Browse vs Incurable - What's the difference?
browse | incurable |
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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Of an illness, condition, etc, that is unable to be cured; healless.
* Sir J. Stephen
As nouns the difference between browse and incurable
is that browse is young shoots and twigs while incurable is one who cannot be cured.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.As an adjective incurable is
of an illness, condition, etc, that is unable to be cured; healless.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
Adjective
(-)- They were labouring under a profound, and, as it might have seemed, an almost incurable ignorance.
