different between browse vs awash

English

Etymology

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 *b?rews- (“to swell, sprout”). Cognate with Bavarian Bross, Brosst (“a bud”), Old Saxon brustian (“to sprout”). Doublet of brut, breast, and brush.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /b?a?z/
• Homophone: brows
• Rhymes: -a?z

Verb

browse (third-person singular simple present browses, present participle browsing, simple past and past participle browsed)

1. To scan, to casually look through in order to find items of interest, especially without knowledge of what to look for beforehand.
2. To move about while sampling, such as with food or products on display.
3. (transitive, computing) To navigate through hyperlinked documents on a computer, usually with a browser.
4. (intransitive, of an animal) To move about while eating parts of plants, especially plants other than pasture, such as shrubs or trees.
   • 1997, Colorado State Forest Service

     Also, when planting to provide a source of browse for wintering deer and elk, protect seedlings from browsing during the first several years; an electric fence enclosure can offer effective protection.

5. (archaic, transitive) To feed on, as pasture; to pasture on; to graze.
   • ?, Alfred Tennyson, The Gardener's Daughter; or, The Pictures

     Fields […] browsed by deep-udder'd kine.

Derived terms

• browser
• browsable

Translations

Noun

browse (plural browses)

1. Young shoots and twigs.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.10:

     And with their horned feet the greene gras wore, / The whiles their Gotes upon the brouzes fedd […]
2. Fodder for cattle and other animals.
   • 1997, Colorado State Forest Service

     Also, when planting to provide a source of browse for wintering deer and elk, protect seedlings from browsing during the first several years; an electric fence enclosure can offer effective protection.

   • 2007, Texas Parks and Wildlife Service

     In the Panhandle Area, bison eat browse that includes mesquite and elm.

Further reading

• browse in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• browse in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Anagrams

• Bowers, Bowser, bowers, bowres, bowser

Danish

Verb

browse (imperative brows, present browser, past browsede, past participle browset)

1. (computing) to browse

Dutch

Pronunciation

Verb

browse

1. first-person singular present indicative of browsen
2. (archaic) singular present subjunctive of browsen
3. imperative of browsen

German

Verb

browse

1. inflection of browsen:
   1. first-person singular present
   2. first/third-person singular subjunctive I
   3. singular imperative

English

Etymology

a- +? wash

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??w??/
• Rhymes: -??

Adjective

awash (comparative more awash, superlative most awash)

1. Washed by the waves or tide (of a rock or strip of shore, or of an anchor, etc., when flush with the surface of the water, so that the waves break over it); covered with water.
   • 1835, Martin White, Sailing Directions for the English Channel, London: The Hydrographic Office, Admiralty p. 26,^[1]

     The former rock is awash at low water […]
2. (by extension) Covered, overspread (with or in something).
   • 2005, Chris Ramirez, 2nd find excites museum diggers," The Arizona Republic, 26 Aug,

     The Valley landscape was more awash with greenery some 11,000 years ago.

   • 2019, Lucy Ellmann, Ducks, Newburyport, Galley Beggar Press,^[3]

     […] the whole country’s awash in guns and Bibles,

   • 2019 December 10, Yacht Club Games, "Story" (Liquid Samurai), in Shovel Knight Showdown (version 4.1), Nintendo Switch, scene: opening:

Synonyms

• aslosh

Translations

Anagrams

• sawah