(n.) The tender branches or twigs of trees and shrubs, fit for the food of cattle and other animals; green food.
(n.) To eat or nibble off, as the tender branches of trees, shrubs, etc.; -- said of cattle, sheep, deer, and some other animals.
(n.) To feed on, as pasture; to pasture on; to graze.
(v. i.) To feed on the tender branches or shoots of shrubs or trees, as do cattle, sheep, and deer.
(v. i.) To pasture; to feed; to nibble.
Example Sentences:
(1) The latest annual report from the Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA) has revealed that there was 582,727 requests for phone, web browsing and location data – commonly known as “metadata” – that can reveal detailed information about a person’s personal lives and associations.
(2) They spend more time playing games (14 minutes), listening to music (16 minutes), using social media (17 minutes) and browsing online (25 minutes).
(3) There is serious fun to be had browsing its huge bottled beer menu, which runs the gamut of new wave UK breweries, including Kernel, Wild Beer, Hardknott, Camden, and their US inspirations, such as Left Hand and Magic Hat.
(4) Google: £14.4m In August, the search engine's parent company agreed to pay the US Federal Trade Commission $22.5m after admitting it monitored the browsing activity of Safari users who had selected the "do not track" privacy setting.
(5) Only Orange's pay monthly deals come with Wi-Fi access and they only include a paltry 750MB of Wi-Fi browsing – again through BT Openzone's network of hotspots.
(6) Delivered straight to your device Enjoy the full range of Guardian content, beautifully designed for Windows 10 phones, tablets, and desktops Read offline, wherever you are Browse award-winning audio, video and interactive content, as well as full-screen galleries Ask Cortan to open the Guardian app directly to your favourite section or topic Download now from the Windows store Download now -> Windows app FAQs
(7) One tool prepares publication-quality pictorial representations of alignments, while another facilitates interactive browsing of pairwise alignment data.
(8) Saudi Arabia's Communications and Information Technology Commission (CITC) said BlackBerry manufacturer Research In Motion (RIM) had successfully completed "part of the regulatory requirements" over the weekend, allowing a temporary reprieve to the ongoing threat of a blockage to services including email and web browsing on the company's handsets.
(9) No relation to Ann Widdecombe 1 Advent calendar Receiving it on Christmas Day makes me 100% confident I won't be facing the disappointment of finishing it too early 2 Nog I don't like eggs but I love a bit of eggnog, think how good nog would be without the eggs holding it back 3 WH Smith's voucher Keep in my wallet for guilt free hours of magazine browsing all year round 4 Quality Street Always have a present you can instantly re-wrap and give to someone else 5 Bath bomb Take cover!
(10) President Donald Trump was expected to sign legislation on Wednesday allowing internet service providers to sell the browsing habits of their customers.
(11) By far the most popular activity during the 119 minutes a day given over to the small screen is web browsing, which accounts for 24 minutes.
(12) The online auction service has been redesigned with a focus on bigger images and a touchscreen interface, making it the perfect way to browse from the sofa.
(13) Technical copies When internet users browse the web, their computer makes a copy of the webpage they are visiting in order to display it on the screen.
(14) Facebook Twitter Pinterest The Museum of the World microsite enables users to browse exhibits according to age and area of origin.
(15) In a submission in advance of the hearing, the commissioner, Christopher Graham, said there are serious issues to be tried about whether the data generated by web browsing is personal and whether personal damage can include non-monetary harm.
(16) I saw a large group of middle-aged people browsing sheets of paper pinned to camellia bushes spouting vivid pink blooms.
(17) Oh, the stories were just better with that lot – like the time Harris was browsing some old photos, saw himself standing beside a Rolls-Royce, and started ringing round his ex-wives to find out if he had ever owned such a car.
(18) Google is facing a preliminary anti-monopoly probe by the European Commission into its dominant position in online browsing and digital advertising following allegations that it demotes competing websites to the lower echelons of customers' search results.
