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Browse Transitive or intransitive verb: To read or survey(data files), especially across a computer network; specifically, to do so on the World Wide Web.Noun: An instance of this.A further extension of the figurative use of the verb browse, originally meaning “the action of animals feeding on scanty vegetation(the implication being they have to search it out), but then extended to the action of looking through(say) a book.The world has had this sense in the computing context since at least the mid eighties; it is common to find buttons labeled browse on visually-oriented computer applications which enable the user to search for relevant files on the local system or across a network. The word took on a new sense and life with the advent of the World Wide Web in the early nineties. This interface to the INTERNET requires special computer programs to search out, translate, and display the tagged material in the files being downloaded. These programs were quickly dubbed browsers and in computer contexts browsing now frequently means using such a program to access the Web. The use of browsability, in application to software, has also been recorded.…問題なのは、この単語がOEDに載っていない新語だってことだ。これを探すのに苦労したぜー。