browser
See also: Browser
English
Etymology
Etymology tree
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈbɹaʊ.zə/
- (General American) IPA(key): /ˈbɹaʊ.zəɹ/
Audio (US): (file) - Rhymes: -aʊzə(ɹ)
- Hyphenation: brows‧er
Noun
browser (plural browsers)
- One who or which browses.
- Coordinate term: grazer
- 1988, R. Norman Owen-Smith, Megaherbivores: The Influence of Very Large Body Size on Ecology, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 14:
- Giraffe have a long, muscular tongue, which aids in gathering leaves into the mouth; and the dentition is typical of browsers.
- A person who examines goods for sale but purchases nothing.
- Antonym: nonbrowser
- 1976 December 18, David Holland, “Dear Santa...”, in Gay Community News, volume 4, number 25, page 11:
- While still in the mood for antique bartering, The Emerald City on the South End section of Dartmouth St. has expanded just in time for browsers and buyers. Allow some time here as it's a poke-and-find shop of 1800's pictures and prints, turn-of-the-century kitchen ware, and some very unusual furnishings and lamps.
- (Internet) Ellipsis of web browser.
- [1990 November 12, Tim Berners-Lee, Robert Cailliau, “WorldWideWeb: Proposal for a HyperText Project”, in World Wide Web Consortium (W3C)[1]:
- A program which provides access to the hypertext world we call a browser.]
- (computing, by extension) Any other type of information browser.
- 2011, Lester Madden, Professional Augmented Reality Browsers for Smartphones: Programming for junaio, Layar and Wikitude, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page 10:
- The real strengthof AR browsers is their discoverability. Today, browsers have most of the attention and it's amazing how many people have yet to experience a browser for themselves. Browsers are incredibly useful ways to discover information about places and objects around you.
Derived terms
- browser cache
- browser hijacking
- browserify
- browserish
- browserless
- browser narcotic
- cross-browser
- headless browser
- lockdown browser
- man-in-the-browser
- master browser
- mesobrowser
- microbrowser
- minibrowser
- nonbrowser
- potential browser
- web browser
Descendants
Descendants
- → Azerbaijani: brauzer
- → Belarusian: бра́ўзэр (bráwzer)
- → Bengali: ব্রাউজার (braujar)
- → Bulgarian: бра́узър (bráuzǎr)
- → Danish: browser
- → Dutch: browser
- → Estonian: brauser
- → Georgian: ბრაუზერი (brauzeri)
- → German: Browser
- → Hindi: ब्राउज़र (brāuzar)
- → Italian: browser
- → Japanese: ブラウザ (burauza)
- → Korean: 브라우저 (beuraujeo)
- → Kyrgyz: браузер (brauzer)
- → Portuguese: browser
- → Romanian: browser
- → Russian: бра́узер (bráuzer)
- → Scottish Gaelic: brabhsair
- → Sinhalese: බ්රව්සර (brawsara)
- → Spanish: browser
- → Tajik: браузер (brauzer)
- → Tatar: браузер (brawzer)
- → Thai: เบราว์เซอร์ (brao-sə̂ə)
- → Ukrainian: бра́узер (bráuzer)
- → Urdu: بَراؤُزَر (barāuzar), بْراؤُزَر (brāuzar)
- → Uzbek: brauzer
Translations
web browser — see web browser
Further reading
Anagrams
Danish
Etymology
Unadapted borrowing from English browser. First attested in 1993.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /bravsər/, [ˈbɹɑwsɐ]
Noun
browser c (singular definite browseren, plural indefinite browsere)
- (Internet) web browser
- Synonym: webbrowser
Inflection
| common gender |
singular | plural | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| indefinite | definite | indefinite | definite | |
| nominative | browser | browseren | browsere | browserne |
| genitive | browsers | browserens | browseres | browsernes |
Dutch
Etymology
Unadapted borrowing from English browser.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈbrɑu̯.zər/
Audio: (file) - Hyphenation: brow‧ser
Noun
browser m (plural browsers, no diminutive)
- (Internet) web browser
- Synonyms: webbrowser, internetbrowser
Related terms
Italian
Etymology
Unadapted borrowing from English browser.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈbraw.zer/
Noun
browser m (invariable)
Portuguese
Etymology
Unadapted borrowing from English browser.
Pronunciation
- (Brazil) IPA(key): /ˈbɾaw.zeʁ/ [ˈbɾaʊ̯.zeh]
- (São Paulo) IPA(key): /ˈbɾaw.zeɾ/ [ˈbɾaʊ̯.zeɾ]
- (Rio de Janeiro) IPA(key): /ˈbɾaw.zeʁ/ [ˈbɾaʊ̯.zeχ]
- (Caipira) IPA(key): /ˈbɾaw.zeɻ/ [ˈbɾaʊ̯.zeɻ]
Noun
browser m (plural browsers or browseres)
- (Internet) web browser
- Synonyms: navegador < navegador web
Further reading
- “browser”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
- “browser”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026
Spanish
Etymology
Unadapted borrowing from English browser.
Noun
browser m (plural browseres)
- (Internet) web browser
- Synonyms: navegador < navegador web
Usage notes
According to Royal Spanish Academy (RAE) prescriptions, unadapted foreign words should be written in italics in a text printed in roman type, and vice versa, and in quotation marks in a manuscript text or when italics are not available. In practice, this RAE prescription is not always followed.