Browse vs Nibble - What's the difference?
browse | nibble | Synonyms |
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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A small, quick bite taken with the front teeth.
(in the plural, nibbles) Small snacks such as crisps/potato chips or nuts, often eaten to accompany drinks.
To eat with small, quick bites.
* 2 November 2014 , Alex James in (The Guardian),
*:Giant parrots nibbled seed from the children's fingertips and my sister peeled a couple of satsumas for the lemurs.
* 1911 , (Rudyard Kipling), Big Steamers
*:"For the bread that you eat and the biscuits you nibble ,
*:The sweets that you suck and the joints that you carve,
*:They are brought to you daily by all us Big Steamers--
*:And if anyone hinders our coming you'll starve!"
To bite lightly.
To consume gradually.
* 11 May 2011 , Ann Carrns in The (New York Times),
*:A report out this week from the National Consumer Law Center lays out a host of ways in which banks nibble away at jobless benefits with fees the center called “junk.”
(computing) A unit of memory equal to half a byte, or four bits.http://foldoc.org/nibble
* 1993 , Richard E. Haskell, Introduction to computer engineering (page 287)
Browse is a synonym of nibble.
In computing|lang=en terms the difference between browse and nibble
is that browse is (computing) to navigate through hyperlinked documents on a computer, usually with a browser while nibble is (computing) a unit of memory equal to half a byte, or four bitshttp://foldocorg/nibble.In lang=en terms the difference between browse and nibble
is that browse is to feed on, as pasture; to pasture on; to graze while nibble is to bite lightly.As verbs the difference between browse and nibble
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 nibble is to eat with small, quick bites.As nouns the difference between browse and nibble
is that browse is young shoots and twigs while nibble is a small, quick bite taken with the front teeth or nibble can be (computing) a unit of memory equal to half a byte, or four bitshttp://foldocorg/nibble.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.
External links
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English
Etymology 1
Perhaps from (etyl) .Noun
(en noun)Derived terms
* nibblyVerb
(nibbl)- The rabbit nibbled the lettuce.
The day I came face-to-face with a tiger
- He nibbled at my neck and made me shiver.
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Etymology 2
From nibble', punning on the homophony of '''byte''' and ' biteAlternative forms
* nybbleNoun
(en noun)- That is, the lower nibble (the 4 bits 1010 = A) has been masked to zero.