browsern.

Brit.

/ˈbraʊzə/, U.S.

/ˈbraʊzər/

Forms: 1500s brouser, 1500s– browser, 1600s browzer.

Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: browse n.¹, -er suffix¹; browse v., -er suffix¹.

Etymology: Partly < browse n.¹ + -er suffix¹, and partly < browse v. + -er suffix¹.

†1. A person who cuts the leaves and twigs of trees to use as food for animals in winter. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > gamekeeping > [noun] > gamekeeper

warrener1297

ranger1327

walker1482

underkeeper1502

browser1538

tineman1577

waterkeeper1590

gamekeeper1645

rider1647

preserver1749

garde champêtre1814

field ranger1835

warden1835

velveteens1857

keeper1863

game warden1876

pisteur1936

1538 T. Elyot Dict. Frondator, oris, a brouser, a wodlopper.

1550 in E. W. Harcourt Papers (1876) I. 21 Att a survey taken the tenth of Aprill, in the fourth yeare of Edward the Sixth..the jury did then present (amongst other things) that..the Lords of Stanton Harcourt aforesaid, have used and ought to find, four Browsers in Woodstocke Parke in winter time when any snow shall happen to fall, and tarrye, lye, and abide be the space of two days, and so to find the said Browsers there browsing soe long as the snow doth lye, every Browser to have to his lodging every night one Billett of wood the length of his ax-helve.

2. An animal which feeds on the young shoots, leaves, and twigs of shrubs and trees; a browsing animal. Cf. browse v. 1.

ΘΚΠ

the world > animals > by eating habits > [noun] > herbivore > that browses

browser1686

1686 N. Tate tr. G. Fracastoro Syphilis 21 He..Disdains the wanton Browzers of the Rock, Disdains the lowing Herd and bleating Flock.

1797 Sporting Mag. Mar. 348/2 He glar'd at the browser as stern as old nick.

1845 E. Miall in Nonconformist 5 312 The stupidest of the browsers of the field.

1870 J. Yeats Nat. Hist. Commerce 122 We fell a forest, and the timid browsers lose their shelter and food.

1947 J. Stevenson-Hamilton Wild Life S. Afr. i. 15 Browsing animals, such as kudu, bushbuck, and duiker, and partial browsers like impala, remain static to a much great degree than the grazers.

1968 I. W. Cornwall Prehistoric Animals & their Hunters viii. 163 The black rhinoceros..is a browser, with a pointed upper lip ending in a sort of mobile ‘finger’.

2014 N.Y. Times (Nexis) 23 Mar. 11 Wild horses can have destructive grazing behavior, and indigenous grazers and browsers (deer, for example) presumably have to compete with them for land.

3. A person who browses books, esp. in a bookshop or library; (more generally) a person who surveys something, esp. goods for sale, in a casual or leisurely manner. Cf. browse v. 4.Originally a use of sense 2 in a figurative context.

ΘΚΠ

society > communication > reading > reader > [noun] > skimmer or browser

skimmer1751

dipper1824

skipper1824

browser1863

skip-reader1973

1863 ‘G. Eliot’ Romola I. vii. 126 Friends who were ready to praise his writings..amiable browsers in the Medicean park along with himself.

1915 House Beautiful 38 p. xliii/1 The time-worn picture of a book browser standing for hours as he goes over the volumes in search of the book he wants.

1937 Atlantic Apr. 502/1 But the perfect browser must have one possession..a ladder; a library ladder.

1955 N.Y. Times 5 May 32/3 Conrad Library, where often the casual browser has stayed to become a serious reader.

1994 Face Sept. 60/1 A small side room adjoins the main sales space and it had always been difficult to entice browsers into this rear-most area.

2009 Independent 24 Nov. 29/1 I went into my local bookshop, a characterful place run with bookish enthusiasm and offering just what a browser wants.

4. Computing. A program used to locate, access, and display documents or files stored on a computer system, network, etc.; esp. (in later use) = web browser n. at web n. Compounds 4b. Also: a program used to view and edit computer code.

ΘΚΠ

society > computing and information technology > data > database > [noun] > access or retrieval > searching > means of

search engine1978

browser1980

navigator1988

crawler1994

1969 J. H. Williams BROWSER: Automatic Indexing On-line Retrieval Syst. 2 An alternative to the Boolean searching strategy has been developed, programmed and tested. This system, called BROWSER (BRowsing On-Line With SElective Retrieval), allows the searcher to express a query in his own words, in an unrestricted form.]

1980 I. P. Goldstein & D. G. Bobrow Layered Approach to Software Design 19 The PIE interface is modelled on the standard Smalltalk interface for examining and altering code. The Smalltalk interface..is called a browser. It is a display window built from six sub-windows called panes.

