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brows⋅er

[brou-zer]

–noun

1.	a person or thing that browses.

2.	Computers. a software program that allows the user to find and read encoded documents in a form suitable for display, esp. such a program for use on the World Wide Web.

Language Translation for : browser

Spanish:

navegador, internauta,

German:

der Browser,

Japanese:

情報を閲覧する人

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browse

[brouz]

verb, browsed, brows⋅ing, noun

–verb (used with object)

1.	to eat, nibble at, or feed on (leaves, tender shoots, or other soft vegetation).

2.	to graze; pasture on.

3.	to look through or glance at casually: He's browsing the shelves for something to read.

–verb (used without object)

4.	to feed on or nibble at foliage, lichen, berries, etc.

to graze.

6.	to glance at random through a book, magazine, etc.

7.	to look leisurely at goods displayed for sale, as in a store.

–noun

8.	tender shoots or twigs of shrubs and trees as food for cattle, deer, etc.

9.	an act or instance of browsing.

Origin:
1400–50; late ME browsen, perh. a v. deriv. of AF broz, pl. of brot shoot, new growth, OF brost < Old Low Franconian *brust bud, n. deriv. of *brustjan; cf. OS brustian to come into bud

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brow·ser (brou'zər) Pronunciation Key
n.

One that browses.
Computer Science A program that accesses and displays files and other data available on the Internet and other networks.

The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
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browser
noun
1.	a viewer who looks around casually without seeking anything in particular
2.	a program used to view HTML documents

browser (brou'zər) Pronunciation Key
A program that accesses and displays files and other data available on the Internet and other networks. Entering a website's URL in the address window of a browser will bring up that website in the browser's main window.

browser

See Web browser.

browser hypertext
A program which allows a person to read hypertext. The browser gives some means of viewing the contents of nodes (or "pages") and of navigating from one node to another.
Netscape Navigator, NCSA Mosaic, Lynx, and W3 are examples for browsers for the World-Wide Web. They act as clients to remote web servers.
(1996-05-31)

browser

n. A program specifically designed to help users view and navigate hypertext, on-line documentation, or a database. While this general sense has been present in jargon for a long time, the proliferation of browsers for the World Wide Web after 1992 has made it much more popular and provided a central or default meaning of the word previously lacking in hacker usage. Nowadays, if someone mentions using a `browser' without qualification, one may assume it is a Web browser.

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Browser

Brows"er\ (brouz"[~e]r), n. An animal that browses.