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mouse

noun
/maʊs/US/mʌʊs/CA

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *múHs Proto-Germanic *mūs Proto-West Germanic *mūs Old English mūs Middle English mous English mouse Inherited from Middle English mous, from Old English mūs, from Proto-West Germanic *mūs, from Proto-Germanic *mūs, from Proto-Indo-European *múHs. Cognates Germanic cognates include Old Frisian mūs, Old Saxon mūs (German Low German Muus), Dutch muis, Old High German mūs (German Maus), Old Norse mús (Danish, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk, and Swedish mus, Icelandic and Faroese mús). Indo-European cognates include Ancient Greek μῦς (mûs), Latin mūs, Spanish mur, Armenian մուկ (muk), Old Church Slavonic мꙑшь (myšĭ) (Russian мышь (myšʹ)), Albanian mi, Persian موش (muš), Northern Kurdish mişk, Sanskrit मूष् (mūṣ). The computing sense was coined by American engineer Bill English in 1965 and first used publicly in a publication titled "Computer-Aided Display Control", in reference to the similarity with the animal.

  1. derived from Maus

Definitions

  1. Any of many rodent families (especially Muridae) that have a small body and a long tail.

    • Near-synonyms: murine, murid, vole (all parasynonymous with this broad sense)

  2. A quiet or shy person.

  3. An input device that is moved over a pad or other flat surface to produce a corresponding…

    An input device that is moved over a pad or other flat surface to produce a corresponding movement of a pointer on a graphical display.

    • My mouse needs new batteries.
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    1. A pointer.

      • Move the mouse over the icon.

    2. A facial hematoma or black eye.

    3. A turn or lashing of spun yarn or small stuff, or a metallic clasp or fastening, uniting…

      A turn or lashing of spun yarn or small stuff, or a metallic clasp or fastening, uniting the point and shank of a hook to prevent its unhooking or straightening out.

    4. A familiar term of endearment.

      • Let the bloat King tempt you again to bed, / Pinch wanton on your cheek, call you his mouse

    5. A match used in firing guns or blasting.

    6. A small model of (a fragment of) Zermelo-Fraenkel set theory with desirable properties…

      A small model of (a fragment of) Zermelo-Fraenkel set theory with desirable properties (depending on the context).

    7. A small cushion for a woman's hair.

    8. Part of a hind leg of beef, next to the round.

    9. To move cautiously or furtively, in the manner of a mouse (the rodent) (frequently used…

      To move cautiously or furtively, in the manner of a mouse (the rodent) (frequently used in the phrasal verb to mouse around).

    10. To hunt or catch mice (the rodents), usually of cats.

    11. To close the mouth of a hook by a careful binding of marline or wire.

      • Captain Higgins moused the hook with a bit of marline to prevent the block beckets from falling out under slack.

    12. To navigate by means of a computer mouse.

      • I had just moused to the File menu and the pull-down menu repeated the menu bar's hue a dozen shades lighter.
      • Unlike the Flamenco work, the Relation Browser allows users to quickly explore a document space using dynamic queries issued by mousing over facet elements in the interface.

    13. To tear, as a cat devours a mouse.

      • [Death] mousing the flesh of men.

    14. The Walt Disney Company.

      • At Disney, on the other hand, there was only one landowner and one government; public and private were fused. […] Spawned by the Mouse's arrival, I-Drive (as it is known locally) runs parallel to I-4, lying partly in Orlando and partly[…]
      • They are cut off from their regular jobs to see how the Mouse operates. Eisner told the Harvard Business Review. Synergy happens at Disney because it should. Our products scream out for synergy.
      • […] take eventually eked up to $33 million worldwide, but not before Walt Disney Studios declared the whole experiment a disappointment. […] But when the Mouse cut bait, MAGI was forced to close its LA office and sell off Synthavision.

    15. A surname from German.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA