different between mouse vs ladybird

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

English

Alternative forms

• lady-bird

Etymology

From lady +? bird, the “lady” here referring to the Virgin Mary, Jesus’ mother. Compare German Marienkäfer (literally “Mary beetle”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?le?.di.b??d/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?le?.di.b?d/

Noun

ladybird (plural ladybirds)

1. Any of the Coccinellidae family of beetles, typically having a round shape and red or yellow spotted elytra.

   Synonyms: (North America) ladybug, coccinellid, (preferred by some scientists) lady beetle, (obsolete) ladycow, (obsolete) lady fly

   • 1914, Entomological Society of America, Annals of the Entomological Society of America, Volume 7, page 81,

     During this time, they eat about 825 Toxoptera per ladybird, making an average of about twenty-five per day to each ladybird.

   • 1927, Hamilton Wright Mabie, Edward Everett Hale, and William Byron Forbush (editors), Childhood?s Favorites and Fairy Stories: The Young Folks Treasury, Volume 1, Gutenberg eBook #19993,

     Lady-bird, lady-bird, fly away home, / Thy house is on fire, thy children all gone: / All but one whose name is Ann, / And she crept under the pudding-pan.

   • 1976 September 30, Denis Owen, Ladybird, ladybird, fly away home, New Scientist, page 686,

     Ladybirds, unlike most beetles, enjoy considerable popularity: they are attractive to look at and are well-known as useful predators of aphids—the greenfly and blackfly that destroy garden plants and crops.

   • 2008, John L. Capinera, Encyclopedia of Entomology, Springer-Verlag New York, 2nd Edition, page 2130,

     Perhaps it was a sense of lack of effectiveness of native ladybirds in rapid and complete control of aphid infestations that led to attempts to import additional aphid-feeding ladybird species into North America.

Usage notes

The term ladybird is used in British English, while the alternative ladybug is common in the US.

Translations

Further reading

• Coccinellidae on Wikipedia.Wikipedia