Browse vs Overlook - What's the difference?
browse | overlook |
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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To look down upon from a place that is over or above; to look over or view from a higher position; to rise above, so as to command a view of
Hence: To supervise; to watch over; sometimes, to observe secretly
To inspect; to examine; to look over carefully or repeatedly.
To look upon with an evil eye; to bewitch by looking upon; to fascinate.
To fail to notice; to look over and beyond (anything) without seeing it; to miss or omit in looking.
To pretend not to have noticed, especially a mistake; to pass over without censure or punishment.
As verbs the difference between browse and overlook
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 overlook is to look down upon from a place that is over or above; to look over or view from a higher position; to rise above, so as to command a view of.As nouns the difference between browse and overlook
is that browse is young shoots and twigs while overlook is a vista or point that gives a beautiful view.browse
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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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(Webster 1913)Verb
(en verb)- to overlook a valley from a hill
- to overlook a gang of laborers; to overlook one who is writing a letter