BROWNING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Browning mean? 

• BROWNING (noun)
  The noun BROWNING has 4 senses:

1. United States inventor of firearms (especially automatic pistols and repeating rifles and a machine gun called the Peacemaker) (1855-1926)

2. English poet and husband of Elizabeth Barrett Browning noted for his dramatic monologues (1812-1889)

3. English poet best remembered for love sonnets written to her husband Robert Browning (1806-1861)

4. cooking to a brown crispiness over a fire or on a grill

  Familiarity information: BROWNING used as a noun is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BROWNING (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

United States inventor of firearms (especially automatic pistols and repeating rifles and a machine gun called the Peacemaker) (1855-1926)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Browning; John M. Browning; John Moses Browning

Instance hypernyms:

artificer; discoverer; inventor (someone who is the first to think of or make something)

Sense 2

Meaning:

English poet and husband of Elizabeth Barrett Browning noted for his dramatic monologues (1812-1889)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Browning; Robert Browning

Instance hypernyms:

poet (a writer of poems (the term is usually reserved for writers of good poetry))

Sense 3

Meaning:

English poet best remembered for love sonnets written to her husband Robert Browning (1806-1861)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Browning; Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Instance hypernyms:

poet (a writer of poems (the term is usually reserved for writers of good poetry))

Sense 4

Meaning:

Cooking to a brown crispiness over a fire or on a grill

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

browning; toasting

Context example:

proper toasting should brown both sides of a piece of bread

Hypernyms ("browning" is a kind of...):

cookery; cooking; preparation (the act of preparing something (as food) by the application of heat)

 Context examples 

Compounds such as rosiglitazone (Rosi) and prostaglandin E2 analog (PGE2) have been shown to have browning effects on white fat tissue—increasing metabolism and the growth of new blood vessels.

(Nanoparticles target, transform fat tissue, NIH)

But when I came to make the bed I found, between the blankets, dropped apparently as he had sunk off to sleep, a complete Browning, the Cambridge Edition.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

She knew her Browning, but it had never sunk into her that it was an awkward thing to play with souls.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Climate factors known to affect vegetation growth were also in line with the observed browning.

(NASA finds drought may take toll on Congo rainforest, NASA)

For example, the protein can restrict the uptake of glucose and the browning of fat, so that the body stores fat instead of burning it.

(Depression, Obesity, Chronic Pain Could be Treated by Targeting the Same Key Protein, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

A team designed nanoparticles to target browning agents to fat tissue.

(Nanoparticles target, transform fat tissue, NIH)

She read Browning aloud to him, and was often puzzled by the strange interpretations he gave to mooted passages.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

“I’m just reading Browning,” he confessed, “and it’s pretty tough. I haven’t got very far along, and as it is I’ve about lost my bearings.”

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

The decrease, sometimes referred to as "browning," suggests a slow adjustment to the long-term drying trend.

(NASA finds drought may take toll on Congo rainforest, NASA)

These findings show that the targeted Rosi nanoparticles reduced weight gain by browning fat tissue.

(Nanoparticles target, transform fat tissue, NIH)