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As verbs the difference between google and alphabet

is that google is to deliver googlies while alphabet is to designate by the letters of the alphabet; to arrange alphabetically.

As nouns the difference between google and alphabet

is that google is an internet search, such as that which is performed on the Google search engine while alphabet is the set of letters used when writing in a language.

As a numeral google

is misspelling of lang=en.

As a proper noun Google

is a particular Internet company.

google

English

(wikipedia google)

Etymology 1

From googly.

Verb

(googl)
  • (cricket) To deliver googlies.
  • (cricket) To move as a ball in a googly.
  • Etymology 2

    From Google.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • An internet search, such as that which is performed on the Google search engine.
  • (Internet) A match obtained by a query in the Google search engine.
  • The word "oceanfront" has 6,150,000 googles , so I think it must be a real word.
    Derived terms
    * googlebomb * googles * googlewhack * googlish

    Verb

    (googl)
  • To search for (something) on the Internet using the Google search engine.
  • Tom googles all of his prospective girlfriends.
  • (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.
  • (Internet) To be locatable in a search of the Internet.
  • His name googles .
    Quotations
    * {{quote-web , last = Page , first = Larry , authorlink = Larry Page , date = 1998-07-08 , url = http://web.archive.org/web/19991009052012/www.egroups.com/group/google-friends/3.html , title = Google Search Engine: New Features , publisher = Google Friends Mailing List , accessdate = 2007-08-06 , passage = "Have fun and keep googling !" }} * {{quote-video , date = 2002-10-15 , title = (Buffy the Vampire Slayer) , episode = , season = 7 , number = 4 , people = (Alyson Hannigan) and (Nicholas Brendon) , role = (Willow Rosenberg) and (Xander Harris) , passage = Willow'': Have you googled her yet?
    ''Xander'': Willow! She's 17!
    ''Willow
    : It's a search engine. }} * {{quote-video , date = 2002-12-13 , title = (Maid In Manhattan) , people = (Jennifer Lopez) , role = Marisa , passage = "Google it." }} * {{quote-news , date = 2002-12-28 , first = Bill , last = Keller , authorlink = Bill Keller , url = http://www.nytimes.com/2002/12/28/opinion/28KELL.html?pagewanted=2&todaysheadlines , title = Who's Sorry Now? , newspaper = (The New York Times) , issn = 0362-4331 , page = A-19 , accessdate = 2007-06-24 , passage = "Googling in search of an apology from the former Enron C.E.O...." }}

    See also

    * googlie, googly * madame linkmonger * JFGI

    Etymology 3

    Numeral

    (en noun)
  • ----

    alphabet

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The set of letters used when writing in a language.
  • The Greek alphabet has only twenty-four letters.
    In the first year of school, pupils are taught to recite the alphabet .
  • A writing system in which letters represent phonemes.
  • # A true alphabet, a writing system in which there are letters for the consonant and'' vowel phonemes.
  • (computer science) A typically finite set of distinguishable symbols.
  • Let L be a regular language over the alphabet \Sigma .
  • (India) An individual letter of an alphabet; an alphabetic character.
  • * 2002 , Eugene E. Dike, African myth of creation in African form of writing , Monsenstein und Vannerdat, ISBN 3936600406, page 30:
  • We realize the fact that the alphabet A has been used in many world scripts as a vowel with the others AEIOU.
  • * 2005 , Satinder Bal Gupta, Comprehensive Discrete Mathematics & Structures , Laxmi Publications, page 237:
  • There are 26 alphabets in English.
  • The simplest rudiments; elements.
  • * Macaulay
  • The very alphabet of our law.

    Derived terms

    () * alphabetic, alphabetical * alphabetize * alphabet soup * alphanumeric, alphanumerical * Cyrillic alphabet * Greek alphabet * Latin alphabet * Phoenician alphabet * phonetic alphabet * Roman alphabet * Russian alphabet * Ukrainian alphabet

    Synonyms

    * , absey

    See also

    * abjad * abugida * script * syllabary * writing system *

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To designate by the letters of the alphabet; to arrange alphabetically.