different between disuse vs nouse

English

Etymology

From Old French desuser.

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /d?s?jus/

Noun

disuse (uncountable)

1. The state of not being used; neglect.

   The garden fell into disuse and became overgrown.

Derived terms

• disused

Translations

Verb

disuse (third-person singular simple present disuses, present participle disusing, simple past and past participle disused)

1. (transitive) To cease the use of.
   • 1790, Edmond Malone, The Plays and Poems of William Shakespeare, London: H. Baldwin, Volume I, p. 194, footnote [1]

     Whether in process of time Shakspeare grew weary of the bondage of rhyme, or whether he became convinced of its impropriety in a dramatick dialogue, his neglect of rhyming (for he never wholly disused it) seems to have been gradual.

   • 1792, Cruelty the natural and inseparable Consequence of Slavery, preached March 11, 1792, at Hemel-Hempstead, Herts. By John Liddon, in The Monthly Review, May to August, Volume VIII, p. 238, [2]

     The author does not fail to recommend the practice, adopted, it is said, by many thousands in the kingdom, of disusing the West India produce.

2. (transitive, archaic) To disaccustom.

   He was disused to hard work.

   • 1597, John Donne, "The Calm," lines 39-44, [3]

     Whether a rotten state, and hope of gaine, / Or to disuse mee from the queasie paine / Of being belov'd, and loving, or the thirst / Of honour, or faire death, out pusht mee first, / I lose my end: for here as well as I / A desperate may live, and a coward die.

Anagrams

• issued

English

Etymology

Blend of nose +? mouse

Noun

nouse (plural not attested)

1. (neologism) A form of computer mouse operated with the nose.
   • 2007, Kerry Maxwell, Brave New Words: A Language Lover's Guide to the 21st Century (page 128)

     Our noses are no longer just for smelling things, but can be used for moving things too in operating a nouse, a device which has the same pointing function as a computer mouse but is controlled by movements of the nose.

Anagrams

• Oenus, ouens

Finnish

Verb

nouse

1. Indicative present connegative form of nousta.
2. Second-person singular imperative present form of nousta.
3. Second-person singular imperative present connegative form of nousta.

Anagrams

• osuen, osune