Meaning

5 senses

  1. 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.

    blättern, durchsuchen, stöbern

    просма́триватьprosmátrivatʹ, просмотре́тьprosmotrétʹ

    look around casually and randomly, without seeking anything in particular

  2. To move about while sampling, such as with food or products on display.

  3. (transitive)To navigate through hyperlinked documents on a computer, usually with a browser.

    browsen, surfen

  4. (intransitive)To move about while eating parts of plants, especially plants other than pasture, such as shrubs or trees.

    grasen, äsen

    пасти́сьpastísʹ

  5. (archaic)To feed on, as pasture; to pasture on; to graze.

    feed as in a meadow or pasture

Examples

61 sentences

  1. Tom is browsing the web.

    deTom stöbert im Netz.

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  2. The extension siphoned off browsing history.

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  3. Tom is browsing in incognito mode.

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  4. Did you clear your browsing history?

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  5. Have you browsed house listings online?

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Translations

8 languages
Русский
By meaning 2
scan, casually look through:
move about while eating parts of plants:
Deutsch
By meaning 3
scan, casually look through:
navigate through hyperlinked documents:
move about while eating parts of plants:

Origin

From Middle English browsen, from Old French brouster, broster (“to nibble off buds, sprou

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.

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Forms

browses, browsing, browsed, browsed
Base formbrowse · to browse
3rd person singularbrowses
Present participlebrowsing
Past simplebrowsed
Past participlebrowsed

regular · Lesson

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theybrowse
he, she, itbrowses

Past simpleLesson

all personsbrowsed

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave browsed
he, she, ithas browsed

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill browse

Synonyms

6 synonyms
Close in meaning
  • eat lightly, try different dishes:graze
  • look around casually and randomly, without seeking anything in particular:surf
  • feed as in a meadow or pasture:cropgrazerangepasture
  • shop around; not necessarily buying:shop

Word family

9 related words
Relatedbrowser
Derivedbrowsabilitybrowsablebrowsewoodbrowsewrapbrowsynonbrowsingoverbrowseunbrowsed

Lessons for this word

3 lessons

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
brownA2browniebrownishbrowserB2brrbruiseB2
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