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All 5 letters words made out of mouse

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Definitions and meaning of mouse

mouse

Alternative forms

• mowse (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle English mous, from Old English mūs, from Proto-West Germanic *mūs, from Proto-Germanic *mūs, from Proto-Indo-European *muh₂s.

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.

Pronunciation

Noun

• (Received Pronunciation, General American) enPR: mous, IPA^(key): /maʊs/
• (Canada) IPA^(key): /mʌʊs/
• Rhymes: -aʊs

Verb

• (Received Pronunciation, General American) enPR: mous, mouz, IPA^(key): /maʊs/, /maʊz/
• (Canada) IPA^(key): /mʌʊs/, /mʌʊz/
• Rhymes: -aʊs, -aʊz

Noun

mouse (plural mice or (computer) mouses)

1. Any small rodent of the genus Mus.
2. (informal) A member of the many small rodent and marsupial species resembling such a rodent.
3. A quiet or shy person.
5. (computing) (plural mice or, rarely, mouses) 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.

   (that is, move the mouse so that the pointer moves over the icon)

6. (boxing) A facial hematoma or black eye.
7. (nautical) 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.
8. (obsolete) A familiar term of endearment.
9. A match used in firing guns or blasting.
10. (set theory) A small model of (a fragment of) Zermelo-Fraenkel set theory with desirable properties (depending on the context).
11. (historical) A small cushion for a woman's hair.
12. Part of a hind leg of beef, next to the round.

    Synonym: mouse buttock

Hypernyms

• (small rodent): rodent

Hyponyms

Coordinate terms

• (small rodent): rat
• (input device): joystick, trackpad, trackball, pointing stick

Derived terms

Related terms

• muss

Descendants

Translations

Verb

mouse (third-person singular simple present mouses, present participle mousing, simple past and past participle moused)

1. (intransitive) To move cautiously or furtively, in the manner of a mouse (the rodent) (frequently used in the phrasal verb to mouse around).
2. (intransitive) To hunt or catch mice (the rodents), usually of cats. [from 12th c.]
3. (transitive, nautical) To close the mouth of a hook by a careful binding of marline or wire.

4. (intransitive, computing) To navigate by means of a computer mouse.
5. (obsolete, nonce word, transitive) To tear, as a cat devours a mouse.

Derived terms

Related terms

• muscle
• mussel

Translations

Further reading

• mouse on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• mouse (computing) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Category:Mus on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
• Category:Computer mouse on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
• Mice on Wikiquote.Wikiquote
• Mus on Wikispecies.Wikispecies

Anagrams

• meous, moues

Chinese

Etymology

From English mouse.

Pronunciation

Noun

mouse

1. (Hong Kong Cantonese, computing) mouse (Classifier: 隻／只 c; 個／个 c)

Synonyms

Italian

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English mouse.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmaws/
• Rhymes: -aws

Noun

mouse m (invariable)

1. (computing, computer hardware) mouse (for a PC)

Derived terms

• tappetino per mouse

Anagrams

• esumo, esumò, museo

Middle English

Noun

mouse

1. Alternative form of mous

Portuguese

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English mouse.

Pronunciation

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈmaw.zi/, /ˈmawz/

Noun

mouse m (plural mouses)

1. (Brazil, computer hardware) mouse (input device used to move a pointer on the screen)

   Synonym: (Portugal) rato

2. (Brazil, loosely) pointer; cursor (moving icon that indicates the position of the mouse)

   Synonyms: ponteiro, cursor

Quotations

For quotations using this term, see Citations:mouse.

Romanian

Alternative forms

• maus

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English mouse.

Noun

mouse n (plural mouse-uri)

1. (computing) mouse (for a PC)

Declension

Spanish

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English mouse. Doublet of mur.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmaus/ [ˈmau̯s]
• Rhymes: -aus

Noun

mouse m (plural mouses)

1. (computing, chiefly Latin America) mouse (input device)

   Synonym: ratón

Usage notes

• According to Royal Spanish Academy (RAE) prescriptions, unadapted foreign words should be written in italics in a text printed in roman type, and vice versa, and in quotation marks in a manuscript text or when italics are not available. In practice, this RAE prescription is not always followed.