browser
[brou-zer]
- a person or thing that browses.
- Also called Web browser. Digital Technology. a software program that allows the user to find and read encoded documents in a form suitable for display, especially such a program for use on the World Wide Web.
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Examples from the Web for browser
Contemporary Examples
Browser preference might come down to how many times you want to slip your headset on and off.
“People read or write documents, read or write emails, and mostly read or write through the browser,” says Malka.
But a browser plug-in that encrypts Facebook messages could change all that.
You open your browser, check your email, maybe read The Daily Beast, check Facebook, and sign off.
A Syrian activist, for example, can now experience the internet through the browser of a friend in the United States.
Historical Examples
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BeowulfUnknown
You may need to adjust your browser settings for them to display properly.
The Story of the Barbary CorsairsStanley Lane-Poole
Are they replaced by the computer, the Internet browser, and digital television?
The Civilization of IlliteracyMihai Nadin
If you are reading this text in a browser, you may like to adjust your window accordingly.
A Treatise on Wood EngravingJohn Jackson
Text containing these three characters will not be text-searchable in a browser.
The English Village CommunityFrederic Seebohm
browser
- a person or animal that browses
- computing a software package that enables a user to find and read hypertext files, esp on the Internet
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Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition
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Word Origin and History for browser
n.
1845, "animal which browses," agent noun from browse (v.). In the computer sense by 1982.
The first browser was invented at PARC by Larry Tesler, now a designer at Apple Computer. Tesler's first Smalltalk browser was a tree-structured device. It enabled programmers to hunt quickly for items in a Smalltalk dictionary. ["InfoWorld" magazine, vol. v., no. 4, Jan. 24, 1983]
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Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2010 Douglas Harper
browser
[brou′zər]
- A program that accesses and displays files and other data available on the Internet and other networks. Entering a website's URL in the address window of a browser will bring up that website in the browser's main window.
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The American Heritage® Science Dictionary
Copyright © 2011. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.
browser
See Web browser.
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The New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy, Third Edition
Copyright © 2005 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.