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Definition of Browsing
1. Noun. Reading superficially or at random.
2. Noun. The act of feeding by continual nibbling.
Definition of Browsing
1. n. Browse; also, a place abounding with shrubs where animals may browse.
Definition of Browsing
1. Verb. (present participle of browse) ¹
2. Noun. A place abounding with shrubs where animals may browse. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Browsing
1. browse [v] - See also: browse
Lexicographical Neighbors of Browsing
Literary usage of Browsing
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Scholarly Work in the Humanities and the Evolving Information Environment by William S. Brockman (2001)
"browsing Across Collections and Tools Related to collections and searching is
scholars' fondness for browsing as a form of information gathering and ..."
2. Overview of the Third Text Retrieval Conference (Trec-3) edited by D. K. Harmon (1995)
"The results that we obtained provide a baseline for what can be done when a
browsing style of query formulation is combined with simple text retrieval ..."
3. Amongst the Shans by Archibald Ross Colquhoun, Holt Samuel Hallett, Terrien de Lacouperie (1885)
"CHAPTER X. Buddhists browsing in the missionary ... They had merely joined them
for the sake of browsing, for some little temporary advantage, ..."
4. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1829)
"... far far beyond Are browsing or at rest—the real woods, The real mountains,
where the living flocks Where flit the living birds from shade to shade, ..."
5. The Merchants' Magazine and Commercial Review by Isaac Smith Homans, William Buck Dana (1853)
"... sufficient, and unfailing stream will flow into the city from the healthy lac-
teals of " the cattle upon a thousand hills," browsing in happy ignorance ..."
6. The Æneid of Virgil by Virgil (1910)
"'Mid such good parley to the house they came Of King Evander, unadorned and plain,
Whence herds of browsing cattle could be seen Ranging the Forum, ..."
7. An Excursion to California Over the Prairie, Rocky Mountains, and Great by William Kelly (1851)
"Change of Weather—Quantities of Wild Geese—Wild Duck—Their Variety- Anecdote
illustrative—The Country and its Adaptation for Settlement—Effects of browsing ..."
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