browse

名词 n. 动词 v.
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英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Young shoots and twigs. uncountable
    — And with their horned feet the greene gras wore, / The whiles their Gotes upon the brouzes fedd […]
  2. Fodder for cattle and other animals. uncountable
    — The Grand Canyon seems to us Mormons to mark the line. There's enough browse here to feed a hundred thousand cattle. But water's the thing.
  3. The act of browsing through something. countable
    — I had a browse in the old bookshop.
  4. That which one browses through; something to read. countable
    — Here he buried himself in a close-printed, thickish volume which had been his chosen browse for some time.
  5. Bruised fish used as bait. Cornwall,uncountable
    — He cast in his hook-and-line, intending to take one fish only for his supper, from the multitude that always came around the rock on which he stood as soon as he cast in "browse" (garbage to attract fish).
动词 v.
  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.
  2. To move about while sampling, such as with food or products on display.
  3. To navigate through hyperlinked documents on a computer, usually with a browser. transitive
    — HyperText is a way to link and access information of various kinds as a web of nodes in which the user can browse at will.
  4. To move about while eating parts of plants, especially plants other than pasture, such as shrubs or trees. intransitive
    — Sheep ranged everywhere under the low cedars. They browsed with noses in the frost, and from all around came the tinkle of tiny bells on the curly-horned rams, and an endless variety of bleats.
  5. To feed on, as pasture; to pasture on; to graze. archaic
    — The fields between / Are dewy-fresh, brows'd by deep-udder'd kine, […]

词形变化

browses present,singular,third-person browsing participle,present browsed participle,past browsed past browses plural

词汇关系

衍生词
browsability browsable browseable browser browsewood browsewrap browsy nonbrowsing overbrowse unbrowsed browse milkvetch

词源

词源 1
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.
词源 2
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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