1 to look at a lot of things in a shop/store rather than looking for one particular thing:
[V] You are welcome to come in and browse. * [VN] She browsed the shelves for something interesting to read.
2 ~ (through sth) to look through the pages of a book, newspaper, etc. without reading everything:
[V] I found the article while I was browsing through some old magazines. [also VN]
3 [V, VN] (computing) to look for information on a computer
4 [V] ~ (on sth) (of cows, goats, etc.) to eat leaves, etc. that are growing high up
browse noun [sing.]:
The gift shop is well worth a browse.
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
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This entry for browse is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Is browse a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, browse is tagged as verb.
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