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browse

(brouz)

v. browsed, brows·ing, brows·es

v.intr.

a. To inspect something leisurely and casually: browsed through the map collection for items of interest.

b. To read something superficially by selecting passages at random: browsed through the report during lunch.

2. To look for information on the internet.

3. To feed on leaves, young shoots, and other vegetation; graze.

v.tr.

1. To look through or over (something) casually: browsed the newspaper; browsing the gift shops for souvenirs.

2. To read (websites) casually on the internet.

a. To nibble; crop.

b. To graze on.

1. Young twigs, leaves, and shoots that are fit for animals to eat.

2. An act of browsing.

[Probably from obsolete French broust, young shoot, from Old French brost, of Germanic origin.]

brows′a·ble (-zə-bəl) adj.

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browse

(braʊz)

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

2. (Communications & Information) computing to search for and read hypertext, esp on the internet

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

4. the act or an instance of browsing

5. (Zoology) the young twigs, shoots, leaves, etc, on which certain animals feed

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

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browse

(braʊz)

v. browsed, brows•ing,
n. v.t.

1. to eat, nibble at, or feed on (foliage, berries, etc.).

2. to graze; pasture on.

3. to look through or glance at casually.

v.i.

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

5. to graze.

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

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

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

9. an act or instance of browsing.

[1400–50; late Middle English]

browse

Past participle: browsed
Gerund: browsing

Imperative
browse
browse

Present
I browse
you browse
he/she/it browses
we browse
you browse
they browse

Preterite
I browsed
you browsed
he/she/it browsed
we browsed
you browsed
they browsed

Present Continuous
I am browsing
you are browsing
he/she/it is browsing
we are browsing
you are browsing
they are browsing

Present Perfect
I have browsed
you have browsed
he/she/it has browsed
we have browsed
you have browsed
they have browsed

Past Continuous
I was browsing
you were browsing
he/she/it was browsing
we were browsing
you were browsing
they were browsing

Past Perfect
I had browsed
you had browsed
he/she/it had browsed
we had browsed
you had browsed
they had browsed

Future
I will browse
you will browse
he/she/it will browse
we will browse
you will browse
they will browse

Future Perfect
I will have browsed
you will have browsed
he/she/it will have browsed
we will have browsed
you will have browsed
they will have browsed

Future Continuous
I will be browsing
you will be browsing
he/she/it will be browsing
we will be browsing
you will be browsing
they will be browsing

Present Perfect Continuous
I have been browsing
you have been browsing
he/she/it has been browsing
we have been browsing
you have been browsing
they have been browsing

Future Perfect Continuous
I will have been browsing
you will have been browsing
he/she/it will have been browsing
we will have been browsing
you will have been browsing
they will have been browsing

Past Perfect Continuous
I had been browsing
you had been browsing
he/she/it had been browsing
we had been browsing
you had been browsing
they had been browsing

Conditional
I would browse
you would browse
he/she/it would browse
we would browse
you would browse
they would browse

Past Conditional
I would have browsed
you would have browsed
he/she/it would have browsed
we would have browsed
you would have browsed
they would have browsed

