to browse

Definition of to browse in English English dictionary: brut; To successively load hyperlinked documents on a computer, usually with a browser; To move about while eating parts of plants, especially plants other than pasture, such as shrubs or trees; To move about while sampling, such as with food or products on display; {n} the young sprouts of trees, underwood; {v} to feed upon or east browse, to feed; feed as in a meadow or pasture; "the herd was grazing"; To visit Web sites, in plain terms, to view Web pages in the Internet Often called 'surfing' browse - Often you start at a search engine like Yahoo, AltaVista, Excite or Netscape You follow links, hopping from one page to another, and one site to another Incidentally, the Internet technically is the network of computers, whereas the World Wide Web (The Web) is the collection of Web pages and other documents on those computers; To scan, to casually look through in order to find items of interest, especially without knowledge of what to look for beforehand; To follow links in a page to scan through the list of journals, journal issues, and articles; (v ) To view the contents of a database or list of files without editing the information; {i} act of grazing; food eaten while grazing; perusal, superficial glance; look around casually and randomly, without seeking anything in particular; "browse a computer directory"; "surf the internet or the world wide web; If you browse on a computer, you search for information in computer files or on the Internet, especially on the World Wide Web. Try browsing around in the network bulletin boards; Twigs, leaves and young shoots of trees and shrubs that animals eat Browse is often used to refer to the shrubs eaten by big game, such as elk and deer; To eat or nibble off, as the tender branches of trees, shrubs, etc; a search for content on the Web; see also browser Naviger; the act of feeding by continual nibbling; To follow links in a page, to shop around in a page, exploring what's there, a bit like window shopping The opposite of browsing a page is searching it When you search a page, you find a search box, enter terms, and find all occurrences of the terms throughout the site When you browse, you have to guess which words on the page pertain to your interests Searching is usually more efficient, but sometimes you find things by browsing that you might not find because you might not think of the "right" term to search by; To browse the shelves of a library is to look at items and see what appears useful or interesting, as opposed to searching systematically using the online catalog; Use the Browse feature to look through a document using its elements For instance, you could look for specific text, the next or previous table, a specific page, the next or previous heading, or the next or previous footnote; To pasture; to feed; to nibble; reading superficially or at random; Media Center Resources Solar Wind Biomass Geothermal Water etc Projects TX Energy - Past and Present Financial Help; To feed on, as pasture; to pasture on; to graze; If you browse through a book or magazine, you look through it in a fairly casual way. sitting on the sofa browsing through the TV pages of the paper; To navigate among categories and their subcategories to pinpoint the resources you want to search for; Buds, shoots and leaves of woody plants that serves as food for wildlife, or the eating of same by wildlife; Small bushes, shrubs, trees and herbs that provide food for wildlife; the act of feeding by continual nibbling reading superficially or at random eat lightly, try different dishes; "There was so much food at the party that we quickly got sated just by browsing"; look around casually and randomly, without seeking anything in particular; "browse a computer directory"; "surf the internet or the world wide web"; If you browse in a shop, you look at things in a fairly casual way, in the hope that you might find something you like. I stopped in several bookstores to browse I'm just browsing around. Browse is also a noun. a browse around the shops; To browse is to examine pages on the World Wide Web using a software application such as Netscape Navigator or Internet Explorer; To examine and search through files, directories, the Internet etc; To look through a library catalog, library collection, bibliography, or other list of resources in a general, rather than a systematic, search for titles of interest To facilitate browsing, books on the same subject are assigned similar call numbers, which groups them together on the shelf In information retrieval, a search directed by the user in a dynamic but casual way A clearly formulated query may serve as the initial means of entry into an index or other finding tool, but the search which began systematically subsequently gives way to an exploratory approach Printed indexes are more browser-friendly than electronic databases because they allow the user to easily scan a continuous sequence of headings and entries, especially those that precede and follow the initial point of access to the list; To move through a database, examining its records and fields; The shrub and tree parts eaten by browsing animals; (n) Leaf and twig growth of shrubs, woody vines, trees, cacti, and other non-herbaceous vegetation available for animal consumption (v) To browse The consumption of browse in situ by animals (see also Forage; Graze); When animals browse, they feed on plants. the three red deer stags browsing 50 yards from my lodge on the fringes of the forest; To expand and collapse the folder tree to find a particular file or folder; Look around casually and randomly, without seeking anything in particular; "browse a computer directory"; "surf the internet or the world wide web" Source: Hyperdictionary; In Windows To look through files and directories Some dialog boxes have a Browse button, which opens another dialog box that lists files and directories so that you can easily select the file you want; {f} graze, pasture; leaf through a book, peruse a book; wander and look at one's leisure; (Computers) look over and explore searching for particular files or information on the World Wide Web, view data, surf the Internet; The tender branches or twigs of trees and shrubs, fit for the food of cattle and other animals; green food; In hypertext theory (and practice), browsing is often used as a synonym for navigation In a narrower sense, browsing means an intuitive and exploratory way to encounter information in a hypertext, analogous to leafing through books or strolling through a city; To casually explore the Internet See also: Internet, online, Web site, World Wide Web, browser; shop around; not necessarily buying; "I don't need help, I'm just browsing"; To feed on the tender branches or shoots of shrubs or trees, as do cattle, sheep, and deer; shrubs, trees and herbs that provide food for wildlife; said of cattle, sheep, deer, and some other animals; (1)That part of the current leaf and twig growth of potentially palatable shrubs, woody vines, and trees available for animal consumption It includes leaves Bark of some trees is included Fallen leaves of some species are eaten and represent an undecided element of the definition (2)The acts of consuming such growth; eat lightly, try different dishes; "There was so much food at the party that we quickly got sated just by browsing"