browse

[ brouz ]

/ braʊz /

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verb (used with object), browsed, brows·ing.

to eat, nibble at, or feed on (leaves, tender shoots, or other soft vegetation).

to graze; pasture on.

to look through or glance at casually or randomly: He's browsing the shelves for something to read.

to access and view (website content) with a Web browser, usually without looking for something specific: a secure way to browse the Web.

verb (used without object), browsed, brows·ing.

to feed on or nibble at foliage, lichen, berries, etc.

to graze.

to glance at random through a book, magazine, etc.

to look leisurely at goods displayed for sale, as in a store.

to access and view websites with a Web browser, as in mobile browsing; online browsing:If you love to browse while on the road, you can easily take advantage of free Wi-Fi .

noun

tender shoots or twigs of shrubs and trees as food for cattle, deer, etc.

an act or instance of browsing.

OTHER WORDS FOR browse

3 scan, skim, examine, peruse, check.

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Origin of browse

1400–50; late Middle English browsen, perhaps a verbal derivative of Anglo-French broz, plural of brot shoot, new growth, Old French brost<Old Low Franconian *brust bud, noun derivative of *brustjan; compare Old Saxon brustian to come into bud

OTHER WORDS FROM browse

browser, nounnon·brows·ing, adjective, nouno·ver·browse, verb (used with object), o·ver·browsed, o·ver·brows·ing.un·brows·ing, adjective

WORDS THAT MAY BE CONFUSED WITH browse

brows, browse

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How to use browse in a sentence

“She spent 20 minutes browsing the shelves of Baby Gap,” a source said.
Kate Shops At Baby Gap For George|Tom Sykes|April 1, 2014|DAILY BEAST
While browsing a Beverly Hills record store he was approached by a “weird dwarfish man with huge eyeglasses”.
The Week in Death: George Jacobs, Sinatra’s Domestic Confidant|The Telegraph|February 23, 2014|DAILY BEAST
You just need to breach a fence and know their browsing areas.
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But a quick browsing of OkCupid listings will show that this is certainly not the case.
The Struggle To Find Trans Love|Julia Serano|January 14, 2014|DAILY BEAST

Google Chrome has a whole bunch of extensions meant to make browsing the Internet better, faster, and more secure.
Surf Better With These 9 Killer Google Chrome Extensions|Brian Ries|December 11, 2013|DAILY BEAST
If fifteen cows is browsing on a hillside, how many of them eats with their heads pointed the same direction?
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Complete|Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens)
There they were apparently—scores of them, browsing calmly in a depression in a fertile patch where most probably water existed.
The Adventures of Louis de Rougemont|Louis de Rougemont
The cab-horse, who was browsing near, lifted his head with a sigh.
Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz|L. Frank Baum
A doe and her fawn were browsing upon some bushes down near the river.
Prairie Smoke (Second Edition, Revised)|Melvin Randolph Gilmore
Browsing on the corn-stalks were three sleek, well-kept milch-cows and a goat.
The Continental Monthly, Vol. 2, No. 2, August, 1862|Various

British Dictionary definitions for browse

browse

/ (braʊz) /

verb

to look through (a book, articles for sale in a shop, etc) in a casual leisurely manner

computing to search for and read hypertext, esp on the Internet

(of deer, goats, etc) to feed upon (vegetation) by continual nibbling

noun

the act or an instance of browsing

the young twigs, shoots, leaves, etc, on which certain animals feed

Word Origin for browse

C15: from French broust, brost (modern French brout) bud, of Germanic origin; compare Old Saxon brustian to bud

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