1990 T. Berners-Lee & R. Calliau WorldWideWeb: Proposal for HyperText Project (Electronic text) A browser is a native application program running on the client machine... It performs the display of a hypertext node using the client hardware & software environment.

1991 Byte (Nexis) Nov. 96 Enhancements to the Think Class Library include dialog boxes, multiple-windows documents... Version 5.0 also includes a class browser.

1994 Guardian 3 Nov. (OnLine section) 215/1 A browser provides a graphical front end that enables users to mouse-click their way around the Web.

2008 ‘R. Keeland’ tr. S. Larsson Girl with Dragon Tattoo xiv. 243 Salander closed her browser and shut down her PowerBook.

Compounds

C1. Computing. General attributive (in sense 4).

ΚΠ

1985 Human–computer Interaction: 1st Internat. Conf. 387/2 Selecting it via cursor movement in the BROWSER window for ‘zooming’.

1995 InfoWorld 16 Oct. 3/3 The company [sc. Netscape] came under heavy criticism recently when its browser security was breached by hackers.

1997 PC Mag. Aug. 318/2 Browser updates sometimes cause problems with plug-in compatibility.

2003 C. Simmons Microsoft Office FrontPage 2003 Bible v. 159 The only real test of Browser compatibility for your Web pages is to view them with the latest versions of Navigator and IE.

2011 Capital (Annapolis, Maryland) 25 Jan. b2 Google Chrome users can now download a browser plug-in that blocks advertisers.

2015 C. J. Johnston My Android Tablet v. 173 You can open multiple browser tabs each with their own websites loaded.

C2.

browser-based adj. Computing (originally) designating software or an application taking the form of a browser (now rare); (in later use) designating software, an application, or service which is accessed by means of an internet browser.

ΚΠ

1994 Proc IEEE Symp. Visual Lang. 288/2 Browser-based interfaces get in the way of program slicing rather than expedite it.

2006 InfoWorld 27 Nov. 23/3 A browser-based e-mail system, such as Google's Gmail, won't notice a new letter until it initiates a check or you push the refresh button.

2012 Economist 1 Dec. 77/2 A typical Wii game costs $50, but many mobile or browser-based games are either free to play or cost a few dollars.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2016; most recently modified version published online December 2021).

