browse

Meanings

Verb

  • 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.

Noun

  • Young shoots and twigs.
  • Fodder for cattle and other animals.
  • That which one browses through; something to read.

Origin

  • Middle English browsen, from Old French brouster, broster, from brost, from a Germanic source, perhaps Frankish *brust ("shoot, bud"), from Proto-Germanic *brustiz ("bud, shoot"), from Proto-Indo-European *bĘ°rews- ("to swell, sprout"). Cognate with Bavarian Bross, Brosst, Old Saxon brustian ("to sprout"). brut, breast, and brush.

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