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10 Language-to-English Dictionariesmotor de busca
Pronunciation / Transliteration: muˈtoʁ dʒi ˈbus.kɐ
"Ele digitou a pergunta no motor de busca."
Comprehensive Definitions & Senses
2 senses- 1
A software system that is designed to carry out web searches, indexing millions of pages to find specific information requested by a user.
"She used a popular search engine to find articles about renewable energy." - 2
Any program that searches for documents or files based on keywords.
"The corporate intranet includes a powerful search engine for internal documents."
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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology
The term combines the verb 'search', derived from Old French 'cerchier' (to explore, examine), and 'engine', from Latin 'ingenium' (innate quality, invention). The compound emerged in the early 1990s with the advent of the World Wide Web to describe software designed to systematically search for information on the internet.
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10 Global Lexicons: How "Search engine" is said worldwide
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moteur de recherche
Transliteration: mo-tœr də ʁə.ʃaʁʃ
"Il utilise un moteur de recherche pour naviguer sur le web."
Suchmaschine
Transliteration: ˈzuːxmaˌʃiːnə
"Google ist die weltweit bekannteste Suchmaschine."
motore di ricerca
Transliteration: moˈto.re di reˈtʃir.ka
"Ho cercato le informazioni su un motore di ricerca."
motor de búsqueda
Transliteration: moˈtoɾ de βuˈskeð.ka
"El buscador o motor de búsqueda es esencial para navegar en internet."
motor de busca
Transliteration: muˈtoʁ dʒi ˈbus.kɐ
"Ele digitou a pergunta no motor de busca."
सर्च इंजन
Transliteration: sarch injan
"इंटरनेट पर जानकारी खोजने के लिए सर्च इंजन का उपयोग किया जाता है।"
搜索引擎
Transliteration: sōusuǒ yǐnqíng
"用户可以通过搜索引擎找到需要的网页。"
검색엔진
Transliteration: geomsaek-enjin
"우리는 매일 검색엔진을 사용하여 정보를 찾습니다."
検索エンジン
Transliteration: kensaku enjin
"インターネット上の情報を探すには検索エンジンが便利です。"
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