browse
English
/bɹaʊz/
verb
Definitions
- 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.
- (transitive) To navigate through hyperlinked documents on a computer, usually with a browser.
- (intransitive) To move about while eating parts of plants, especially plants other than pasture, such as shrubs or trees.
- (archaic) To feed on, as pasture; to pasture on; to graze.
Etymology
Inherited from Middle English browsen derived from Old French brouster derived from Frankish *brust (shoot, bud) derived from Proto-Germanic *brustiz (shoot, bud) derived from Proto-Indo-European *bʰrews- (swell, blow, inflate, break, sprout).
Origin
Proto-Indo-European
*bʰrews-
Gloss
swell, blow, inflate, break, sprout
Concept
Semantic Field
Basic actions and technology
Ontological Category
Action/Process
Emoji
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- browsability English
- browsable English
- browseability English
- browseable English
- browser English
- browserify English
- browserish English
- browserless English
- browsewood English
- browsewrap English
- cross-browser English
- mesobrowser English
- microbrowser English
- minibrowser English
- nonbrowser English
- overbrowse English
- unbrowsable English
- wood English
- wrap English
- bruscum Latin
- Browser German
- browser Italian
- browsen Dutch, Flemish
- browser Dutch, Flemish
- браузер Russian
- *bʰrewd- Proto-Indo-European
- *bʰrews- Proto-Indo-European
- *bʰrus-tós Proto-Indo-European
- *bʰruto- Proto-Indo-European
- *breuskiz Proto-Germanic
- *breustą Proto-Germanic
- *briuskiz Proto-Germanic
- *brustijaną Proto-Germanic
- *brustiz Proto-Germanic
- *brusts Proto-Germanic
- ブラウザ Japanese
- brȳsan Old English
- browsen Middle English
- bruisen Middle English
- browser Danish
- brouster Old French
- brauzer Serbo-Croatian
- เบราว์เซอร์ Thai
- brabhsaich Gaelic, Scottish Gaelic
- brabhsair Gaelic, Scottish Gaelic
- brauzer Azerbaijani
- *bruseti Proto-Celtic
- brustian Old Saxon
- 브라우저 Korean
- *brust Frankish
- *brauša Proto-Albanian