Apple
English
Pronunciation
- enPR: ă'pəl, IPA(key): /ˈæ.pəl/
- Rhymes: -æpəl
- Homophone: apple
- Hyphenation: Ap‧ple
Proper noun
Apple (countable and uncountable, plural Apples)
- (with "the") A nickname for New York City, usually “the Big Apple”.
- (trademark) A company/corporation.
- The company Apple Inc., formerly Apple Computer, that produces computers and other digital devices, and sells and produces multimedia content.
- 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
Translations
Apple Inc.
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Noun
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
- 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
- Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Apple”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 1, New York City: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 48.
Cebuano
Quotations
For quotations using this term, see Citations:Apple.
Chinese
Pronunciation
Italian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈɛp.pol/[1]
- Rhymes: -ɛppol
References
- Apple in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)
Polish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ɛpl/
- Rhymes: -ɛpl
- Syllabification: Apple
Declension
Further reading
- Apple in Polish dictionaries at PWN
Portuguese
Pronunciation
- (Brazil) IPA(key): /ˈɛ.pow/ [ˈɛ.poʊ̯], (usually proscribed, but common) /ˈej.pow/ [ˈeɪ̯.poʊ̯]
Spanish
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