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10 Language-to-English Dictionariesइंटरनेट सर्फिंग
Pronunciation / Transliteration: intərneṭ sarfiṅg
"वह घंटों इंटरनेट सर्फिंग करता है।"
Comprehensive Definitions & Senses
2 senses- 1
The activity of exploring or browsing through various websites on the internet without a specific destination or purpose.
"He spent the entire rainy Sunday afternoon net-surfing, jumping from news sites to historical archives." - 2
The act of navigating through internet resources or hypertext links in a random or exploratory manner.
"Net-surfing often leads to discovering fascinating niche communities and obscure trivia."
Thesaurus & Semantic Spectrum
Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology
The term is a compound formed from 'net', a late 20th-century truncation of 'internet' (derived from 'interconnected' and 'network'), and 'surfing', originally referring to riding ocean waves on a board, which was metaphorically extended in the early 1990s to describe skimming rapidly through channels, documents, or websites. It gained widespread popularity during the commercialization of the World Wide Web as a colloquial descriptor for browsing online content.
Which of the following is the closest synonym for "Net-surfing"?
10 Global Lexicons: How "Net-surfing" is said worldwide
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surf sur internet
Transliteration: syrf syʁ ɛ̃.tɛʁ.nɛt
"Il passe des heures à faire du surf sur internet."
Surfen
Transliteration: zœʁfən
"Abends entspannt sie sich gerne beim Surfen im Internet."
navigazione in internet
Transliteration: na.vi.ɡaˈt͡sjoː.ne in inˈtɛr.net
"La navigazione in internet richiede una buona connessione."
navegación por internet
Transliteration: na.βe.ɣaˈsjon poɾ in.teɾˈnet
"La navegación por internet puede ser muy educativa."
navegação na internet
Transliteration: na.vi.ɡaˈsɐ̃w na in.tɛɾˈnɛt
"Ele gosta de passar o tempo com a navegação na internet."
इंटरनेट सर्फिंग
Transliteration: intərneṭ sarfiṅg
"वह घंटों इंटरनेट सर्फिंग करता है।"
网上冲浪
Transliteration: wǎng shàng chōng làng
"我喜欢在周末的时候网上冲浪。"
인터넷 서핑
Transliteration: inteonet seoping
"그는 주말마다 인터넷 서핑을 하며 시간을 보낸다."
ネットサーフィン
Transliteration: netto sāfin
"彼は夜遅くまでネットサーフィンをしていた。"
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