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LEFT-POINTING MAGNIFYING GLASS
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Translingual

Description

A left-facing magnifying glass.

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🔍

  1. Searching; inspecting; investigating.
    • 2017 January 8, ITV, Twitter‎ (in English):
      Oxford's finest detective returns for a new series, but can he unmask a killer..? 🔍 🤔
    • 2017 December 3, August Ames, Twitter‎ (in English):
      Do agents really not care about who they're representing? #ladirect I do my homework for my body🤓✏️🔍
    • 2023 August 24, Mehera Bonner, “Fans Flood Kylie Jenner and Timothée Chalamet's Comments With Theories They're Taking Each Others' Pics”, in Cosmopolitan‎ (in English):
      Time to read into some fancy European vacation pictures. 🔍 [subtitle]
  2. Detectives.
  3. (graphical user interface) An icon to search something.
    • 2005, Spotlight (in English):
      [This system-wide desktop search feature for macOS and iOS uses a left-leaning magnifying glass as its search icon.]
    • 2022 December 5, Julian Chen, Second Life as a Virtual Playground for Language Education: A Practical Guide for Teaching and Research (in English), Taylor & Francis, →ISBN, unnumbered page:
      You can also use the Search function (🔍) to look for interesting events or places with their associated teleport links, maps, and information.
  4. (graphical user interface) An icon to zoom in or enlarge content.[1]

Usage notes

As a search icon, it often appears next to the search box of an application.

References

  1. ^ Robin Williams, Steve Cummings (1993) Jargon: An Informal Dictionary of Computer Terms‎, Peachpit Press, →ISBN, page 205: “You might also have a magnifying glass tool, or a menu command for FatBits or a command to Enlarge.”

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