Late vs Browse - What's the difference?

As nouns the difference between late and browse

is that late is (kind of) hatchet, axe, chopper while browse is young shoots and twigs.

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.

late

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Adjective

(er)

Near the end of a period of time.

Specifically, near the end of the day.

(usually, not used comparatively) Associated with the end of a period.

Not arriving until after an expected time.

Not having had an expected menstrual period.

(deceased)(not comparable, euphemistic) Deceased, dead:

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Existing or holding some position not long ago, but not now; departed, or gone out of office.

Recent — relative to the noun it modifies.

* 1914 , (Robert Frost), (North of Boston) , "A Hundred Collars":

Lancaster bore him — such a little town, / Such a great man. It doesn't see him often / Of late years, though he keeps the old homestead / And sends the children down there with their mother

Usage notes

* (deceased) (term) in this sense is unusual among English adjectives in that it qualifies named individuals (in phrases like (term)) without creating a contrast with another Mary who is not late. Contrast (hungry): a phrase like (term) is usually only used if another Mary is under discussion who is not hungry.

Noun

(en noun)

(informal) A shift (scheduled work period) that takes place late in the day or at night.

* 2007 , Paul W Browning, The Good Guys Wear Blue

At about 11 pm one night in Corporation Street my watch were on van patrol and Yellow Watch were on lates as usual.

Adverb

(er)

After a deadline has passed, past a designated time.

We drove as fast as we could, but we still arrived late .

formerly, especially in the context of service in a military unit.

:Colonel Easterwood, late of the 34th Carbines, was a guest at the dinner party.

Derived terms

* a day late and a dollar short * as of late * better late than never * * late bloomer * latecomer * late in the day * late in the game * lately * late night * later * sooner or later

References

* 2009 April 3, , "Re: Has 'late' split up into a pair of homonyms?", message-ID <bdb13686-a6e4-43cd-8445-efe353365394@l13g2000vba.googlegroups.com>, alt.usage.english'' and ''sci.lang , Usenet.

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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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