Recitation vs Google - What's the difference?
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The act of publicly reciting something previously memorized.
The material recited.
A regularly scheduled class, in a school, in which discussion occurs of the material covered in a parallel lecture.
*1882 , Wayside Gleanings for Leisure Moments , , page 20,
*:I shall now endeavor to give some account of the College.... Some then go to a recitation' of the lesson they have learnt the previous evening. Some return to their rooms till the breakfast-bell, about seven or after. At eight the sludy bell rings. All must then go in their rooms and continue there, even if they have no lessons to learn, unless they attend a ' recitation which occupies an hour.
*1896 , , "The 'English Courses' of the University of California", reprinted in, 1986, Novels and Essays , Library of America, ISBN 0940450402, page 1109,
*:In the "announcement of courses" published annually by the faculty of the University of California the reader cannot fail to be impressed with the number and scope of the hours devoted by the students to recitations and lectures upon the subject of "literature."
*1999 October 29, J. Levine "Re: Debate on accreditation of Jones International", alt.education.distance , Usenet,
*:Many of my courses, however, were offered in recitation'-lecture format. We would attend class, say twice a week, and a lecture once a week. ... I do seem to recall that my ' recitation sections seldom had less than 40 to 50 students and my lecture classes often had upwards of 100 to 300 students.
google
(cricket) To deliver googlies.
(cricket) To move as a ball in a googly.
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.
To search for (something) on the Internet using the Google search engine.
(by extension) To search for (something) on the Internet using any comprehensive search engine.
(Internet) To be locatable in a search of the Internet.
''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...." }}
As a noun recitation
is recitation (act of reciting, material recited).As a verb google is
.recitation
English
Noun
(en noun)English
(wikipedia google)Etymology 1
From googly.Verb
(googl)Etymology 2
From Google.Noun
(en noun)- The word "oceanfront" has 6,150,000 googles , so I think it must be a real word.
Derived terms
* googlebomb * googles * googlewhack * googlishVerb
(googl)- Tom googles all of his prospective girlfriends.
- I googled him but there were no references to him on 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 * JFGIExternal links
*www.google.com