Meaning of "graze" in the English dictionary

ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD GRAZE

Old English grasian, from græsgrass; related to Old High German grasōn, Dutch grazen, Norwegian grasa.

Etymology is the study of the origin of words and their changes in structure and significance.

PRONUNCIATION OF GRAZE

graze  [ɡreɪz]

GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF GRAZE

Graze is a verb and can also act as a noun.

A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

The verb is the part of the sentence that is conjugated and expresses action and state of being.

See the conjugation of the verb graze in English.

WHAT DOES GRAZE MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Grazing

Grazing is a type of feeding, in which a herbivore feeds on plants, and also on other multicellular autotrophs. Grazing differs from true predation because the organism being eaten from is not generally killed, and it differs from parasitism as the two organisms do not live together, nor is the grazer necessarily so limited in what it can eat. Many small selective herbivores follow larger grazers, who skim off the highest, tough growth of plants, exposing tender shoots. For terrestrial animals, grazing is normally distinguished from browsing in that grazing is eating grass or forbs, and browsing is eating woody twigs and leaves from trees and shrubs. Grazing is important in agriculture, in which domestic livestock are used to convert grass and other forage into meat, milk and other products. Water animals that feed for example on algae found on stones are called grazers-scrapers. Grazers-scrapers feed also on microorganism and dead organic matter on various substrates.

Definition of graze in the English dictionary

The first definition of graze in the dictionary is to allow to consume the vegetation on, or to feed thus. Other definition of graze is to tend while at pasture. Graze is also to eat snacks throughout the day rather than formal meals.

CONJUGATION OF THE VERB TO GRAZE

PRESENT

Present

I graze

you graze

he/she/it grazes

we graze

you graze

they graze

Present continuous

I am grazing

you are grazing

he/she/it is grazing

we are grazing

you are grazing

they are grazing

Present perfect

I have grazed

you have grazed

he/she/it has grazed

we have grazed

you have grazed

they have grazed

Present perfect continuous

I have been grazing

you have been grazing

he/she/it has been grazing

we have been grazing

you have been grazing

they have been grazing

Present tense is used to refer to circumstances that exist at the present time or over a period that includes the present time. The present perfect refers to past events, although it can be considered to denote primarily the resulting present situation rather than the events themselves.

PAST

Past

I grazed

you grazed

he/she/it grazed

we grazed

you grazed

they grazed

Past continuous

I was grazing

you were grazing

he/she/it was grazing

we were grazing

you were grazing

they were grazing

Past perfect

I had grazed

you had grazed

he/she/it had grazed

we had grazed

you had grazed

they had grazed

Past perfect continuous

I had been grazing

you had been grazing

he/she/it had been grazing

we had been grazing

you had been grazing

they had been grazing

Past tense forms express circumstances existing at some time in the past,

FUTURE

Future

I will graze

you will graze

he/she/it will graze

we will graze

you will graze

they will graze

Future continuous

I will be grazing

you will be grazing

he/she/it will be grazing

we will be grazing

you will be grazing

they will be grazing

Future perfect

I will have grazed

you will have grazed

he/she/it will have grazed

we will have grazed

you will have grazed

they will have grazed

Future perfect continuous

I will have been grazing

you will have been grazing

he/she/it will have been grazing

we will have been grazing

you will have been grazing

they will have been grazing

The future is used to express circumstances that will occur at a later time.

CONDITIONAL

Conditional

I would graze

you would graze

he/she/it would graze

we would graze

you would graze

they would graze

Conditional continuous

I would be grazing

you would be grazing

he/she/it would be grazing

we would be grazing

you would be grazing

they would be grazing

Conditional perfect

I would have graze

you would have graze

he/she/it would have graze

we would have graze

you would have graze

they would have graze

Conditional perfect continuous

I would have been grazing

you would have been grazing

he/she/it would have been grazing

we would have been grazing

you would have been grazing

they would have been grazing

Conditional or "future-in-the-past" tense refers to hypothetical or possible actions.

IMPERATIVE

Imperative

you graze
we let´s graze
you graze

The imperative is used to form commands or requests.

