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Language Translation for : browser
| Spanish: | navegador, internauta, | German: | der Browser, | Japanese: | 情報を閲覧する人 |
browse
[brouz]
verb, browsed, brows⋅ing, noun
–verb (used with object)
–verb (used without object)
–noun
| 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. |
| 4. | to feed on or nibble at foliage, lichen, berries, etc. |
| 5. | 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. |
| 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
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
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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 |
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| 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. |
The American Heritage® Science Dictionary
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The American Heritage® New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy, Third Edition
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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)
The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing, © 1993-2007 Denis Howe
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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.
Jargon File 4.2.0
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Browser
Brows"er\ (brouz"[~e]r), n. An animal that browses.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.
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