Browse vs Sloppy - What's the difference?
browse | sloppy |
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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Very wet; covered in or composed of slop.
Messy; not neat, elegant, or careful.
Imprecise or loose.
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 a noun browse
is young shoots and twigs.As an adjective sloppy is
very wet; covered in or composed of slop.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
(er)- The dog tracked sloppy mud through the kitchen!
- The carpenter did a sloppy job of building the staircase.
- A sloppy''' measurement''; ''a '''sloppy fit!
