browse

browse
[[t]bra͟ʊz[/t]]
browses, browsing, browsed
1) VERB If you browse in a shop, you look at things in a fairly casual way, in the hope that you might find something you like.

I stopped in several bookstores to browse...

She browsed in an up-market antiques shop...

[V prep/adv] I'm just browsing around.

N-COUNT: usu sing
Browse is also a noun.

...a browse around the shops.

2) VERB If you browse through a book or magazine, you look through it in a fairly casual way.

[V prep] ...sitting on the sofa browsing through the TV pages of the paper...

[V prep] There are plenty of biographies for him to browse over.

3) VERB If you browse on a computer, you search for information in computer files or on the Internet, especially on the World Wide Web.

[V adv/prep] Try browsing around in the network bulletin boards.

4) VERB When animals browse, they feed on plants.

...the three red deer stags browsing 50 yards from my lodge on the fringes of the forest. [Also V on n, V n]


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  • browse — [brauz] v [Date: 1500 1600; Origin: Probably from early French brouster, from broust bud, shoot ] 1.) to look through the pages of a book, magazine etc without a particular purpose, just looking at the most interesting parts browse through ▪ Jon… …   Dictionary of contemporary English

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  • Browse — Browse, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Browsed} (brouzd); p. pr. & vb. n. {Browsing}.] [For broust, OF. brouster, bruster, F. brouter. See {Browse}, n., and cf. {Brut}.] 1. To eat or nibble off, as the tender branches of trees, shrubs, etc.; said of cattle …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • browse — UK US /braʊz/ verb [I or T] ► to look through a book or magazine without reading everything, or to walk around a store looking at things without intending to buy anything, or without knowing exactly what you want to buy: browse through sth »I was …   Financial and business terms

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  • Browse — (brouz), v. i. 1. To feed on the tender branches or shoots of shrubs or trees, as do cattle, sheep, and deer. [1913 Webster] 2. To pasture; to feed; to nibble; to graze. Shak. [1913 Webster] 3. To look casually through a book, books, or a set of… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

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  • browse — 1520s, feed on buds, from M.Fr. brouster, from O.Fr. broster to sprout, bud, from brost young shoot, twig, probably from P.Gmc. *brustjan to bud. Lost its final t in English on the mistaken notion that it was a pp. inflection. Figurative… …   Etymology dictionary

  • browse — [v] look around; look through check over, dip into*, examine cursorily, feed, flip through, get the cream*, give the once over*, glance at, graze, hit the high spots*, inspect loosely, leaf through, nibble*, once over lightly*, pass an eye over* …   New thesaurus

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