different between fridge vs mouse

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA^(key): /f??d??/
• Rhymes: -?d?

Etymology 1

The noun is a clipping of refrigerator, perhaps influenced by the Frigidaire brand of refrigerators, or frigerator (“(dated) refrigerator”). The verb is derived from the noun.

Noun

fridge (plural fridges)

1. (informal) A refrigerator. [from 1920s]

Alternative forms

• 'fridge
• frig (dated)

Derived terms

• fridge-freezer
• fridgeful
• fridgeless
• fridge magnet

Translations

Verb

fridge (third-person singular simple present fridges, present participle fridging, simple past and past participle fridged)

1. (transitive, informal) To place (something) inside a refrigerator to chill; to refrigerate.

Etymology 2

From fridge (“to place (something) inside a refrigerator to chill”), alluding to “women in refrigerators”, a phrase coined by the American comic book writer Gail Simone, who criticized a plot point in Green Lantern (volume 3, issue 54, 1994) in which Kyle Rayner, the Green Lantern, comes home to discover that the villain Major Force has murdered his girlfriend Alexandra DeWitt and left her body for him to find in the refrigerator.

Verb

fridge (third-person singular simple present fridges, present participle fridging, simple past and past participle fridged)

1. (transitive, fandom slang) To gratuitously kill, disempower, or otherwise remove (a character, usually female) from a narrative, often strictly to hurt another character (usually male) and provide him with a personal motivation for fighting the antagonist(s).

Translations

Etymology 3

Probably imitative of the sound of chafing or rubbing.

Verb

fridge (third-person singular simple present fridges, present participle fridging, simple past and past participle fridged)

1. (transitive, archaic, chiefly Britain, dialectal) To chafe or rub (something).
2. (intransitive, obsolete)
   1. To chafe or rub.
   2. Synonym of fidge (“to jostle or shake; to fidget, to fig, to frig”)

Translations

References

Further reading

• refrigerator on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Women in Refrigerators on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

English

Alternative forms

• mowse (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle English mous, from Old English m?s, from Proto-West Germanic *m?s, from Proto-Germanic *m?s, from Proto-Indo-European *muh?s.

The computing sense was coined by American engineer Bill English in 1965 and first used publicly in a publication titled "Computer-Aided Display Control".

Pronunciation

Noun

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ma?s/
• (US) enPR: mous, IPA^(key): /ma?s/
• (Canada) IPA^(key): /m??s/
• Rhymes: -a?s

Verb

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ma?s/, /ma?z/
• (US) enPR: mous, mouz, IPA^(key): /ma?s/, /ma?z/
• (Canada) IPA^(key): /m??s/, /ma?z/
• Rhymes: -a?s, -a?z

Noun

mouse (plural mice)

1. 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.

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.
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.

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.

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

4. (intransitive, computing) To navigate by means of a computer mouse.
   • 1988, MacUser, Volume 4

     I had just moused to the File menu and the pull-down menu repeated the menu bar's hue a dozen shades lighter.
5. (obsolete, nonce word, transitive) To tear, as a cat devours a mouse.

Derived terms

Translations

Related terms

• muscle
• mussel

Further reading

• mouse on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• mouse (computing) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Mus on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
• 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: ??? c; ??? c)

Synonyms

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from English mouse.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?maws/

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

Borrowed from English mouse.

Pronunciation

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /?maw.zi/, /?mawz/

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

Borrowed from English mouse.

Noun

mouse n (plural mouse-uri)

1. (computing) mouse (for a PC)

Declension

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from English mouse. Doublet of mur.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?maus/, [?mau?s]

Noun

mouse m (plural mouses)

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

   Synonym: ratón