browse

Plural: browses

Noun

• 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
• the act of feeding by continual nibbling
• Young shoots and twigs.
• Fodder for cattle and other animals.
• The act of browsing through something.
• That which one browses through; something to read.
• Bruised fish used as bait.

Verb

Verb Forms: browsed, browsing, browses

• To casually look through or graze; to examine without purpose.
• shop around; not necessarily buying
• feed as in a meadow or pasture
• look around casually and randomly, without seeking anything in particular
  • "browse a computer directory"
• eat lightly, try different dishes
• 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.

Examples

• He liked to BROWSE through the dictionary for new words to use in Scrabble.
• I had a browse in the old bookshop.
• I stopped in several bookstores to browse.
• I'm just browsing around.

Synonyms

browsing, crop, graze, pasture, range, shop, surf

Anagrams of browse