to browse
95
2.8
- verb
- /braʊz/
:
curiosear
- Oh, we're just browsing.
- browse the Internet
- browse and search
- browse the web
So then, now we are ready to browse the web anonymously.
- So then, now we are ready to browse the web anonymously.
- law, no IRS employee has the right to browse through taxpayer records.
- So sort and browse I continue to do.
- So you could read some text, you could browse a web page, but it's not sharp.
- You don't want them just browsing around on their own.
- And they have no ability to, to, to browse through the wide spectrum of career choices.
- Which from my like, browsing through, it's a long list, huh?
- And it's very just like it doesn't look like I'm browsing, like just some really irks me, man.
- In this video browse Anastasia Beverly Hills dip brow pomade.
Examples
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So we're going in to browse and let's see what we get.
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While waiting for her friend, she decided to browse through the bookstore and see if anything caught her eye.
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And I was like, girl, you do not know how often I browse that website.
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- Perhaps you can browse while you wait.
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I just like to browse, if I may.
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Look around, browse around, make yourself at home...
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Now I go by every day and browse and buy whatever interests me.
Fiction book (1992) -
The teacher created a reading center in which the students could browse texts on famous inventors.
Academic text (2002) -
A man stood in the shop browsing, pulling out coats from the rack and examining them.
Fiction book (1997) -
While they were busy talking, I browsed in the store; I inspected the statues up close.
Fiction book (1997)
Synonyms
43
2.7
To look around online or through TV channels
18
3.2
Look at something quickly without reading it carefully
11
3.5
To look at items in shop windows without planning to buy
10
8.2
To look quickly and casually at something you are curious about
1
2.3
To look through web pages on the internet for information or fun
Antonyms
Phrasal Verbs
- Texting
1
2.3
To look through web pages on the internet for information or fun
How Purposeful
- US
70
6.2
868
2.5
202
2.5
∞
1.0
95
2.8
299
1.5
119
1.1
Surface Forms
Etymology
Browse originally meant 'to eat leaves and twigs'. Because animals move slowly and sample plants, we started using browse for moving around shops or websites and looking at things without a plan, just sampling items.