🇩🇪German Source WordCode: DE

Suchmaschine

Pronunciation / Transliteration: ˈzuːxmaˌʃiːnə

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Search engine/ˈsɜːtʃ ˌen.dʒɪn/
nounCEFR B1 (Intermediate)Top #1450 frequency
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🇩🇪 Example Sentence in German:

"Google ist die weltweit bekannteste Suchmaschine."

Comprehensive Definitions & Senses

2 senses
As noun
  1. 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. 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

Derived from the verb 'search' (from Old French 'cerchier', ultimately from Latin 'circare', meaning 'to go about, traverse') and 'engine' (from Old French 'engin', from Latin 'ingenium', meaning 'innate quality, invention'). Combined in the late 20th century with the advent of the World Wide Web to describe software designed to search for information on the internet.

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