PC
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1.8
- noun
- /piː siː/
- Specialized
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computadora personal
- At his third stop, he found Cheryl staring fixedly into her PC screen, surrounded, as always, by dead trees.
- use a PC
- PC software
- PC operating system
Can you just fire up your old PC and start making money?
- Can you just fire up your old PC and start making money?
- consoles or a high end gaming PC or gaming laptop at least.
- Well, I ain't talking about a PC running Chrome OS.
- And Next up, we've got some PC fans from Corsair.
- I can't wait to put it in my PC tomorrow.
- Right now, building PCs kind of sucks in some ways.
- So we've just forgotten about the PC and it's only on Xbox.
- Yeah, many of them will be on PC and Android devices.
- Or do you want like serious sit down PC gaming or your console?
- Compact, fully liquid cooled desktop PC Cool, compact and quiet smooth.
- In the early days of the PC, Apples worthy rival was IBM.
- Remember with the old PCs, you would defrag them.
Examples
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I bought a gaming PC to play some games.
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So now I'm thinking I need to put my main PC desk right here.
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Can you just fire up your old PC and start making money?
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But in my mind, the PC is the least expensive.
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Shall we put our new PC in my old case?
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In every home in America, the PC is gonna be where the TV used to be.
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It's like I've got my own mission control right here on my PC.
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The boys' parents purchased a new PC laptop for Narko.
Academic text (2015) -
I gave Gola my dilapidated PC laptop, which he used for a year before it failed.
Academic text (2015) -
I bought a new gaming PC to improve my gaming experience.
Synonyms
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1.0
A machine that processes and stores information using programs
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3.5
A small personal computer used at home or in offices
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2.4
A small machine one person uses to work, study, or play
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4.7
A small computer for one person that uses a small chip to run programs
Compounds
How Powerful
- Specialized
351
3.0
- Specialized
11
4.2
- Specialized
192
1.8
309
1.0
286
2.7
227
1.8
81
1.3
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
PC is short for personal computer: personal means 'for one person' and computer is a machine that 'calculates'. So the name tells you it is a small machine made for one person to use, not a large shared computer.