Phrase guide
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Sound
Each Play button uses your device's default local English voice, or a natural local fallback. The selected voice name appears after playback. This is synthesized speech, not a source recording.
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verb
To search for (something) on the Internet using the Ask Jeeves search engine.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Internet
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noun
a widely used search engine accepting plain English questions or phrases or terms
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: search engine
History
From Ask Jeeves, a search engine named after Jeeves, a fictional valet in the works of P. G. Wodehouse.
