graze

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim The act of grazing; a scratching or injuring lightly on passing.
2. isim A light abrasion; a slight scratch.
3. isim The act of animals feeding from pasture.

   “If it be sundown, when the herds are returning from their daily graze in the long grass of the jungle, clouds of dust will be marking their track along every approach to the village […]”

4. fiil To feed or supply (cattle, sheep, etc.) with grass; to furnish pasture for.

   “He hath a Houſe and Barn in repair, a Field or two to graze his Cows, with a Garden and Orchard.”

5. fiil To feed on; to eat (growing herbage); to eat grass from (a pasture)

   “Cattle graze in the meadows.”

6. fiil To tend (cattle, etc.) while grazing.

   “Shylock: When Jacob grazed his uncle Laban's sheep”

7. fiil To eat small amounts of food periodically throughout the day, rather than at fixed mealtimes, often not in response to hunger.

   “Furthermore, people who take the time to sit down to proper meals find their food more satisfying than people who graze throughout the day. If you skip meals, you will inevitably end up snacking on more high-fat high-sugar foods.”

8. fiil To shoplift by consuming food or drink items before reaching the checkout.

   “Grazing refers to customers who consume food items before paying for them, for example, a customer bags one and a half pounds of grapes in the produce department, eats some as she continues her shopping […]”

9. fiil To rub or touch lightly the surface of (a thing) in passing.

   “the bullet grazed the wall”

10. fiil To cause a slight wound to; to scratch.

    “to graze one's knee”

11. fiil To yield grass for grazing.

    “The sewers must be kept so as the water may not stay too long in the spring; for then the ground continueth the wet, whereby it will never graze to purpose that year.”