browser
pronunciation
How to pronounce browser in British English:
UK [ˈbraʊzə(r)]
How to pronounce browser in American English:
US [ˈbraʊzɚ]
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- Noun:
- a viewer who looks around casually without seeking anything in particular
- a program used to view HTML documents
Word Origin
- browser (n.)
- 1845, "animal which browses," agent noun from browse (v.). In the computer sense by 1982. The first browser was invented at PARC by Larry Tesler, now a designer at Apple Computer. Tesler's first Smalltalk browser was a tree-structured device. It enabled programmers to hunt quickly for items in a Smalltalk dictionary. ["InfoWorld" magazine, vol. v., no. 4, Jan. 24, 1983]
Example
- 1. Chrome will be the browser to watch in 2009 .
- 2. Is google 's chrome browser mainstream ?
- 3. Reload the page in your browser .
- 4. Flock is the social web browser .
- 5. All hail the great browser war !