- Cantonese Pinyin: ep7 pou2
- Guangdong Romanization: éb1 pou2
- Sinological IPA (key): /ɛːp̚⁵ pʰou̯³⁵/
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)+
Proper noun
[edit]Apple
- (Hong Kong Cantonese) Apple (name of the company Apple Inc.)
Italian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Unadapted borrowing from English Apple.
Pronunciation
[edit]Proper noun
[edit]Apple ?
- Apple (name of the company Apple Inc.)
References
[edit]- ^ Apple in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)
Polish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Unadapted borrowing from English Apple. Doublet of jabłko.
Pronunciation
[edit]Proper noun
[edit]Apple m inan
- Apple (company Apple Inc., formerly Apple Computer, that produces computers and other digital devices, and sells and produces multimedia content)
Declension
[edit]Declension of Apple
Further reading
[edit]- Apple in Polish dictionaries at PWN
- Apple Inc. in PWN's encyclopedia
Portuguese
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Unadapted borrowing from English Apple.
Pronunciation
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Proper noun
[edit]Apple f
- Apple (name of the company Apple Inc.)
Spanish
[edit]Proper noun
[edit]Apple
- Apple (name of the company Apple Inc.)
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- Rhymes:English/æpəl
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