Browse vs Damage - What's the difference?
browse | damage |
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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Injury or harm; the condition or measure of something not being intact.
* Francis Bacon
(slang) Cost or expense.
To impair the soundness, goodness, or value of; to harm or cause destruction.
* Clarendon
As verbs the difference between browse and damage
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 damage is to impair the soundness, goodness, or value of; to harm or cause destruction.As nouns the difference between browse and damage
is that browse is young shoots and twigs while damage is injury or harm; the condition or measure of something not being intact.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.
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English
(wikipedia damage)Noun
- The storm did a lot of damage to the area.
- Great errors and absurdities many commit for want of a friend to tell them of them, to the great damage both of their fame and fortune.
- "What's the damage ?" he asked the waiter.
Verb
(damag)- Be careful not to damage any of the fragile items while unpacking them.
- He came up to the English admiral and gave him a broadside, with which he killed many of his men and damaged the ship.