What's the difference between browse and look?

Browse


Definition:

  • (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.

Look


Definition:

  • (v. i.) To direct the eyes for the purpose of seeing something; to direct the eyes toward an object; to observe with the eyes while keeping them directed; -- with various prepositions, often in a special or figurative sense. See Phrases below.
  • (v. i.) To direct the attention (to something); to consider; to examine; as, to look at an action.
  • (v. i.) To seem; to appear; to have a particular appearance; as, the patient looks better; the clouds look rainy.
  • (v. i.) To have a particular direction or situation; to face; to front.
  • (v. i.) In the imperative: see; behold; take notice; take care; observe; -- used to call attention.
  • (v. i.) To show one's self in looking, as by leaning out of a window; as, look out of the window while I speak to you. Sometimes used figuratively.
  • (v. i.) To await the appearance of anything; to expect; to anticipate.
  • (v. t.) To look at; to turn the eyes toward.
  • (v. t.) To seek; to search for.
  • (v. t.) To expect.
  • (v. t.) To influence, overawe, or subdue by looks or presence as, to look down opposition.
  • (v. t.) To express or manifest by a look.
  • (n.) The act of looking; a glance; a sight; a view; -- often in certain phrases; as, to have, get, take, throw, or cast, a look.
  • (n.) Expression of the eyes and face; manner; as, a proud or defiant look.
  • (n.) Hence; Appearance; aspect; as, the house has a gloomy look; the affair has a bad look.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Michael Schumacher’s manager hopes F1 champion ‘will be here again one day’ Read more Last year, Red Bull were frustrated by Mercedes, Ferrari and Honda as they desperately looked for a new engine supplier.
  • (2) Other articles in the series will look at particular legal problems in the dental specialties.
  • (3) It is my desperate hope that we close out of town.” In the book, God publishes his own 'It Getteth Better' video and clarifies his original writings on homosexuality: I remember dictating these lines to Moses; and afterward looking up to find him staring at me in wide-eyed astonishment, and saying, "Thou do knowest that when the Israelites read this, they're going to lose their fucking shit, right?"
  • (4) I ask a friend to have a stab at, “down at cafe that does us butties”, and he said: “Something to do with his ass?” “Whose arse?” He looked panicked.
  • (5) Names, and the absence of them, could be important Facebook Twitter Pinterest Don’t look back … Daisy Ridley’s Rey and John Boyega’s stormtrooper Finn.
  • (6) I would immediately look askance at anyone who lacks the last and possesses the first.
  • (7) Robben said: "We've got that match, the Fifa Club World Cup, all those games to look forward to.
  • (8) Cook, who has postbox-red hair and a painful-looking piercing in his lower lip, was now on stage in discussion with four fellow YouTubers, all in their early 20s.
  • (9) Hypnosis might be looked upon as a method by which an unscrupulous person could sustain such a state of powerlessness in a victim.
  • (10) The only way we can change it, is if we get people to look in and understand what is happening.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest Dean, Clare and their baby son.
  • (11) There are several common clinical signs which should alert the physician to a possible diagnosis of SLE and which should condition him to look for specific clinical and laboratory findings.
  • (12) It is therefore necessary, to look at typical clinical manifestations, i.e.
  • (13) It looks like the levels of healthy eating are not as good as they should be.
  • (14) It comes as the museum is transforming itself in the wake of major cuts in its government funding and looking more towards private-sector funding, a move that has caused some unease about its future direction.
  • (15) But this is to look at the outcomes in the wrong way.
  • (16) We are pleased to see the process moving forward and look forward to its resolution,” a Target spokeswoman, Molly Snyder, said in an emailed statement.
  • (17) Think of Nelson Mandela – there is a determination, an unwillingness to bend in the face of challenges, that earns you respect and makes people look to you for guidance.
  • (18) That is, he believes, to look at massively difficult, interlocking problems through too narrow a lens.
  • (19) At first it looked as though the winger might have shown too much of the ball to the defence, yet he managed to gain a crucial last touch to nudge it past Phil Jones and into the path of Jerome, who slipped Chris Smalling’s attempt at a covering tackle and held off Michael Carrick’s challenge to place a shot past an exposed De Gea.
  • (20) Looks like some kind of dissent, with Ameobi having words with Phil Dowd at the kick off after Liverpool's second goal.

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