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browse
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As a verb, browse means scan, to casually look through in order to find items of interest, especially without knowledge of what to look for beforehand. As a noun, it means young shoots and twigs.
Meanings of browse
14 meaningsverb
To scan, to casually look through in order to find items of interest, especially without knowledge of what to look for beforehand.
“I'm just browsing around.”
“I stopped in several bookstores to browse.”
To move about while sampling, such as with food or products on display.
computingTo navigate through hyperlinked documents on a computer, usually with a browser.
of an animalTo move about while eating parts of plants, especially plants other than pasture, such as shrubs or trees.
Look around casually and randomly, without seeking anything in particular
“browse a computer directory”
“surf the internet or the world wide web”
Similar: surfEat lightly, try different dishes
“There was so much food at the party that we quickly got sated just by browsing”
Similar: graze
Older and rare meanings (1)
archaicTo 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.
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”
Reading superficially or at random
Similar: browsingThe act of feeding by continual nibbling
Similar: browsing
Meanings from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0).