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- 1 The Walt Disney Company. US, metonymically, uncountable, with-definite-article
"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[…]"
- 2 A surname from German.
- 1 A rodent, typically having a small body, dark fur, and a long tail.
- 2 any of numerous small rodents typically resembling diminutive rats having pointed snouts and small ears on elongated bodies with slender usually hairless tails wordnet
- 3 Any small rodent of the genus Mus.
"At twilight in the summer there is never anybody to fear—man, woman, or cat—in the chambers and at that hour the mice come out. They do not eat parchment or foolscap or red tape, but they eat the luncheon crumbs."
- 4 a hand-operated electronic device that controls the coordinates of a cursor on your computer screen as you move it around on a pad; on the bottom of the device is a ball that rolls on the surface of the pad wordnet
- 5 A quiet or shy person.
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- 6 person who is quiet or timid wordnet
- 7 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."
- 8 a swollen bruise caused by a blow to the eye wordnet
- 9 A pointer.
"Move the mouse over the icon."
- 10 A facial hematoma or black eye.
- 11 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.
- 12 A familiar term of endearment. obsolete
"Let the bloat King tempt you again to bed, / Pinch wanton on your cheek, call you his mouse"
- 13 A match used in firing guns or blasting.
- 14 A small model of (a fragment of) Zermelo-Fraenkel set theory with desirable properties (depending on the context).
- 15 A small cushion for a woman's hair. historical
- 16 Part of a hind leg of beef, next to the round.
- 1 To move cautiously or furtively, in the manner of a mouse (the rodent) (frequently used in the phrasal verb to mouse around). intransitive
- 2 manipulate the mouse of a computer wordnet
- 3 To hunt or catch mice (the rodents), usually of cats. intransitive
- 4 to go stealthily or furtively wordnet
- 5 To close the mouth of a hook by a careful binding of marline or wire. transitive
"Captain Higgins moused the hook with a bit of marline to prevent the block beckets from falling out under slack."
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- 6 To navigate by means of a computer mouse. intransitive
"I had just moused to the File menu and the pull-down menu repeated the menu bar's hue a dozen shades lighter."
- 7 To tear, as a cat devours a mouse. nonce-word, obsolete, transitive
"[Death] mousing the flesh of men."
Etymology
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 (Swedish mus, Danish mus, Norwegian mus, Icelandic mús, 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.
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 (Swedish mus, Danish mus, Norwegian mus, Icelandic mús, 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.
The surname is sometimes an Americanized spelling of German Maus. The metonym for Disney comes from its icon Mickey Mouse.
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