单词	browser
释义	browsern. Brit. /ˈbraʊzə/, U.S. /ˈbraʊzər/ Forms: 1500s brouser, 1500s– browser, 1600s browzer. Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: browse n.¹, -er suffix¹; browse v., -er suffix¹. Etymology: Partly < browse n.¹ + -er suffix¹, and partly < browse v. + -er suffix¹. †1. A person who cuts the leaves and twigs of trees to use as food for animals in winter. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > gamekeeping > [noun] > gamekeeper warrener1297 ranger1327 walker1482 underkeeper1502 browser1538 tineman1577 waterkeeper1590 gamekeeper1645 rider1647 preserver1749 garde champêtre1814 field ranger1835 warden1835 velveteens1857 keeper1863 game warden1876 pisteur1936 1538 T. Elyot Dict. Frondator, oris, a brouser, a wodlopper. 1550 in E. W. Harcourt Papers (1876) I. 21 Att a survey taken the tenth of Aprill, in the fourth yeare of Edward the Sixth..the jury did then present (amongst other things) that..the Lords of Stanton Harcourt aforesaid, have used and ought to find, four Browsers in Woodstocke Parke in winter time when any snow shall happen to fall, and tarrye, lye, and abide be the space of two days, and so to find the said Browsers there browsing soe long as the snow doth lye, every Browser to have to his lodging every night one Billett of wood the length of his ax-helve. 2. An animal which feeds on the young shoots, leaves, and twigs of shrubs and trees; a browsing animal. Cf. browse v. 1. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > by eating habits > [noun] > herbivore > that browses browser1686 1686 N. Tate tr. G. Fracastoro Syphilis 21 He..Disdains the wanton Browzers of the Rock, Disdains the lowing Herd and bleating Flock. 1797 Sporting Mag. Mar. 348/2 He glar'd at the browser as stern as old nick. 1845 E. Miall in Nonconformist 5 312 The stupidest of the browsers of the field. 1870 J. Yeats Nat. Hist. Commerce 122 We fell a forest, and the timid browsers lose their shelter and food. 1947 J. Stevenson-Hamilton Wild Life S. Afr. i. 15 Browsing animals, such as kudu, bushbuck, and duiker, and partial browsers like impala, remain static to a much great degree than the grazers. 1968 I. W. Cornwall Prehistoric Animals & their Hunters viii. 163 The black rhinoceros..is a browser, with a pointed upper lip ending in a sort of mobile ‘finger’. 2014 N.Y. Times (Nexis) 23 Mar. 11 Wild horses can have destructive grazing behavior, and indigenous grazers and browsers (deer, for example) presumably have to compete with them for land. 3. A person who browses books, esp. in a bookshop or library; (more generally) a person who surveys something, esp. goods for sale, in a casual or leisurely manner. Cf. browse v. 4.Originally a use of sense 2 in a figurative context. ΘΚΠ society > communication > reading > reader > [noun] > skimmer or browser skimmer1751 dipper1824 skipper1824 browser1863 skip-reader1973 1863 ‘G. Eliot’ Romola I. vii. 126 Friends who were ready to praise his writings..amiable browsers in the Medicean park along with himself. 1915 House Beautiful 38 p. xliii/1 The time-worn picture of a book browser standing for hours as he goes over the volumes in search of the book he wants. 1937 Atlantic Apr. 502/1 But the perfect browser must have one possession..a ladder; a library ladder. 1955 N.Y. Times 5 May 32/3 Conrad Library, where often the casual browser has stayed to become a serious reader. 1994 Face Sept. 60/1 A small side room adjoins the main sales space and it had always been difficult to entice browsers into this rear-most area. 2009 Independent 24 Nov. 29/1 I went into my local bookshop, a characterful place run with bookish enthusiasm and offering just what a browser wants. 4. Computing. A program used to locate, access, and display documents or files stored on a computer system, network, etc.; esp. (in later use) = web browser n. at web n. Compounds 4b. Also: a program used to view and edit computer code. ΘΚΠ society > computing and information technology > data > database > [noun] > access or retrieval > searching > means of search engine1978 browser1980 navigator1988 crawler1994 1969 J. H. Williams BROWSER: Automatic Indexing On-line Retrieval Syst. 2 An alternative to the Boolean searching strategy has been developed, programmed and tested. This system, called BROWSER (BRowsing On-Line With SElective Retrieval), allows the searcher to express a query in his own words, in an unrestricted form.] 1980 I. P. Goldstein & D. G. Bobrow Layered Approach to Software Design 19 The PIE interface is modelled on the standard Smalltalk interface for examining and altering code. The Smalltalk interface..is called a browser. It is a display window built from six sub-windows called panes. 1990 T. Berners-Lee & R. Calliau WorldWideWeb: Proposal for HyperText Project (Electronic text) A browser is a native application program running on the client machine... It performs the display of a hypertext node using the client hardware & software environment. 1991 Byte (Nexis) Nov. 96 Enhancements to the Think Class Library include dialog boxes, multiple-windows documents... Version 5.0 also includes a class browser. 1994 Guardian 3 Nov. (OnLine section) 215/1 A browser provides a graphical front end that enables users to mouse-click their way around the Web. 2008 ‘R. Keeland’ tr. S. Larsson Girl with Dragon Tattoo xiv. 243 Salander closed her browser and shut down her PowerBook. Compounds C1. Computing. General attributive (in sense 4). ΚΠ 1985 Human–computer Interaction: 1st Internat. Conf. 387/2 Selecting it via cursor movement in the BROWSER window for ‘zooming’. 1995 InfoWorld 16 Oct. 3/3 The company [sc. Netscape] came under heavy criticism recently when its browser security was breached by hackers. 1997 PC Mag. Aug. 318/2 Browser updates sometimes cause problems with plug-in compatibility. 2003 C. Simmons Microsoft Office FrontPage 2003 Bible v. 159 The only real test of Browser compatibility for your Web pages is to view them with the latest versions of Navigator and IE. 2011 Capital (Annapolis, Maryland) 25 Jan. b2 Google Chrome users can now download a browser plug-in that blocks advertisers. 2015 C. J. Johnston My Android Tablet v. 173 You can open multiple browser tabs each with their own websites loaded. C2. browser-based adj. Computing (originally) designating software or an application taking the form of a browser (now rare); (in later use) designating software, an application, or service which is accessed by means of an internet browser. ΚΠ 1994 Proc IEEE Symp. Visual Lang. 288/2 Browser-based interfaces get in the way of program slicing rather than expedite it. 2006 InfoWorld 27 Nov. 23/3 A browser-based e-mail system, such as Google's Gmail, won't notice a new letter until it initiates a check or you push the refresh button. 2012 Economist 1 Dec. 77/2 A typical Wii game costs $50, but many mobile or browser-based games are either free to play or cost a few dollars. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2016; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1538
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