Browse vs Enable - What's the difference?
browse | enable |
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 give strength or ability to; to make firm and strong.
* 1611 , King James Bible , "1 Tim. i. 12"
To make able (to do, or to be, something); to confer sufficient power upon; to furnish with means, opportunities, and the like; to render competent for; to empower; to endow.
* 1711 , October 13, (Joseph Addison), (The Spectator) , number 195
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As verbs the difference between browse and enable
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 enable is to give strength or ability to; to make firm and strong.As a noun browse
is young shoots and twigs.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
(enabling) (enabl)- Who hath enabled me.
- Temperance gives Nature her full play, and enables her to exert herself in all her force and vigor.
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