"grazer" meaning in English

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Noun

IPA: /ˈɡɹeɪz.ə(ɹ)/ Forms: grazers [plural]
Rhymes: -eɪzə(ɹ) Etymology: From graze + -er. Etymology templates: {{af|en|graze|-er|id2=agent noun}} graze + -er Head templates: {{en-noun}} grazer (plural grazers)
  1. One who or that which grazes, in any sense.
    Sense id: en-grazer-en-noun-ztoxwhGL
  2. An animal that grazes.
    Sense id: en-grazer-en-noun-1yCy~S02
  3. A television viewer with a short attention span who switches between channels regularly.
    Sense id: en-grazer-en-noun-wAxiu6v5 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English terms suffixed with -er (agent noun), Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 27 3 70 Disambiguation of English terms suffixed with -er (agent noun): 19 6 75 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 30 6 65 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 30 5 65
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: Earth-grazer, macrograzer, mesograzer, micrograzer, sungrazer

Inflected forms

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  "derived": [
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "word": "Earth-grazer"
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    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "word": "macrograzer"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "word": "mesograzer"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "word": "micrograzer"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "word": "sungrazer"
    }
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  "etymology_text": "From graze + -er.",
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  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
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        {
          "ref": "1995, Margaret Fawcus, Stuttering: From Theory to Practice, page 41:",
          "text": "It seems likely that parents are free to respond in these different ways because they have no fear of their child growing into a chronic, adult knee-grazer.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
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        "One who or that which grazes, in any sense."
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    },
    {
      "categories": [],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1998, Terrestrial Carnivores, Ungulates, and Ungulatelike Mammals, page 595:",
          "text": "There were large hippolike grazers (Teleoceras, Brachypotherium, and Peraceras superciliosum)[…]",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2018 April 4, Hanneke Meijer, The Guardian:",
          "text": "For instance, the little bush moa fed nearly exclusively on forest vegetation, whereas the heavy-footed moa was a grazer in open vegetation habitats.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
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        "An animal that grazes."
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          "ref": "2004, Stanley D. Brunn, Susan L. Cutter, J. W. Harrington Jr., Geography and Technology, page 330:",
          "text": "Grazers have a lower level of involvement and view only when \"something is happening.\"",
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        "A television viewer with a short attention span who switches between channels regularly."
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          "television",
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          "attention span",
          "attention span"
        ]
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      "ipa": "/ˈɡɹeɪz.ə(ɹ)/"
    },
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    },
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    }
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    "Pages with 1 entry",
    "Pages with entries",
    "Rhymes:English/eɪzə(ɹ)",
    "Rhymes:English/eɪzə(ɹ)/2 syllables"
  ],
  "derived": [
    {
      "word": "Earth-grazer"
    },
    {
      "word": "macrograzer"
    },
    {
      "word": "mesograzer"
    },
    {
      "word": "micrograzer"
    },
    {
      "word": "sungrazer"
    }
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        "Quotation templates to be cleaned"
      ],
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        {
          "ref": "1995, Margaret Fawcus, Stuttering: From Theory to Practice, page 41:",
          "text": "It seems likely that parents are free to respond in these different ways because they have no fear of their child growing into a chronic, adult knee-grazer.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "One who or that which grazes, in any sense."
      ]
    },
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        "English terms with quotations",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1998, Terrestrial Carnivores, Ungulates, and Ungulatelike Mammals, page 595:",
          "text": "There were large hippolike grazers (Teleoceras, Brachypotherium, and Peraceras superciliosum)[…]",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2018 April 4, Hanneke Meijer, The Guardian:",
          "text": "For instance, the little bush moa fed nearly exclusively on forest vegetation, whereas the heavy-footed moa was a grazer in open vegetation habitats.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
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        "An animal that grazes."
      ],
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          "animal"
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          "graze",
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        "English terms with quotations",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned"
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          "ref": "2004, Stanley D. Brunn, Susan L. Cutter, J. W. Harrington Jr., Geography and Technology, page 330:",
          "text": "Grazers have a lower level of involvement and view only when \"something is happening.\"",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A television viewer with a short attention span who switches between channels regularly."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "television",
          "television"
        ],
        [
          "attention span",
          "attention span"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
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    {
      "ipa": "/ˈɡɹeɪz.ə(ɹ)/"
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-eɪzə(ɹ)"
    },
    {
      "homophone": "graser"
    }
  ],
  "word": "grazer"
}

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