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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)
Sense 1
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:
Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
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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