mouse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: mous
ipa: /maʊs/
ipa: /mʌʊs/
rhymes: -aʊs
Forms: form: mice
form: mouses
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
sciences
physical-sciences
natural-sciences
form: mowse
Etymology: From Middle English mous, from Old English mūs, from Proto-West Germanic *mūs, from Proto-Germanic *mūs, from Proto-Indo-European *múHs.
Cognates
Germanic cognates include Old Frisian mūs, Old Saxon mūs (German Low German Muus), Dutch muis, Old High German mūs (German Maus), Old Norse mús (Swedish mus, Danish mus, Norwegian mus, Icelandic mús, Faroese mús).
Indo-European cognates include Ancient Greek μῦς (mûs), Latin mūs, Spanish mur, Armenian մուկ (muk), Old Church Slavonic мꙑшь (myšĭ) (Russian мышь (myšʹ)), Albanian mi, Persian موش (muš), Northern Kurdish mişk, Sanskrit मूष् (mūṣ).
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.
Senses: examples: text: 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.
ref: 1892, Walter Besant, chapter II, in The Ivory Gate […], New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, […], →OCLC:
text: A person smeared with the excrement of a mouse was rendered impotent, according to Pliny the Elder.
ref: 1961, Harry E. Wedeck, Dictionary of Aphrodisiacs, New York: The Citadel Press, page 158:
text: In molecular biologist David Sinclair’s lab at Harvard Medical School, old mice are growing young again. […] After injecting the virus into the eye, the pluripotent genes were then switched on by feeding the mouse an antibiotic.
ref: 2022 June 2, Sandee LaMotte, “The ‘Benjamin Button’ effect: Scientists can reverse aging in mice. The goal is to do the same for humans”, in CNN:
glosses: Any small rodent of the genus Mus.
glosses: A member of the many small rodent and marsupial species resembling mice, typically having a small body, dark fur, long tail, and nocturnal sleeping pattern compared to rats.
glosses: A quiet or shy person.
examples: text: My mouse needs new batteries.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: 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.
examples: text: Move the mouse over the icon.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A pointer.
topics: boxing
government
hobbies
lifestyle
martial-arts
military
politics
sports
war
glosses: A facial hematoma or black eye.
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: 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.
examples: text: Let the bloat King tempt you again to bed, / Pinch wanton on your cheek, call you his mouse
ref: c. 1599–1602, William Shakespeare, Hamlet, act 3, scene 4:
glosses: A familiar term of endearment.
glosses: A match used in firing guns or blasting.
topics: mathematics
sciences
set-theory
glosses: A small model of (a fragment of) Zermelo-Fraenkel set theory with desirable properties (depending on the context).
glosses: A small cushion for a woman's hair.
synonyms: mouse buttock
glosses: Part of a hind leg of beef, next to the round.
Hypernyms: sense: small rodent
word: rodent
Hyponyms: taxonomic: Sicista spp.
word: birch mouse
word: bristly mouse
word: cactus mouse
word: church mouse
word: Cypriot mouse
word: deer mouse
word: dormouse
word: fancy mouse
word: fat mouse
word: field mouse
word: harvest mouse
word: hopping mouse
taxonomic: Mus musculus
word: house mouse
word: Java mouse-deer
taxonomic: Microdipodops spp.
word: kangaroo mouse
word: Malagasy mouse
word: meadow jumping mouse
word: mouse-goat
word: mouse-like hamster
word: New World mouse
word: Old World mouse
word: optical mouse
word: pouched mouse
word: scorpion mouse
word: sleep like a mouse
word: southern grasshopper mouse
word: spiny mouse
word: spiny pocket mouse
word: St Kilda field mouse
word: Taiwan field mouse
word: the second mouse gets the cheese
word: vesper mouse
word: woolly mouse
word: woolly mouse opossum
word: yellow-necked field mouse
word: zebra mouse
Coordinate terms: sense: small rodent
word: rat
sense: input device
word: joystick
sense: input device
word: trackpad
sense: input device
word: trackball
sense: input device
word: pointing stick
Derived terms: sense: Terms derived from mouse (noun)
word: a cat in gloves catches no mice
sense: Terms derived from mouse (noun)
word: anonymouse
sense: Terms derived from mouse (noun)
word: antimouse
sense: Terms derived from mouse (noun)
word: Arctic mouse-ear
sense: Terms derived from mouse (noun)
word: are you a man or a mouse
sense: Terms derived from mouse (noun); as
word: quiet as a mouse
sense: Terms derived from mouse (noun)
word: Baker's small-toothed harvest mouse
sense: Terms derived from mouse (noun)
word: bastard big-footed mouse
sense: Terms derived from mouse (noun)
word: big-footed mouse
sense: Terms derived from mouse (noun)
word: bit by a barn mouse