NONFINITE VERB FORMS

Infinitive

to graze

Past participle

grazed

Present Participle

grazing

Infinitive shows the action beyond temporal perspective. The present participle or gerund shows the action during the session. The past participle shows the action after completion.

SYNONYMS OF «GRAZE»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «graze» and belong to the same grammatical category.

synonyms of graze

abrade · abrasion · bark · browse · brush · chafe · crop · feed · kiss · pasture · rub · scrape · scratch · shave · skim · skin · touch

TRANSLATION OF GRAZE

Find out the translation of graze to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.

The translations of graze from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «graze» in English.

• Translator English - Chinese: 吃草
• Translator English - Spanish: pacer
• English: graze
• Translator English - Hindi: चरने
• Translator English - Arabic: رعي
• Translator English - Russian: ссадина
• Translator English - Portuguese: pastar
• Translator English - Bengali: আচড়
• Translator English - French: paître
• Translator English - Malay: Merapikan
• Translator English - German: grasen
• Translator English - Japanese: 牧草を食べさせる/牧草を食べる
• Translator English - Korean: 방목되다
• Translator English - Javanese: Graze
• Translator English - Vietnamese: gặm cỏ
• Translator English - Tamil: மேய்
• Translator English - Marathi: चरणे
• Translator English - Turkish: sıyrık
• Translator English - Italian: pascolare
• Translator English - Polish: wypas
• Translator English - Ukrainian: садно
• Translator English - Romanian: paște
• Translator English - Greek: βόσκουν
• Translator English - Afrikaans: wei
• Translator English - Swedish: skrubbsår
• Translator English - Norwegian: beiter

6 QUOTES WITH «GRAZE»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word graze.

1

Diane Ackerman

We're dabbling in eugenics all the time, breeding ideal crops to replace less aesthetic or nutritious or hardy varieties; leveling forests to graze cattle or erect shopping malls and condos; planting groves of a few familiar trees that homeowners and industries prefer.

2

James Fenton

Free verse seemed democratic because it offered freedom of access to writers. And those who disdained free verse would always be open to accusations of elitism, mandarinism. Open form was like common ground on which all might graze their cattle - it was not to be closed in by usurping landlords.

3

Charles Lyell

In valley drift we meet commonly with the bones of quadrupeds which graze on plains bordering rivers.

4

Philipp Meyer

Texas was mostly short-grass and tall-grass prairie when modern Europeans arrived here. It really was a land of milk and honey. But when they brought all these cattle onto these relatively small bits of land, and the cattle were allowed to graze freely, they essentially destroyed the prairie.

5

Alexandra Paul

Meat is an inefficient way to eat. An acre of land can yield 20,000 pounds of potatoes, but that same acre would only graze enough cows to get 165 pounds of meat.

6

Marisa Tomei

I'm a person who has to eat! I graze every few hours.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «GRAZE»

Discover the use of graze in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to graze and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.

Sheep May Safely Graze: 2 Pianos

Duet for 2 pianos This arrangement has been made from a Soprano recitative and Aria from the Birthday Cantata by Bach.

Johann Sebastian Bach, Mary Howe, 2007

Risk, Environment and Modernity: Towards a New Ecology

MAY. THE. SHEEP. SAFELY. GRAZE? A. REFLEXIVE. VIEW. OF. THE. EXPERT- LAY. KNOWLEDGE. DIVIDE. Brian. Wynne. It has been a frequently remarked feature of the environmental issue that it is so strongly characterised in scientific ...

Scott Lash, Bronislaw Szerszynski, Brian Wynne, 1996

Elizabeth Murray, paintings and drawings

In this book, the dynamic evolution of Murray's art and its place in the art world are discussed with great flair and insight in an essay by art critic Roberta Smith.

Elizabeth Murray, Sue Graze, Kathy Halbreich, 1987

Management Framework Plan Amendment, Environmental Impact ...

Annual forbs Riparian Soils in critical or severe erosion condition Rest during late winter and spring on pronghorn habitat Rest from livestock grazing for a period of 3 to 5 years, then graze no more than every other year Rest during growing ...

United States. Bureau of Land Management. Las Cruces District Office, 1983

Department of the Interior draft environmental statement, ...

