BROWSER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does browser mean? 

• BROWSER (noun)
  The noun BROWSER has 2 senses:

1. a viewer who looks around casually without seeking anything in particular

2. a program used to view HTML documents

  Familiarity information: BROWSER used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BROWSER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A viewer who looks around casually without seeking anything in particular

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

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

looker; spectator; viewer; watcher; witness (a close observer; someone who looks at something (such as an exhibition of some kind))

Derivation:

browse (look around casually and randomly, without seeking anything in particular)

browse (shop around; not necessarily buying)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A program used to view HTML documents

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

browser; web browser

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

application; application program; applications programme (a program that gives a computer instructions that provide the user with tools to accomplish a task)

Instance hyponyms:

Explorer; IE; Internet Explorer (a commercial browser)

Konqueror (a freeware browser for Linux)

lynx (a text browser)

Mosaic (a freeware browser)

Netscape; Opera (a commercial browser)

Derivation:

browse (look around casually and randomly, without seeking anything in particular)

 Context examples 

Members of this family are strict herbivores and can be classified as either browsers or grazers depending on how they feed.

(Equidae, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)

Users' browsers and other clients sent requests to Dyn to resolve the respective web sites' domain names to an IP, but did not get a reply within the time required.

(Distributed malware attacks Dyn DNS, takes down websites in US, Wikinews)