browse
Meaning
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- To scan, to casually look through in order to find items of interest, especially without knowledge of what to look for beforehand.
- To move about while sampling, such as with food or products on display.
- To navigate through hyperlinked documents on a computer, usually with a browser.
- To move about while eating parts of plants, especially plants other than pasture, such as shrubs or trees.
- To feed on, as pasture; to pasture on; to graze.
Synonyms
look out on
browse through
nibble at
surf the net
perusa
Frequency
Pronounced as (IPA)
/bɹaʊz/
Etymology
In summary
From Middle English browsen, from Old French brouster, broster (“to nibble off buds, sprouts, and bark; browse”), from brost (“a sprout, shoot, bud”), from a Germanic source, perhaps Frankish *brust (“shoot, bud”), from Proto-Germanic *brustiz (“bud, shoot”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰrews- (“to swell, sprout”). Cognate with Bavarian Bross, Brosst (“a bud”), Old Saxon brustian (“to sprout”). Doublet of brut, breast, and brush.
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