Crossword clues for browse
browse
- Surf the Web
- Shop aimlessly
- Look at casually
- Linger in the bookstore
- Window shop via the Internet
- Walk through stores casually
- Use the Web
- Use Google or Bing
- Use Google Chrome, e.g
- Use Firefox, say
- Tour a bookstore
- Surf the Internet
- Shop without planning to buy
- Shop with the eyes only
- Shop for nothing special
- Shop for books
- Sample the wares in a bookshop
- Relax at the library
- Relative of window-shop
- Look casually
- Linger in a bookstore, e.g
- Graze — glance through a book, magazine etc
- Go from URL to URL
- Go from site to site?
- Check what's on sale
- Check out the stock
- Check out the merch
- Casually look through
- Enjoy a bookstore
- Shop without anything particular in mind
- Window-shop
- Shop without buying
- Leaf through (a book)
- Look without buying
- Wander in a library
- Read a little here and there
- Look around casually
- Netflix menu heading
- Look a little here, look a little there
- Reading superficially or at random
- The act of feeding by continual nibbling
- Spend time in a bookstore
- Skim some books
- Linger at a bookstore
- Just look
- Sample the library
- Graze on or skim
- Sample a library's offerings
- Look at various things on the Internet
- Read casually, gets worse in translation
- Peruse file obstructing stock problem
- Idly read and eat
- Glance at
- Look through casually
- Look around a store before buying
- Use Google, e.g
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Browse \Browse\ (brouz), n. [OF. brost, broust, sprout, shoot,
F. brout browse, browsewood, prob. fr. OHG. burst, G. borste,
bristle; cf. also Armor. brousta to browse. See Bristle,
n., Brush, n.]
The tender branches or twigs of trees and shrubs, fit for the
food of cattle and other animals; green food.
--Spenser.
Sheep, goats, and oxen, and the nobler steed,
On browse, and corn, and flowery meadows feed.
--Dryden.
Browse \Browse\ (brouz), v. i.
To feed on the tender branches or shoots of shrubs or trees, as do cattle, sheep, and deer.
To pasture; to feed; to nibble; to graze.
--Shak.To look casually through a book, books, or a set of documents, reading those parts which arouse one's interest.
To search through a group of items to find something, not previously specified, which may be of interest.
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.]
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To eat or nibble off, as the tender branches of trees, shrubs, etc.; -- said of cattle, sheep, deer, and some other animals.
Yes, like the stag, when snow the plasture sheets, The barks of trees thou browsedst.
--Shak. -
To feed on, as pasture; to pasture on; to graze.
Fields . . . browsed by deep-uddered kine.
--Tennyson. -
To look casually through (a book, books, or a set of documents), reading those parts which arouse one's interest. Contrasted with scan, in which one typically is searching for something specific.
3. (Computers) To look at a series of electronic documents on a computer screen by means of a browser[2].
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
mid-15c., "feed on buds," from Middle French brouster, from Old French broster "to sprout, bud," from brost "young shoot, twig," probably from Proto-Germanic *brust- "bud, shoot," from PIE *bhreus- "to swell, sprout" (see breast (n.)). Lost its final -t in English on the mistaken notion that the letter was a past participle inflection. Figurative extension to "peruse" (books) is 1870s, American English. Related: Browsed; browsing.
Wiktionary
n. 1 Young shoots and twigs. 2 fodder for cattle and other animals. vb. 1 To scan, to casually look through in order to find items of interest, especially without knowledge of what to look for beforehand. 2 To move about while sampling, such as with food or products on display. 3 (context transitive computing English) To navigate through hyperlinked documents on a computer, usually with a browser. 4 (context intransitive of an animal English) To move about while eating parts of plants, especially plants other than pasture, such as shrubs or trees. 5 (context transitive English) To feed on, as pasture; to pasture on; to graze.
WordNet
v. shop around; not necessarily buying; "I don't need help, I'm just browsing" [syn: shop]
feed as in a meadow or pasture; "the herd was grazing" [syn: crop, graze, range, pasture]
look around casually and randomly, without seeking anything in particular; "browse a computer directory"; "surf the internet or the world wide web" [syn: surf]
eat lightly, try different dishes; "There was so much food at the party that we quickly got sated just by browsing" [syn: graze]
Usage examples of "browse".
The size of small dogs with long, trailing tails, these fast, solitary runners, browsing on leaves and fallen fruit, were ancestors of the mighty artiodactyl family, which would one day include pigs, sheep, cattle, reindeer, antelope, giraffes, and camels.
The burrowers were locked into intricate ecological cycles involving the abundance of the vegetation and insects they browsed, and the carnivores who preyed on them in turn.
There was True Timothy, the king of the palliards, a vast browsing figure, whose paunch stuck out beyond the others like a flying buttress.
Well, we think that a time may come when we who live on shrubs like goats may again browse on tree-tops like giraffes, for Panda is no strong king, and he has sons who hate each other, one of whom may need our spears.
She takes her seat at the helm of Rackham Perfumeries and waits for a few minutes, tidying stacks of paper, browsing through The Times.
What he needed was a ladder, but his only attempt to leave the pinetum to look for one had been foiled by the sight of a rhinoceros browsing in the rockery and of a lion sunning itself outside the kitchen door.
He went looking for one, prowling along the walls of the hangar, browsing through equipment and tools.
A quaintish village straggled away on the right, and on the left the dark, fat meadows were lighted up with misty sun spots and browsing sheep.
As I stood browsing at my bookshelf, Reamy wandered into the room to see what I was up to, so I compared my memory of the poem with his.
Steeds were browsing in the shade, with loosened bits, but saddled, ready at the first sound of the bugle to skirr through brake and thicket.
Wilson Tenney or some other cruel loner up here, browsing, maybe even buying.
There would be no hours in the library, browsing through books collected, not only by the House of Treves, but by the House of Kaullis before them.
He reined off the riverside trail into stirrup-high rabbitbrush that for them horses to browse as he uncinched his borrowed stock saddle and put it aboard the buckskin, telling the paint he was sorry those Mexican kids back at Rancho Alvera had apparently allowed it to cool off too fast.
Livestock wandered aimlessly, browsing on the standing grain, while unmilked cows bellowed in agony.
And though few if any of the horses were familiar with arborvitae, after a bit some began to browse it.