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browse
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)
- 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, computing) To navigate through hyperlinked documents on a computer, usually with a browser.
- (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.
- 1997, Colorado State Forest Service
- (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.
- ?, Alfred Tennyson, The Gardener's Daughter; or, The Pictures
Derived terms
- browser
- browsable
Translations
Noun
browse (plural browses)
- 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 […]
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.10:
- 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.
- 1997, Colorado State Forest Service
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)
- (computing) to browse
Dutch
Pronunciation
Verb
browse
- first-person singular present indicative of browsen
- (archaic) singular present subjunctive of browsen
- imperative of browsen
German
Verb
browse
- inflection of browsen:
- first-person singular present
- first/third-person singular subjunctive I
- singular imperative
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hilar
English
Etymology
A macaronic blend of Latin h?lum (“trifle”), +? -ar.
Adjective
hilar (comparative more hilar, superlative most hilar)
- Relating to or near a hilum.
Derived terms
- infrahilar, nonhilar, perihilar, prehilar, retrohilar, subhilar, suprahilar
Romanian
Adjective
hilar m or n (feminine singular hilar?, masculine plural hilari, feminine and neuter plural hilare)
- Alternative form of ilar
Declension
Spanish
Etymology
From Late Latin f?l?re, from Latin f?lum. Compare Portuguese fiar, Italian filare, French filer.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /i?la?/, [i?la?]
Verb
hilar (first-person singular present hilo, first-person singular preterite hilé, past participle hilado)
- to spin (as with thread)
- to string together, put together (words, to make coherent sentences)
Conjugation
Related terms
- hilo
- rehilar
Further reading
- “hilar” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.
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