google

See also: Google and googlé

English

Pronunciation

  • enPR: go͞o'gəl, IPA(key): /ˈɡuːɡəl/
  • Homophones: Google, googol

Etymology 1

From googly.

Verb

google (third-person singular simple present googles, present participle googling, simple past and past participle googled)

  1. (intransitive, cricket) To deliver googlies.
  2. (intransitive, cricket) To move as a ball in a googly.

Etymology 2

From Google.

Noun

google (plural googles)

  1. (Internet, informal) An Internet search, such as those performed on the Google search engine.
  2. (Internet, informal) A match obtained by a query in the Google search engine.
    The word "oceanfront" has 6,150,000 googles, so I think it must be a real word.
Derived terms
Translations

Verb

google (third-person singular simple present googles, present participle googling, simple past and past participle googled)

  1. (transitive) To search for (something) on the Internet using the Google search engine.
    Tom googles all of his prospective girlfriends.
  2. (transitive, by extension) To search for (something) on the Internet using any comprehensive search engine.
    I googled him but there were no references to him on the Internet.
  3. (intransitive, Internet) To be locatable in a search of the Internet.
    His name googles.
Translations

See also

Etymology 3

Numeral

google

  1. Misspelling of googol.

Danish

Etymology

From Google, from English google (the verb).

Verb

google

  1. to google; to search on an Internet search engine, especially Google

Conjugation

References


Dutch

Verb

google

  1. first-person singular present indicative of googlen
  2. (archaic) singular present subjunctive of googlen
  3. imperative of googlen

French

Verb

google

  1. first-person singular present indicative of googler
  2. third-person singular present indicative of googler
  3. first-person singular present subjunctive of googler
  4. first-person singular present subjunctive of googler
  5. second-person singular imperative of googler

German

Pronunciation

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Verb

google

  1. First-person singular present of googeln.
  2. Imperative singular of googeln.
  3. First-person singular subjunctive I of googeln.
  4. Third-person singular subjunctive I of googeln.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Verb

google (present tense googlar, past tense googla, past participle googla, passive infinitive googlast, present participle googlande, imperative googl/google)

  1. Alternative form of googla

Portuguese

Verb

google

  1. first-person singular (eu) present subjunctive of googlar
  2. third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) present subjunctive of googlar
  3. third-person singular (você) affirmative imperative of googlar
  4. third-person singular (você) negative imperative of googlar
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