{
  "id": "browse.visual",
  "term": "browse",
  "sense": "visual",
  "pos": "verb",
  "status": "review",
  "level": 16,
  "arena": "human activity",
  "domain": "everyday",
  "style": null,
  "definition": "to look visual at items in a space and go from one to another",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "look.visual",
      "items.object",
      "space.extent",
      "go.movement"
    ],
    "interaction": "The eyes or cursor look at items and go from one to another in the space",
    "novel_properties": [
      "sequential examination",
      "non‑goal‑directed selection",
      "visual exploration"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "Visitors wander through the Tate Modern, pausing at each painting in the Rothko room before moving to the next.",
      "domain": "everyday life"
    },
    {
      "text": "Users scroll through Netflix’s homepage rows, sampling thumbnails of movies without selecting any.",
      "domain": "computing"
    },
    {
      "text": "Shoppers walk the aisles of IKEA, glancing at furniture displays from all angles before continuing.",
      "domain": "economics"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [
    {
      "id": "search.action",
      "type": "is-a",
      "note": "browsing is a form of searching"
    }
  ],
  "used_by": [],
  "forms": [
    "browse",
    "browsed",
    "browses",
    "browsing"
  ],
  "closed": true,
  "provenance": {
    "author": "openrouter:openai/gpt-oss-120b",
    "date": "2026-07-29",
    "confidence": 0.6
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-browse.visual"
}