browse
/bɹaʊz/ · verb
Meaning
- 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.
- 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.
Etymology / origin
From Middle English browsen, from Old French brouster, broster (“to nibble off buds, sprouts, and bark; browse”), from brost (“a sprout, shoot, bud”), from a Germanic source, perhaps Frankish *brust (“shoot, bud”), from Proto-Germanic *brustiz (“bud, shoot”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰrews- (“to swell, sprout”). Cognate with Bavarian Bross, Brosst (“a bud”), Old Saxon brustian (“to sprout”). Doublet of brut, breast, and brush.
- brustian(Old Saxon)→
- Bross(bar)→
- *bʰrews-(ine-pro)→
- *brustiz(gem-pro)→
- *brust(frk)→
- brouster(fro)→
- browsen(enm)→
- browse (English)
- Relations: inh, der, der, der, der, cog, cog
Related words
Descendant words
- browsen(Dutch) (bor)
- brabhsaich(Scottish Gaelic) (bor)
- panginain(Tagalog) (cog)
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