From en.wiktionary.org:
** English
*** Etymology
From [en], from [en], [fro], from [fro], from a [en] source, perhaps [en],
from [en], from [en]. Cognate with [bar], [bar], [osx]. [en].
*** Pronunciation
- [en]
- [en]
- [en]
- [en]
*** Verb
[en-verb]
1. To scan , to casually look through in order to find items of interest, especially without knowledge of what to look for beforehand .
2. * [passage=At Hampton Court the little flocks of visitors are not provided with an official bellwether, but are left to BROWSE at discretion upon the local antiquities.]
3. * [passage=The little room in which he found himself was plainly the bookseller's sanctum, and contained his own private library. Gilbert BROWSED along the shelves curiously. The volumes were mostly shabby and bruised; they had evidently been picked up one by one in the humble mangers of the second-hand vendor.]
4. To move about while sampling, such as with food or products on display.
5. [en] To navigate through hyperlinked document s on a computer , usually with a browser .
6. * [en]
7. [en] To move about while eating parts of plants, especially plants other than pasture , such as shrub s or tree s.
8. * [passage=Sheep ranged everywhere under the low cedars. They BROWSED with noses in the frost, and from all around came the tinkle of tiny bells on the curly-horned rams, and an endless variety of bleats.]
9. * [en]
10. [en] To feed on , as pasture ; to pasture on; to graze .
11. * [volume=II]
12. * [passage=“If fifteen cows is BROWSING on a hillside, how many of them eats with their heads pointed the same direction?”]
**** Derived terms
[en]
**** Translations
[scan, casually look through]
- Arabic: [ar] , [ar]
- Catalan: [ca]
- Chinese:
- Czech: [cs] , [cs] , [cs]
- Danish: [da] [very quickly] , [da] [thoroughly] , [da] [books or documents] , [da] [in a shop]
- Dutch: [nl]
- Finnish: [fi] , [fi] ; [fi] [of media]
- French: [fr] , [fr]
- Georgian: [ka]
- German: [de] , [de] , [de] , [de]
- Hungarian: [hu] , [hu] , [hu]
- Indonesian: [id] , [id]
- Italian: [it] , [it]
- Japanese: [ja]
- Khmer: [km]
- Maori: [mi] , [mi]
- Mongolian: [mn]
- Persian: [fa]
- Polish: [pl]
- Portuguese: [pt]
- Romanian: [ro]
- Russian: [ru] , [ru]
- Serbo-Croatian: [sh]
- Spanish: [es] , [es] [Americanism] , [es] , [es]
- Swedish: [sv] [among things] , [sv] [something written or printed, turning pages] , [sv] [something written or printed]
- Thai: [th]
- Turkish: [tr]
- Vietnamese: [vi]
[trans-bottom]
[move about while sampling]
- Chinese:
- Finnish: [fi] ; [fi] [of food and drink]
- French: [fr] , [fr]
- Galician: [gl]
- Indonesian: [id]
- Swedish: [sv]
[trans-bottom]
[navigate through hyperlinked documents]
- Catalan: [ca]
- Chinese:
- Danish: [da] , [da]
- Dutch: [nl]
- Finnish: [fi]
- French: [fr]
- Georgian: [ka]
- German: [de] , [de]
- Hungarian: [hu]
- Indonesian: [id]
- Italian: [it]
- Japanese: [ja]
- Polish: [pl]
- Portuguese: [pt]
- Romanian: [ro]
- Scottish Gaelic: [gd]
- Serbo-Croatian: [sh]
- Slovene: [sl]
- Spanish: [es] , [es]
- Swedish: [sv] , [sv]
- Turkish: [tr]
[trans-bottom]
[move about while eating parts of plants]
- Armenian: [hy]
- Bulgarian: [bg]
- Catalan: [ca]
- Chinese:
- Danish: [da]
- Finnish: [fi]
- French: [fr]
- German: [de] , [de]
- Hungarian: [hu] , [hu] , [hu]
- Indonesian: [id]
- Latin: [la]
- Norwegian:
- Portuguese: [pt]
- Russian: [ru]
- Spanish: [es]
- Swedish: [sv]
- Turkish: [tr]
- Walloon: [wa] , [wa]
- Yiddish: [yi]
[trans-bottom]
*** Noun
[~]
1. [en] Young shoot s and twig s.
2. * [III]
3. * [passage=Sheep, goats, and oxen, and the nobler steed, / On BROWZ , and corn, and flowery meadows feed.]
4. [en] Fodder for cattle and other animals.
5. * [passage= The Grand Canyon seems to us Mormons to mark the line. There's enough BROWSE here to feed a hundred thousand cattle. But water's the thing.]
6. * {{ quote-text | en | year=1997 | url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100611165037/http://csfs.colostate.edu/pdfs/wildlife_values.pdf | title=Colorado State Forest Service
|passage=Also, when planting to provide a source of BROWSE for wintering deer
and elk, protect seedlings from browsing during the first several years; an
electric fence enclosure can offer effective protection.}}
1. * {{ quote-text | en | year=2007 | url=http://www.tpwd.state.tx.us/learning/resources/activities/bison/bisonfood1.phtml | title=Texas Parks and Wildlife Service
|passage=In the Panhandle Area, bison eat BROWSE that includes mesquite and
elm.}}
1. [en] The act of browsing through something.
2. [en] That which one browses through; something to read.
3. * {{ quote-text | en | year=1899 | author=Rudyard Kipling | title=Stalky & Co.
|passage=Here he buried himself in a close-printed, thickish volume which had
been his chosen BROWSE for some time.}}
1. [en] Bruised fish used as bait.
2. * 1873 , William Bottrell, _Traditions and hearthside stories of west Cornwall_ (page 145)
3. *: He cast in his hook-and-line, intending to take one fish only for his supper, from the multitude that always came around the rock on which he stood as soon as he cast in " BROWSE " (garbage to attract fish).
**** Derived terms
[en]
*** Further reading
- [R:Webster 1913]
- [R:Century 1911]
*** Anagrams
- [en]
** Danish
*** Verb
[da]
1. [da] to [en]
** Dutch
*** Pronunciation
- [nl]
*** Verb
[nl]
1. [nl]
** German
*** Pronunciation
- [de]
*** Verb
[de]
1. [de]