Difference between Browse and Graze

What is the difference between Browse and Graze?

Browse as a noun is the shrub and tree parts eaten by browsing animals. while Graze as a noun is the act of grazing; a scratching or injuring lightly on passing.

Browse

Part of speech: noun

Definition: The shrub and tree parts eaten by browsing animals.

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To scan, to casually look through in order to find items of interest, especially without knowledge of what to look for beforehand. To move about while sampling, such as with food or products on display. To successively load hyperlinked documents on a computer, usually with a browser. To move about while eating parts of plants, especially plants other than pasture, such as shrubs or trees.

Example sentence: During my stint in IT, I worked and used the free time to browse the net for research on cinema. In the evenings, I did theatre. Had I not been successful, I would have gone back to my IT job. It was my back up plan.

Graze

Part of speech: noun

Definition: The act of grazing; a scratching or injuring lightly on passing.A light abrasion; a slight scratch.

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To feed or supply (cattle, sheep, etc.) with grass; to furnish pasture for.To feed on; to eat (growing herbage); to eat grass from (a pasture); to browse.To tend (cattle, etc.) while grazing.To rub or touch lightly the surface of (a thing) in passing.To cause a slight wound to; to scratch.

Example sentence: There is hardly a place on Earth where people do not log, pave, spray, drain, flood, graze, fish, plow, burn, drill, spill or dump. There is no life zone, with the possible exception of the deep ocean, that we are not degrading.

We hope you now know whether to use Browse or Graze in your sentence.

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