English noun: Google | |||
1. | Google (communication) a widely used search engine that uses text-matching techniques to find web pages that are important and relevant to a user's search | ||
Instance hypernym | search engine | ||
English verb: google | |||
1. | google (cognition) search the internet (for information) using the Google search engine | ||
Samples | He googled the woman he had met at the party. My children are googling all day. | ||
Pattern of use | Somebody ----s. Somebody ----s something. Somebody ----s somebody | ||
Broader (hypernym) | explore, research, search | ||
Domain category | computer science, computing | ||