See also: search box

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searchbox (plural searchboxes)

  1. Alternative form of search box.
    • 2013 June, Robin Leonard, Margaret Reiter, Credit Repair, 11th edition, Berkeley, Calif.: Nolo, →ISBN, page 298:
      To find if your state has a security freeze law, check out the Consumers Union website at www.consumersunion.org and type “security freeze” into the searchbox or visit one of the three nationwide credit reporting agency websites.
    • 2014, James Purkis, “Shakespeare’s Singularity and Sir Thomas More”, in Peter Holland, editor, Shakespeare’s Collaborative Work (Shakespeare Survey; 67), Cambridge, Cambs.: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 162, column 1:
      Jackson entered the text of the Hand-D addition into the searchboxes of the Chadwyck-Healey ‘Literature Online’ database ‘phrase by phrase, collocation by collocation, and even content word by content word’, and recorded all of the instances where the search term was shared by five or fewer plays other than More performed between 1590 and 1610.
    • 2017 May, “Astro Photography”, in Chris Bramley, editor, BBC Sky at Night Magazine, number 144, Bristol: Immediate Media Company, →ISSN, page 10:
      Take a shortcut to the product by typing the item number into the searchbox at Astroshop.co.uk!