Googleとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• enPR: go͞o'g(ə)l, IPA^(key): /ˈɡuː.ɡəl/
  • 異形同音異義語: Google, googol, gugel
  • 韻: -uːɡəl
  • ハイフネーション: goog‧le

語源 1

Back-formation from googly^[1] + -le (frequentative suffix (indicating continuousness または repetition) forming verbs).

動詞

google (三人称単数 現在形 googles, 現在分詞 googling, 過去形および過去分詞形 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.

派生語

• googler

語源 2

From Google (“search engine operated by Google LLC”).^[2]

名詞

google (複数形 googles) (Internet, informal)

1. An Internet search, such as one performed on the Google search engine.
   • 2023, Isabella Hammad, Enter Ghost, Jonathan Cape, page 51:

     Each night I allowed myself one desultory google before leaping to my feet for a lamplit walk around the neighbourhood.

2. (dated) A match obtained by a query in the Google search engine.

   Synonyms: Google hit, ghit

   Hypernyms: hit, result

   The word oceanfront has 64,300,000 googles, so I think it must be a real word.

別の表記

• Google

派生語

• googlebomb
• googlewhack
• googlish

関連する語

• googol

動詞

google (三人称単数 現在形 googles, 現在分詞 googling, 過去形および過去分詞形 googled) (Internet)

1. (transitive)
   1. To search for (something) on the Internet using the Google search engine.

      Tom googles all of his prospective girlfriends.

      • 1998 July 8, Larry Page, “New Features”, in eGroups‎^[1], archived from the original on 9 October 1999:

        Have fun and keep googling!

        This is the first occurrence of the term in print.

      • 2002 October 15, Rebecca Rand Kirshner, “Help”, in Buffy the Vampire Slayer, season 7, episode 4, spoken by Willow Rosenberg and Xander Harris (Alyson Hannigan かつ Nicholas Brendon):

        Willow: Have you googled her yet?
        Xander: Willow! She's 17!
        Willow: It's a search engine.

      • 2002 December 13, Kevin Wade, Maid in Manhattan, spoken by Marisa (Jennifer Lopez):

        Google it.

      • 2002 December 28, Bill Keller, “Who’s sorry now?”, in The New York Times‎^[2], New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 23 March 2021, page A-19:

        Googling in search of an apology from the former Enron C.E.O. Kenneth Lay, I came up with a report in the newspaper Oil Daily headlined "Lay apologizes." But tel me if you can find any remorse in his actual words: […]

   2. (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.

2. (intransitive) To be locatable in a search of the Internet.

   His name googles.

別の表記

• Google

派生語

語源 3

See googol.

数詞

google

1. Misspelling of googol.

参照

Further reading

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