Browse vs Adjoining - What's the difference?
browse | adjoining |
To scan, to casually look through in order to find items of interest, especially without knowledge of what to look for beforehand.
To move about while sampling, such as with food or products on display.
(computing) To navigate through hyperlinked documents on a computer, usually with a browser.
(of an animal) To move about while eating parts of plants, especially plants other than pasture, such as shrubs or trees.
To feed on, as pasture; to pasture on; to graze.
* Tennyson
Young shoots and twigs.
* 1590 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , III.10:
* Dryden
Fodder for cattle and other animals.
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Being in contact at some point or line; joining to; contiguous; bordering: an adjoining room .
* {{quote-book, year=1902
, author = Robert B. Ross (ed.)
, title = History of the Knaggs family of Ohio and Michigan
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, passage= The location was described to be "on the lower side of the river, adjoining land owned by Whitmore Knaggs and on the upper side by lands not yet granted."}}
As verbs the difference between browse and adjoining
is that browse is to scan, to casually look through in order to find items of interest, especially without knowledge of what to look for beforehand while adjoining is .As a noun browse
is young shoots and twigs.As an adjective adjoining is
being in contact at some point or line; joining to; contiguous; bordering: an adjoining room .browse
English
Verb
(brows)- Fields browsed by deep-uddered kine.
Derived terms
* browser * browsableNoun
(en noun)- And with their horned feet the greene gras wore, / The whiles their Gotes upon the brouzes fedd
- Sheep, goats, and oxen, and the nobler steed, / On browse , and corn, and flowery meadows feed.
Texas Parks and Wildlife Service, 2007
- In the Panhandle Area, bison eat browse that includes mesquite and elm.
Colorado State Forest Service, 1997
- Also, when planting to provide a source of browse for wintering deer and elk, protect seedlings from browsing during the first several years; an electric fence enclosure can offer effective protection.