Browse vs Drowse - What's the difference?

In lang=en terms the difference between browse and drowse

is that browse is to feed on, as pasture; to pasture on; to graze while drowse is to make heavy with sleepiness or imperfect sleep; to make dull or stupid.

As verbs the difference between browse and drowse

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 drowse is to be sleepy and inactive (also figurative).

As nouns the difference between browse and drowse

is that browse is young shoots and twigs while drowse is the state of being sleepy and inactive.

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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drowse

English

Noun

(-)

The state of being sleepy and inactive.

in a drowse

Verb

(drows)

To be sleepy and inactive (also figurative).

* 1902 , , Moon-Face :

Under the aching noonday glare, when the green things drooped and the birds withdrew to the depths of the forest, and all nature drowsed , his great "Ha! ha!" and "Ho! ho!" rose up to the sky and challenged the sun.

* 1973 July, Melville Bell Grosvenor, Homeward with Ulysses'', published in ''National Geographic , volume 144, number 1:

In August the cicadas chorused, and the dusty olive trees drowsed in the sun.

To nod off; to fall asleep.

To advance drowsily.

* 1873', , ''The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today'' (' 1915 republication), page 285:

the wary tadpole returned from exile, the bullfrog resumed his ancient song, the tranquil turtle sunned his back upon bank and log and drowsed his grateful life away as in the old sweet days of yore.

* 1966 , John Cunyus Hodges, William Congreve, the man: a biography from new sources , page 25:

Congreve held fast to the Greek poets, but otherwise seems to have drowsed his way through Trinity studies.

* 2002 , Marsha Ward, The Man from Shenandoah , page 55

Ida had kept him awake while he drowsed his way up the old King's Trace in eastern Missouri, feverish and weak.

* 2008 , Sarah Mayberry, Cruise Control'', published in ''Best of Makeovers Bundle , page 209:

They were led into a large, attractive room with twin massage beds, and welcomed by their masseurs—in Balinese tradition, he had a male masseur, Anna a female. He drowsed his way through the first half hour of the treatment,

To make heavy with sleepiness or imperfect sleep; to make dull or stupid.

(Milton)

Derived terms

* drowsy * drowsily

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