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mouse
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)
- 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.
- (informal) A member of the many small rodent and marsupial species resembling such a rodent.
- A quiet or shy person.
- (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.
- (boxing) A facial hematoma or black eye.
- (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.
- (obsolete) A familiar term of endearment.
- A match used in firing guns or blasting.
- (set theory) A small model of (a fragment of) Zermelo-Fraenkel set theory with desirable properties (depending on the context).
- (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)
- (intransitive) To move cautiously or furtively, in the manner of a mouse (the rodent) (frequently used in the phrasal verb to mouse around).
- (intransitive) To hunt or catch mice (the rodents), usually of cats. [from 12th c.]
- (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.
- (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.
- 1988, MacUser, Volume 4
- (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
- (Hong Kong Cantonese, computing) mouse (Classifier: ??? c; ??? c)
Synonyms
Italian
Etymology
Borrowed from English mouse.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?maws/
Noun
mouse m (invariable)
- (computing, computer hardware) mouse (for a PC)
Derived terms
- tappetino per mouse
Anagrams
- esumo, esumò, museo
Middle English
Noun
mouse
- Alternative form of mous
Portuguese
Etymology
Borrowed from English mouse.
Pronunciation
- (Brazil) IPA(key): /?maw.zi/, /?mawz/
Noun
mouse m (plural mouses)
- (Brazil, computer hardware) mouse (input device used to move a pointer on the screen)
- Synonym: (Portugal) rato
- (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)
- (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)
- (computing, chiefly Latin America) mouse (input device)
- Synonym: ratón
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clicko
English
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -?k??
Etymology 1
Unknown.
Adjective
clicko (comparative more clicko, superlative most clicko)
- (dated, entertainment) Extremely good or successful.
Noun
clicko (plural clickos)
- (dated, entertainment) An extremely successful production; a hit.
Synonyms
- boffo
Etymology 2
click +? -o, by analogy with typo, as if this were formed a similar way from type
Noun
clicko (plural clickos)
- (Internet, computing, slang) The inadvertent depressing of a computer mouse button on a wrong selection.
Coordinate terms
- scanno, speako, spello, thinko, typo, writo
Translations
Quotations
- For quotations using this term, see Citations:clicko.
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