"web-browser" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: web-browsers [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} web-browser (plural web-browsers)
  1. Alternative form of web browser. Tags: alt-of, alternative Alternative form of: web browser
    Sense id: en-web-browser-en-noun-sbhaK76W Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header

Inflected forms

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          "ref": "1994 September 20, David Plotnikoff, “The fall invasion of neophytes plagues Usenet veterans”, in St. Petersburg Times, volume 111, number 58, page 4D",
          "text": "To see why Al “My Way Is the Highway” Gore and 50,000 other Netheads from across the country have dialed into Monta Vista this year, point your web-browser to http:",
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          "ref": "1995 January 19, Harley Jebens, “Powerhouse Hardware Software”, in XLent (Austin American-Statesman), volume 2, number 3, page 27",
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          "ref": "1995 January 20, John M. Moran, “Internet becomes quake-net: Global audience gets disaster information”, in The Hartford Courant, volume CLVII, number 20, page A8, column 3",
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          "ref": "1995 September 23, Chris Depasquale, “Chess”, in The Age, 141st year, number 43,780, section E, page 15",
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          "ref": "1996 November 6, Karen G. Cheesman, “[People’s Pulpit] Illinois deliberately creates health hazard”, in The Rock Island Argus, 147th year, number 20, Rock Island, Ill., page A4",
          "text": "Incidentally, if you think this situation is just going to go away, you might want to crank up your gubernatorial web-browser and check out: http.//www.netexpress.netgideon/flyaway.html.",
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          "ref": "1997 November 25, “New A-level physics course”, in John Leggott Journal (Scunthorpe Evening Telegraph), number 16, page 12",
          "text": "[…] we might visit The Virtual Laboratory, a site where hundreds of physical phenomena are simulated or demonstrated in a virtual environment using small programs called ‘applets’ designed to run on your web-browser.",
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          "ref": "1998 September 1, Thomas Robson, “Tears of laughter with The Onion”, in The Birmingham Post, number 43,295, page 20, column 2",
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          "ref": "2001 March 23, Star Tribune, volume XIX, number 353",
          "text": "Simply spin your web-browser to www.startribune.com/freeflicks and enter to win a complimentary pass for you and a guest to attend this special advance screening!",
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          "ref": "2007 July 6, Shayne Morrow, quoting Cliff Seiben, “RBC latest target for phishing scam”, in Alberni Valley News, volume 58, number 131, Port Alberni, B.C., page 3A, column 3",
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          "ref": "2010 December 26, The Sunday Times, page R3",
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          "ref": "2013 March 5, Ankeny Register & Press Citizen (The Des Moines Register), page 10",
          "text": "To vote please type in http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/2013AnkenyBestOf into your web-browser or visit http://www.desmoinesregister.com/ankeny and click on the Ankeny Best Of Logo",
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          "ref": "2019 April 12, “ICE system helps to improve services from Picatinny Arsenal garrison”, in The Picatinny Voice, volume 32, number 3, page 12",
          "text": "To get started log onto Picatinny’s ICE page via the garrison website and click on the ICE logo or type https://ice.disa.mil/index.cfm?fa=site&site_id=401 into your web-browser.",
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          "ref": "2021 June 13, “[Obituaries] Mary Margaret Schwenkler Cain”, in Star-Gazette, volume 57, number 225, Elmira, N.Y., page 15A",
          "text": "In lieu of flowers, those wishing may make donations to gofund.me/98ef8236 (copy and past into your web-browser) to combat child hunger in the Finger Lakes and help bring clean water to DR Congo, or Catholic Charities of Elmira, NY.",
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          "ref": "1997 November 25, “New A-level physics course”, in John Leggott Journal (Scunthorpe Evening Telegraph), number 16, page 12",
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          "ref": "2019 April 12, “ICE system helps to improve services from Picatinny Arsenal garrison”, in The Picatinny Voice, volume 32, number 3, page 12",
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