Years in grazing cycle PASTURES A B C 1 Graze yearlong March - Feb. Graze Summer-Fall July - Feb. Rest yearlong March - Feb. 2 Graze Summer-Fall July - Feb. Rest yearlong July - Feb. Graze yearlong March - Feb. 3 Rest yearlong March ...

United States. Bureau of Land Management. Arizona State Office, 1979

The Sky is Your Laboratory: Advanced Astronomy Projects for ...

First, it provides the longitude and latitude coordinates of points on the ``central graze line''. That is, the graze line that is de®ned by the mean lunar limb, assuming no lunar topography. (That's useful because you'll place your observers ...

Robert Buchheim, 2007

New Zealand Journal of Agricultural Research

DM/tree by February 1988, whereas graze-only treatments had about 3000 g non -edible DM/tree. Initially, at Springston, the canopy (portion of tree above sheep grazing reach) in the hard graze treatment was shorter and less dense than the ...

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A Complete Manual of Amateur Astronomy: Tools and Techniques ...

The reappearances of stars, even very bright ones, are not usually included on prediction sheets while the moon is in its waxing phases. Graze Occupations A rare and special type of occultation is the graze occultation, which occurs when the ...

P. Clay Sherrod, Thomas L. Koed, 2003

Gunshot Wounds: Practical Aspects of Firearms, Ballistics, ...

In both graze and tangential wounds, it may be difficult to tell the direction in which the bullet was traveling when it produced the wound. Examination of the two ends of a tangential wound will often but not always reveal the entrance end to ...

Vincent J.M. DiMaio, M.D., 1998

Influence of Fall Grazing by Sheep on Plant Productivity, ...

For the control plots, end of growing season mean total phytomass averaged 955 2m g (Table 4), an apparent 20% decrease from post-graze levels and an apparent overall decrease of 18% from pre-graze levels. In the following fractions , ...

Ryan D. Woodland, 2007

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «GRAZE»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term graze is used in the context of the following news items.

Graze hungry for high street presence

The online snacks brand Graze goes physical on Monday when its boxed nibbles will be sold in shops for the first time, in a sign that even ... «Financial Times, Jul 15»

Award-winning fine dining restaurant to close after almost a decade

But gourmands need not despair as Graze's owners Kate Alleston and Neil Mannifield will open new eatery Market at the same Western Road ... «The Argus, Jul 15»

Judge says he won't stop sheep grazing over wildlife worries

BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — More than 2,000 domestic sheep can continue to graze on U.S. Forest Service land in Montana's Gravelly Mountains ... «seattlepi.com, Jul 15»

Documents: US agents knew of 'El Chapo' escape plots in 2014

Eva Salazar Sanchez's cattle graze in a meadow near the Altiplano maximum security prison, seen in the background, in Almoloya, west of ... «Deseret News, Jul 15»

Taking advantage of fescue's strong suit

Simply put, stockpiling means to store up fescue pasture growth from August until mid-fall and then to graze this growth during late fall and early ... «Bristol Herald Courier, Jul 15»

Dolores to Become a Major Hurricane Offshore of Mexico

However, enough moisture is wrapping around Dolores for its outermost rain bands to graze the southwestern Mexican coast. Rainfall amounts ... «AccuWeather.com, Jul 15»

Officials say fatal Paterson shooting happened in area with recent …

In that incident, a 39-year-old man suffered a graze wound to his chin while he was near the corner of 9th Avenue and East 18th Street at about ... «NorthJersey.com, Jul 15»

This is one of the best books of 2015. I'm not sure you should read it.

We learn that Jude is so badly scarred that he dresses in heavy layers so “Even if someone were to accidentally graze his back, he was ... «Washington Post, Jul 15»

Catching Up: Summer Kitchen down to 2000 jars of product

Restaurateur Tory Miller and his partners allowed Summer Kitchen to set up just away from the main market near Graze restaurant, 1 S. «Madison.com, Jul 15»

Man suffers graze wound in Brooklyn drive-by shooting

He suffered a graze wound to his neck and was taken to Kings County Hospital in stable condition. Police are searching for the suspects, who ... «New York's PIX11 / WPIX-TV, Jul 15»