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- to steal and consume food within a storeThe thief adopts the feeding habits of a ruminant, carrying his booty past the checkout desk in his stomach.
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browse — [ brauz ] verb * 1. ) intransitive or transitive COMPUTING to look for information on a computer, especially on the Internet: cell phones that can browse the Web a ) to look at a Web site on the Internet: an excellent graphical interface for… … Usage of the words and phrases in modern English
browse — [brauz] v [Date: 1500 1600; Origin: Probably from early French brouster, from broust bud, shoot ] 1.) to look through the pages of a book, magazine etc without a particular purpose, just looking at the most interesting parts browse through ▪ Jon… … Dictionary of contemporary English
Browse — (brouz), n. [OF. brost, broust, sprout, shoot, F. brout browse, browsewood, prob. fr. OHG. burst, G. borste, bristle; cf. also Armor. brousta to browse. See {Bristle}, n., {Brush}, n.] The tender branches or twigs of trees and shrubs, fit for the … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
Browse — Browse, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Browsed} (brouzd); p. pr. & vb. n. {Browsing}.] [For broust, OF. brouster, bruster, F. brouter. See {Browse}, n., and cf. {Brut}.] 1. To eat or nibble off, as the tender branches of trees, shrubs, etc.; said of cattle … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
browse — UK US /braʊz/ verb [I or T] ► to look through a book or magazine without reading everything, or to walk around a store looking at things without intending to buy anything, or without knowing exactly what you want to buy: browse through sth »I was … Financial and business terms
browse — Grazing animals, rather than people browsing in books, provide the grammatical analogy for the new meaning in computing, ‘to read or survey data files’, which can be transitive or intransitive: (transitive) • Internet cafés aren t just places to… … Modern English usage
Browse — (brouz), v. i. 1. To feed on the tender branches or shoots of shrubs or trees, as do cattle, sheep, and deer. [1913 Webster] 2. To pasture; to feed; to nibble; to graze. Shak. [1913 Webster] 3. To look casually through a book, books, or a set of… … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
browse — index peruse Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 browse v. To move from website to websit … Law dictionary
Browse — [dt. blättern, überfliegen, durchblättern], das Blättern in den am Bildschirm angezeigten Daten, meistens in Zusammenhang mit einer Datenbank (Browse Modus) … Universal-Lexikon
browse — 1520s, feed on buds, from M.Fr. brouster, from O.Fr. broster to sprout, bud, from brost young shoot, twig, probably from P.Gmc. *brustjan to bud. Lost its final t in English on the mistaken notion that it was a pp. inflection. Figurative… … Etymology dictionary
browse — [v] look around; look through check over, dip into*, examine cursorily, feed, flip through, get the cream*, give the once over*, glance at, graze, hit the high spots*, inspect loosely, leaf through, nibble*, once over lightly*, pass an eye over* … New thesaurus
