different between browse vs bourse

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

Borrowed from French bourse, from Old French borse, from Latin bursa, from Ancient Greek ????? (búrsa). Doublet of purse, compare Danish børs, Swedish börs, German Börse. See also bursar.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /b??s/, /b??s/

Noun

bourse (plural bourses)

1. A stock exchange.
   1. (figuratively) Any place, real or imagined, where the value of a thing is settled.
      • For quotations using this term, see Citations:bourse.
2. (philately) A meeting of stamp collectors and/or dealers, where stamps and covers are sold or exchanged.
3. (botany) The swollen basal part of an inflorescence axis at the onset of fruit development; it bears leaves whose axillary buds differentiate and may grow out as shoots.

Related terms

• burse

Translations

Further reading

• bourse on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Related terms

• bursar
• burse
• purse
• reimburse

Anagrams

• Brouse, besour, bouser

French

Etymology

From Old French borse, from Medieval Latin, Late Latin bursa, from Ancient Greek ????? (búrsa, “hide”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bu?s/

Noun

bourse f (plural bourses)

1. (obsolete) purse
2. money
3. financial grant
4. bourse, stock exchange
5. (in the plural) the scrotum
6. (in the plural, slang) balls
   • Ca remonte à quand, la dernière fois que tu t'es vidé les bourses ?

Derived terms

• bourse d'études
• bourse d'excellence
• boursier
• sans bourse délier

Descendants

• ? Arabic: ??????
• English: bourse
• Turkish: burs
• Romanian: burs?

References

• Nouveau Petit Larousse illustré. Dictionnaire encyclopédique. Paris, Librairie Larousse, 1952, 146th edition
• “bourse” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Middle French

Etymology

From Old French borse.

Noun

bourse f (plural bourses)

1. bag or purse

Descendants

• French: bourse
• German: Börse

Norman

Etymology

From Old French borse, from Medieval Latin, Late Latin bursa, from Ancient Greek ????? (búrsa, “hide”).

Pronunciation

Noun

bourse f (plural bourses)

1. (Jersey) mermaid's purse
2. (Jersey) shepherd's purse (Capsella bursa-pastoris)
3. (Jersey) corn salad (Valerianella locusta)

Synonyms

• (mermaid's purse): bourse au dgiâbl'ye, chiviéthe à bras, crapaud d'mé
• (shepherd's purse): pid d'ouaîthé

Descendants

• English: burse