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Browse vs Chamber - What's the difference?

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As nouns the difference between browse and chamber

is that browse is young shoots and twigs while chamber is the luxembourgish parliament (officially known by the french name of “chambre des ”).

As a verb browse

is to scan, to casually look through in order to find items of interest, especially without knowledge of what to look for beforehand.

browse

English

Verb

(brows)
  • 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
    • Fields browsed by deep-uddered kine.

    Derived terms

    * browser * browsable

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Young shoots and twigs.
  • * 1590 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , III.10:
    • And with their horned feet the greene gras wore, / The whiles their Gotes upon the brouzes fedd
  • * Dryden
    • Sheep, goats, and oxen, and the nobler steed, / On browse , and corn, and flowery meadows feed.
  • Fodder for cattle and other animals.
  • * 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.

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    chamber

    English

    (wikipedia chamber)

    Alternative forms

    * chambre (obsolete)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A room, especially one used primarily for sleeping; bedroom, sleeping room.
  • * 1845, ,
    • Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary,
    Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore,
    While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping,
    As of some one gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door.
  • An enclosed space.
    • the chamber''' of a canal lock; the '''chamber''' of a furnace; the '''chamber of the eye
    A ''test chamber'' is typically a closable case where devices under test are placed.
  • (firearms) The portion of the weapon that holds the ammunition round immediately prior to (and during initiation of) its discharge; each of the cylindrical compartments of a revolver that can hold a bullet
    • Dianne loaded a cartridge into the chamber of the rifle, then prepared to take aim at the target.
  • One of the legislative bodies in a government where multiple such bodies exist, or a single such body in comparison to others.
    • The resolution, which speedily passed the Senate, was unable to gain a majority in the lower chamber .
  • A law office in a building housing several such offices, typically the office of a barrister in the United Kingdom or in the imagination of an African scammer.
  • (dated, in the plural) Apartments in a lodging house.
  • * Thackeray
    • a bachelor's life in chambers
  • (obsolete) A chamber pot.
  • (historical) A short piece of ordnance or cannon which stood on its breech without any carriage, formerly used chiefly for celebrations and theatrical cannonades.

    • Derived terms

    * torture chamber

    Related terms

    * bubble chamber * chamberlain * chambermaid * chamber music * chamber of commerce * chamber pot * cloud chamber * in chambers * Wilson chamber

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To enclose in a room.
    • She had chambered herself in her room, and wouldn't come out.
  • To reside in or occupy a chamber or chambers.
  • * 1893 , Publications of the Scottish History Society (volume 14, page 64)
    • I chambered with Alexander Preston.
  • To place in a chamber, as a round of ammunition.
    • The hunter fired at the geese and missed, then shrugged his shoulders and chambered another cartridge.
  • To create or modify a gun to be a specific caliber.
    • The rifle was originally chambered for 9MM, but had since been modified for a larger, wildcat caliber.
  • In martial arts, to prepare an offensive, defensive, or counteroffensive action by drawing a limb or weapon to a position where it may be charged with kinetic energy.
    • Bob chambered his fist for a blow, but Sheila struck first.
  • (obsolete) To be lascivious.

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