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English

Pronunciation

  • enPR: go͞o'g(ə)l, IPA(key): /ˈɡuː.ɡəl/
  • Homophones: Google, googol, gugel
  • Rhymes: -uːɡəl
  • Hyphenation: goog‧le

Etymology 1

Back-formation from googly + -le (frequentative suffix (indicating continuousness or repetition) forming verbs).

Verb

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

  1. (transitive) To bowl (a cricket ball) so that it performs a googly (a ball by a leg-break bowler that spins from off to leg (to a right-handed batsman), unlike a normal leg-break delivery).
  2. (intransitive)
    1. Of a bowler: to bowl or deliver a googly.
    2. Of a cricket ball: to move as in a googly.
Derived terms
  • googler
Translations

Etymology 2

From Google (search engine operated by Google LLC).

Noun

google (plural googles) (Internet, informal)

  1. An Internet search, such as one performed on the Google search engine.
  2. (dated) A match obtained by a query in the Google search engine.
    Synonyms: Google hit, ghit
    Hypernyms: hit, result
Alternative forms
  • Google
Derived terms
  • googlebomb
  • googlewhack
  • googlish
Related terms
  • googol
Translations

Verb

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

  1. (transitive)
    1. To search for (something) on the Internet using the Google search engine.
    2. (by extension) To search for (something) on the Internet using any comprehensive search engine.
  2. (intransitive) To be locatable in a search of the Internet.
Alternative forms
  • Google
Derived terms
Translations

Etymology 3

See googol.

Numeral

google

  1. Misspelling of googol.

References

Further reading

  • Google Search on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
  • google (verb) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
  • googly on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

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

  • “google” in Den Danske Ordbog

Dutch

Verb

google

  1. inflection of googlen:
    1. first-person singular present indicative
    2. (dated or formal) singular present subjunctive
    3. imperative

French

Verb

google

  1. inflection of googler:
    1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
    2. second-person singular imperative

German

Pronunciation

Verb

google

  1. inflection of googeln:
    1. first-person singular present
    2. singular imperative
    3. first/third-person singular subjunctive I

Norwegian Nynorsk

Verb

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

  1. Alternative form of googla

Portuguese

Verb

google

  1. inflection of googlar:
    1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
    2. third-person singular imperative

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