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browse on (something)

To nibble or graze on plants, as of an animal. What can I do to keep animals from browsing on my plants?

browse over

To casually or quickly look over something. Just browse over the pamphlet—you don't have to read it word for word.

browse among (something)

1. To nibble or graze on plants, as of an animal. What can I do to keep animals from browsing among my plants?

2. To consider all of the options presented, often of reading material. Don't worry about me, I'll just browse among the magazines while I'm waiting.

graze

1. To eat small amounts of food over a period of time, usually instead of full meals. I've been grazing all day, so I'm not very hungry right now.

2. To eat a variety of foods in small quantities at one time, instead of a full meal. I'm not too hungry, I think I'll just graze at the party.

3. To touch or scrape one without causing significant injury. Often said of gunshot wounds. You're so lucky the bullet only grazed your shoulder—a few inches lower, and you would have been in big trouble.

browse among something

1. [for an animal] to wander about among plants and trees, selecting and eating some. The deer were browsing among the vegetables in my garden. The cows were browsing among the grasses in the field.

2. [for someone] to look at or survey different items of reading material. I browsed among the books on the rack until I found what I wanted. I browsed among the books for something suitable.

browse on something

[for an animal] to feed on some kind of plant material. The deer browsed on the tender shoots in my garden. The rabbit browsed on my carrots.

browse over something

and browse through something

[for someone] to glance through written or printed material quickly or curiously. Why don't you browse over this and call me about it in the morning? I want to browse through this magazine quickly. When it has been browsed through by everyone, throw it away.

graze

and browse

in. to eat a bit of everything at parties. We will just graze on party snacks rather than eat a full meal. I think I’ll just browse here and skip going out to dinner.

browse

verb

See graze

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Browse assessments in the field that employ more traditional and direct measurement techniques can be costly and time consuming (Jensen and Scotter 1977).

Combining photography and a geographic information system to measure winter browse use

We need to recognize that the downgrading of browse has been driven predominantly by the fact that the internet lacks metadata.

Whatever happened to browse?

Woodside recommended floating LNG (FLNG) technology to the Browse joint venture partners as the best option for the Browse LNG Development off Western Australia

Browse Floating Liquefied Natural Gas (FLNG) Development

Given that moose require available forage during the winter, the management objective focuses on the availability of browse at diverse heights above snow-cover.

Habitat-based adaptive management at Mount Haggin Wildlife Management Area

Browse availability was estimated by converting counts of browsed and unbrowsed twigs in the circular plots to dry weight and summing browsed and unbrowsed dry weight.

Moose winter diet selection in Central Ontario

To access the 1 day Browse On Opera service, text OPERA15 to 247.

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In many areas, unbrowsed spruce is often the only species able to grow above browse height (Janke et al.

Moose-vegetation-soil interactions: a dynamic system

Work will commence immediately to undertake all of the necessary studies and work required to place the Browse Joint Venture participants in a position to consider the commencement of FEED for the selected development concept in 2014.

Australia : Browse Joint Venture Selects Floating LNG As Basis Of Design

1966) determined mountain maple (Acer spicatum) could maintain optimum browse production at use levels of [greater than or equal to] 80%.

Changes in structure of a boreal forest community following intense herbivory by moose

The Browse Joint Venture ("Browse JV"), in which Mitsui & Co.

Japan : Update on Browse LNG Project

As widely expected, Woodside Petroleum has suggested that its Browse Joint Venture (JV) partners implement floating liquefied natural gas (LNG) technology to commercialise their three gas blocks offshore Western Australia.

Australia : WOODSIDE PETROLEUM suggests BROWSE JV partners to adopt floating LNG technology

have completed the transaction in respect of the previously announced participation in the proposed Browse LNG Project ( Project ) as of September 18th 2012 through Japan Australia LNG (MIMI Browse) Pty Ltd ( MIMI Browse ), a wholly-owned subsidiary of Japan Australia LNG (MIMI) Pty Ltd which is a 50-50 joint venture between Mitsubishi and Mitsui, under the agreement made with Woodside Browse Ltd, a subsidiary of Woodside Petroleum Ltd.