(19) Jorn Lyssegen, chief executive of Meltwater, said he was "very pleased that the supreme court over-ruled the previous rulings by the court of appeals and the high court that the simple act of browsing the internet could be copyright infringement".
(20) And if you're looking for iOS apps, browse the archives of Best iPhone and iPad apps roundups instead.
Graze
Definition:
(v. t.) To feed or supply (cattle, sheep, etc.) with grass; to furnish pasture for.
(v. t.) To feed on; to eat (growing herbage); to eat grass from (a pasture); to browse.
(v. t.) To tend (cattle, etc.) while grazing.
(v. t.) To rub or touch lightly the surface of (a thing) in passing; as, the bullet grazed the wall.
(v. i.) To eat grass; to feed on growing herbage; as, cattle graze on the meadows.
(v. i.) To yield grass for grazing.
(v. i.) To touch something lightly in passing.
(n.) The act of grazing; the cropping of grass.
(n.) A light touch; a slight scratch.
Example Sentences:
(1) Voluntary intake and nutritive value of diets selected by goats grazing a shrubland at Marin county, N.L., Mexico were determined.
(2) the does had been grazing on lucerne from the time of mating and received a free-choice lick, which included iodine.
(3) Examination of cattle faeces demonstrated that six-month-old calves excreted moderate numbers of N battus eggs in June and July, thus contaminating next season's sheep grazing.
(4) Before 1948, the Bedouin tribes lived and grazed their animals on much of the Negev, claiming ancestral rights to the land.
(5) The relative resistance to different cattle ticks of Gudali and Wakwa cattle with different levels of Brahman breeding, grazed on natural pastures in the subhumid tropics of Wakwa, Cameroon, was assessed using pasture tick infestations.
(6) Three age groups were used: stall fed yearlings, grazing heifers and lactating cows.
(7) Serum cholesterol concentrations were lower in steers grazing on G1-307 than in steers grazing on G1-306 or cultivars.
(8) Diagnostic methods which reveal only the presence or absence of Ostertagia in grazing animals are of little importance since all will acquire some degree of infection when grazed in the temperate regions of the world.
(9) High titres of antibodies to rinderpest virus were demonstrated in sera collected from sheep and goats that were grazing together with the affected cattle herds; there was, however, no evidence of clinical disease in these small ruminants and wildlife species in the affected area.
(10) However, both groups of bulls exhibited similar diurnal grazing patterns with two major daily grazing periods; the first (0400 to 1300) peaked early in the morning (0600) and the second (1700 to 2200) occurred in late afternoon and evening.
(11) In grass tetany, the animals generally are grazing cool-season forages in which Mg concentration or bioavailability of plant Mg is low.
(12) Currently, the lucrative trade in logging, cattle grazing and palm oil, means tropical forests are worth substantially more dead than alive to developing countries.
(13) Eighty-five American wigeon (Anas americana) died after grazing on one treated fairway on the day of application following irrigation.
(14) It appeared that H. contortus could not have more than two generations in ewes or lambs in a single grazing season.
(15) The changes in nematode cholinesterase (ChE) activities were examined in relation to the development of resistance in (1) a flock of young grazing sheep, (2) grazing and penned sheep treated with dexamethasone and (3) penned sheep receiving a single mixed infection.
(16) Previously infected weaners underwent spontaneous cure within 6 weeks to 6 months of starting to graze safe pastures, Teladorsagia being reduced by 77 to 98%, Nematodirus by 9 to 94% and Trichostrongylus by 34 to 40%.
(17) The foals and yearlings were allowed to graze on open pasture throughout the experiment to provide a natural source for bot and helminth infections.
(18) One of the major differences between the two systems is that PMC cows have access to grazing along the rivers.
(19) Three groups of five, three-and-a-half to four-month-old lambs were put to graze on three plots contaminated by Trichostrongylus colubriformis.
(20) Grazing sheep in some situations develop visible cysts earlier, around one year of age, hence it is considered that the infections of experimental sheep in SPF conditions may not reflect all the circumstances leading to natural infection.