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Noun	1.	browse - vegetation (such as young shoots, twigs, and leaves) that is suitable for animals to eat; "a deer needs to eat twenty pounds of browse every day" botany, flora, vegetation - all the plant life in a particular region or period; "Pleistocene vegetation"; "the flora of southern California"; "the botany of China"
	2.	browse - reading superficially or at random browsing reading - the cognitive process of understanding a written linguistic message; "his main reading was detective stories"; "suggestions for further reading"
	3.	browse - the act of feeding by continual nibbling browsing eating, feeding - the act of consuming food
Verb	1.	browse - shop around; not necessarily buying; "I don't need help, I'm just browsing" shop commerce, commercialism, mercantilism - transactions (sales and purchases) having the objective of supplying commodities (goods and services) surf, browse - look around casually and randomly, without seeking anything in particular; "browse a computer directory"; "surf the internet or the world wide web" look for, search, seek - try to locate or discover, or try to establish the existence of; "The police are searching for clues"; "They are searching for the missing man in the entire county" comparison-shop - compare prices for a given item antique - shop for antiques; "We went antiquing on Saturday" window-shop - examine the shop windows; shop with the eyes only
	2.	browse - feed as in a meadow or pasture; "the herd was grazing" graze, pasture, crop, range eat, feed - take in food; used of animals only; "This dog doesn't eat certain kinds of meat"; "What do whales eat?" range - let eat; "range the animals in the prairie" pasture, graze, crop - let feed in a field or pasture or meadow
	3.	browse - look around casually and randomly, without seeking anything in particular; "browse a computer directory"; "surf the internet or the world wide web" surf look for, search, seek - try to locate or discover, or try to establish the existence of; "The police are searching for clues"; "They are searching for the missing man in the entire county" browse, shop - shop around; not necessarily buying; "I don't need help, I'm just browsing"
	4.	browse - eat lightly, try different dishes; "There was so much food at the party that we quickly got sated just by browsing" graze nosh, snack - eat a snack; eat lightly; "She never loses weight because she snacks between meals"

browse

verb

1. skim, scan, glance at, survey, look through, look round, dip into, leaf through, peruse, flip through, examine cursorily There are plenty of biographies for him to browse over.

2. graze, eat, feed, crop, pasture, nibble three red deer stags browsing 50 yards from my lodge

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browse

verb

To look through reading matter casually:

dip into, flip through, glance at (or over) (or through), leaf (through), riffle (through), run through, scan, skim, thumb (through).

Translations

أكْلُ الحَيَواناتتَصَفُّحيَبْحَثُ عن مادّةٍ في الكومبيوترريَتَصَفَّحُ الكِتابيَرْعى، يأكُلُ العُشْب

hledatlistovatpást sepastvaprohledávat

ædebladebladenbrowsegræsse

äsen im Internet surfen Schmökern stöbern umsehen (sich)

ξεφυλλίζω

echar una ojeada ojear

selata

feuilleter naviguer brouter

razgledati

böngészésböngészikolvasgat

bíta, vera á beitblaîa í, skoîaglugg, skoîun

brucare curiosare curiosare in un negozio navigare scorsa

拾い読みする

훑어보다

ganytisnaršyklėnaršytinaršytojasskabymas

graušanagrauzt lapasparlukotpavirši lasīt, šķirstītšķirstīšana

rondkijken

beite bla gjennom bla i gresse kikke

przejrzeć

olhar sem compromisso

скользить взглядом

letmé prezeranie

brskatilistati

bläddra

ดูคร่าวๆ

göz atmakotlamaotlamakşöyle bir bakmaktaze sürgün

xem lướt qua

浏览浏览书等吃草或嫰叶放牧

browse

[braʊz]

A. VI

1. (in shop) → echar una ojeada, curiosear
to spend an hour browsing in a bookshop → pasar una hora hojeando los libros en una librería

2. [animal] → pacer

3. (Internet) → curiosear

B. VT

1. (also browse through) [+ book] → hojear; [+ clothes] → mirar, echar un vistazo a

2. [animal] [+ grass] → pacer; [+ trees] → ramonear

C. N to have a browse (around) → echar una ojeada or un vistazo

browse on VI + PREP [animal] → pacer

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browse

[ˈbraʊz]

(= look) (in shops)
"Hello may I help you?" - - "No, thanks, I'm just browsing." → "Bonjour, est-ce que je peux vous aider?" - - " Non merci, je regarde."
I like to spend Saturday mornings in town, browsing → J'aime passer mes samedis matin à flâner dans les boutiques.

