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goggle (GAH guhl)
1. To roll one’s eyes; to stare with bulging eyes: "Every time she told a lie, her mother responded with a goggle-eyed expression."
2. To roll; bulge: "The children’s eyes goggled at the magician pulling a rabbit out of the empty hat."
3. Goggles; large, close-fitting eyeglasses to protect the eyes from light, dust, sawdust, etc.: "Whenever he rides his motorcycle, he wears goggles to protect his eyes from insects and dust or small stones."
2. To roll; bulge: "The children’s eyes goggled at the magician pulling a rabbit out of the empty hat."
3. Goggles; large, close-fitting eyeglasses to protect the eyes from light, dust, sawdust, etc.: "Whenever he rides his motorcycle, he wears goggles to protect his eyes from insects and dust or small stones."
goggle, google, googol
goggle (GAH guhl) (verb)
To look at something or someone with the eyes wide open in a way that shows that a person is surprised, amazed, etc.: The huge statue caused him to goggle in wonder.
Google (GOO g'l) (noun)
The name of the search engine and software company is a deliberate variant of the mathematical term googol: The company’s founders, Larry Page and Sergey Brin, came up with the name Google in 1998 by altering the spelling for trademark purposes.
googol (GOO g'l) (noun)
The term is numerically valued as: (10100) 1 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000: This googol is frequently used in mathematics.
A googol was once said to have more than the number of raindrops falling on the city in a century, or the number of grains of sand on the Coney Island beach.
Joshua was all a goggle when he tried to comprehend the number googol. In fact, William had to use Google to get the correct definition.
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Confusing Words Clarified: Group G; Homonyms, Homophones, Homographs, Synonyms, Polysemes, etc. +
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