Library / English Dictionary

GOOGLE

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

A widely used search engine that uses text-matching techniques to find web pages that are important and relevant to a user's search

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Instance hypernyms:

search engine (a computer program that retrieves documents or files or data from a database or from a computer network (especially from the internet))

Derivation:

google (search the internet (for information) using the Google search engine)

Domain usage:

trademark (a formally registered symbol identifying the manufacturer or distributor of a product)

 II. (verb) 

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Meaning:

Search the internet (for information) using the Google search engine

Example:

My children are googling all day

Classified under:

Verbs of thinking, judging, analyzing, doubting

Hypernyms (to "google" is one way to...):

explore; research; search (inquire into)

Domain category:

computer science; computing (the branch of engineering science that studies (with the aid of computers) computable processes and structures)

Sentence frames:

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Derivation:

Google (a widely used search engine that uses text-matching techniques to find web pages that are important and relevant to a user's search)

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