(= read) → bouquiner, feuilleter les livres

(on Internet) → surfer sur le Net, naviguer sur le Net

[animal] → paître

(= look at) [+ shop] → flâner dans

(= visit) [+ site] → surfer sur, naviguer sur

(= look through) [+ book, catalogue] → feuilleter

n
to have a browse [shopper] → regarder dans les magasins

browse through

[+ book, paper] → feuilleter, parcourir

[+ site] → surfer sur, naviguer sur

browse

to browse among the books → in den Büchern schmökern; to browse through a book → in einem Buch schmökern; to browse (around) → sich umsehen

(Comput) → browsen, surfen

(cattle) → weiden; (deer) → äsen

vt to browse something → etw durchsehen or -suchen; to browse the Internet → im Internet surfen

n to have a browse (around) → sich umsehen; to have a browse through the books → in den Büchern schmökern; to have a browse around the bookshops → sich in den Buchläden umsehen

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browse

[braʊz]

1. vi (in bookshop) → curiosare (leggicchiando qua e là); (in other shop) → guardare in giro, curiosare; (animal) → brucare
to browse through a book → sfogliare un libro

2. n to have a browse (around) → dare un'occhiata (in giro)

browse

(brauz) verb

1. (of animals) to feed (on shoots or leaves of plants).

2. (of people) to glance through a book etc casually. I don't want to buy a book – I'm just browsing.

3. to search computer material, especially on a worldwide network.

noun

1. shoots, twigs or leaves as food for cattle.

2. an act of browsing.

browse

→ يَسْتَعْرِض prohlédnout browse umsehen (sich) ξεφυλλίζω echar una ojeada, ojear selata naviguer razgledati curiosare 拾い読みする 훑어보다 rondkijken bla gjennom przejrzeć olhar sem compromisso скользить взглядом bläddra ดูคร่าวๆ göz atmak xem lướt qua 浏览

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The hippopotamus, or river-horse, grazes upon the land and browses on the shrubs, yet is no less dangerous than the crocodile.

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You know no other daisies ( marguerites ) than those which your April greensward gives your cows to browse upon; while I, a poet, am hooted, and shiver, and owe twelve sous, and the soles of my shoes are so transparent, that they might serve as glasses for your lantern!

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And already the site of the house is undiscoverable, the location of the stone walls may be deduced from the configuration of the landscape, and I am renewing the battle, putting in angora goats to browse away the brush that has overrun Haska's clearing and choked Haska's apple trees to death.

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My horse was left to browse on the twigs that grew within his reach, while I explored the shores of the lake and the spot where Templeton stands.

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They must have led me a mile or more at least before they again halted and commenced to browse upon the rank, luxuriant grasses.

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Here and there a tuft of grass would peer above the snow; but they were in general driven to browse the twigs and tender branches of the trees.

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This study was conducted in Cholistan rangelands to collect information about the palatability and nutritive potential of browses that remained available throughout the year for livestock.

Consequently, this preliminary study has shown that identified browses have good palatability and feed potential for ruminants in the arid rangelands of Cholistan desert.

NUTRITIVE POTENTIAL AND PALATABILITY PREFERENCE OF BROWSE FOLIAGE BY LIVESTOCK IN ARID RANGELANDS OF CHOLISTAN DESERT (PAKISTAN)

It continues: "A graphical representation indicating the respective value of the grouping property associated with each 3D browsable stack can be displayed in proximity to the 3D browsable stack.As the user browses through the open windows in the browsable stack, one window is displayed in a frontal view at a time while the other windows are displayed in a side view.

New Apple patents reveal 3D Safari web browsing

When a computer is used by more than one person, or a person browses for curiosity rather than intent, it leaves room for misinterpretation, he notes.

Social networking sites leak personal information to tracking sites

Additional features found in GLAS @ccess include: the ability to display cross references and reference notes in authority controlled browse indexes (Author, Subject, Added entry browses), Online Help, and standard Windows features including drop-down menus and cut and paste options.

GLAS @CCESS IMPROVES ACCESS TO INFORMATION

ABSTRACT: We measured browse availability and use along foraging paths of GPS radio-collared moose (Alces alces) in northeastern Minnesota to estimate diet composition and browse species preference.