BROWSING

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

IPA (US):

 Dictionary entry overview: What does browsing mean? 

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

1. reading superficially or at random

2. the act of feeding by continual nibbling

  Familiarity information: BROWSING used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BROWSING (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Reading superficially or at random

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

browse; browsing

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

reading (the cognitive process of understanding a written linguistic message)

Sense 2

Meaning:

The act of feeding by continual nibbling

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

browse; browsing

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

eating; feeding (the act of consuming food)

 Context examples 

You may have been browsing new apartments or houses with the plan to move at some point, but with aspects like I just described, things likely went (or still will) go haywire.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

A wireless handheld device from Research In Motion (RIM) that supports e-mail, mobile telephone, text messaging, web browsing and other wireless information services.

(BlackBerry, NCI Thesaurus)

In addition to documenting a driver’s dialing, texting, browsing or reaching for a phone, researchers assessed numerous secondary tasks, including dancing to music, attending to personal hygiene, and eating or drinking.

(Reaching for objects while driving may raise teen crash risk nearly sevenfold, National Institutes of Health)

It was as if he had studied at the university himself, instead of being ill-equipped from browsing at haphazard through the books in the library.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Other aspects of wireless communication use, such as sending text messages, playing games or browsing the Internet cause only marginal RF-EMF exposure to the brain and were not associated with the development of memory performance.

(Cell Phone Radiation Harmful for Memory, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

Their study also found that manually dialing, texting or browsing the web on a phone while driving doubled a teen’s crash risk.

(Reaching for objects while driving may raise teen crash risk nearly sevenfold, National Institutes of Health)

That weekend would be ideal for browsing spaces—you are likely to fall in love with one you see.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)