sense: Terms derived from mouse (noun)
word: brush-furred mouse
sense: Terms derived from mouse (noun)
word: cat and mouse
sense: Terms derived from mouse (noun)
word: cat-and-mouse
sense: Terms derived from mouse (noun)
word: churchmouse
sense: Terms derived from mouse (noun)
word: city mouse
sense: Terms derived from mouse (noun)
word: clit mouse
sense: Terms derived from mouse (noun)
word: cotton mouse
sense: Terms derived from mouse (noun)
word: Count Branicki's mouse
sense: Terms derived from mouse (noun)
word: country mouse
sense: Terms derived from mouse (noun)
word: creepmouse
sense: Terms derived from mouse (noun)
word: Darling Downs hopping mouse
sense: Terms derived from mouse (noun)
word: demouse
sense: Terms derived from mouse (noun)
word: desert mouse
sense: Terms derived from mouse (noun)
word: Doogie mouse
sense: Terms derived from mouse (noun)
word: dormouse
sense: Terms derived from mouse (noun)
word: dust mouse
sense: Terms derived from mouse (noun)
word: fieldmouse
sense: Terms derived from mouse (noun)
word: flindermouse
sense: Terms derived from mouse (noun)
word: flittermouse
sense: Terms derived from mouse (noun)
word: flitter-mouse
sense: Terms derived from mouse (noun)
word: flying mouse
sense: Terms derived from mouse (noun)
word: Formosan wood mouse
sense: Terms derived from mouse (noun)
word: giant mouse lemur
sense: Terms derived from mouse (noun)
word: glacier mouse
sense: Terms derived from mouse (noun)
word: grasshopper mouse
sense: Terms derived from mouse (noun)
word: greater big-footed mouse
sense: Terms derived from mouse (noun)
word: greater mouse-eared bat
sense: Terms derived from mouse (noun)
word: hog mouse
sense: Terms derived from mouse (noun)
word: intermouse
sense: Terms derived from mouse (noun)
word: intramouse
sense: Terms derived from mouse (noun)
word: is there a mouse in your pocket
sense: Terms derived from mouse (noun)
word: joint mouse
sense: Terms derived from mouse (noun)
word: jumping mouse
sense: Terms derived from mouse (noun)
word: knockout mouse
sense: Terms derived from mouse (noun)
word: lab mouse
sense: Terms derived from mouse (noun)
word: laboratory mouse
sense: Terms derived from mouse (noun)
word: left-mouse
sense: Terms derived from mouse (noun)
word: Madame Berthe's mouse lemur
sense: Terms derived from mouse (noun)
word: marsupial mouse
sense: Terms derived from mouse (noun)
word: meadow mouse
sense: Terms derived from mouse (noun)
word: mechanical mouse
sense: Terms derived from mouse (noun)
word: mer-mouse
sense: Terms derived from mouse (noun)
word: mermouse
sense: Terms derived from mouse (noun)
word: mice-less
sense: Terms derived from mouse (noun)
word: micromouse
sense: Terms derived from mouse (noun)
word: Middle Mouse
sense: Terms derived from mouse (noun)
word: Mitchell's hopping mouse
sense: Terms derived from mouse (noun)
word: Mosley
sense: Terms derived from mouse (noun)
word: mouseable
sense: Terms derived from mouse (noun)
word: mousable
sense: Terms derived from mouse (noun)
word: mousebird
sense: Terms derived from mouse (noun)
word: mouse bungee
sense: Terms derived from mouse (noun)
word: mouse click
sense: Terms derived from mouse (noun)
word: mouseclick
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word: mouse-colored
sense: Terms derived from mouse (noun)
word: mouse-colored antshrike
sense: Terms derived from mouse (noun)
word: mouse-deer
sense: Terms derived from mouse (noun)
word: mouse deer
sense: Terms derived from mouse (noun)
word: mousedom
sense: Terms derived from mouse (noun)
word: mouse-ear
sense: Terms derived from mouse (noun)
word: mouse-eared bat
sense: Terms derived from mouse (noun)
word: mouse-ear hawkweed
sense: Terms derived from mouse (noun)
word: mousefall
sense: Terms derived from mouse (noun)
word: mousefish
sense: Terms derived from mouse (noun)
word: mousefucker
sense: Terms derived from mouse (noun)
word: mouse gun
sense: Terms derived from mouse (noun)
word: mouse-hearted
sense: Terms derived from mouse (noun)
word: mousehole
sense: Terms derived from mouse (noun)
word: mousehood
sense: Terms derived from mouse (noun)
word: mouse jiggler
sense: Terms derived from mouse (noun)
word: mouse jiggling
sense: Terms derived from mouse (noun)
word: Mouseketeer
sense: Terms derived from mouse (noun)
word: mousekin
sense: Terms derived from mouse (noun)
word: mousekind
sense: Terms derived from mouse (noun)
word: mouse lemur
sense: Terms derived from mouse (noun)
word: mouseless
sense: Terms derived from mouse (noun)
word: mouselet
sense: Terms derived from mouse (noun)
word: mouselike
sense: Terms derived from mouse (noun)
word: mouseling
sense: Terms derived from mouse (noun)
word: mouselook
sense: Terms derived from mouse (noun)
word: mouse mat
sense: Terms derived from mouse (noun)
word: mouse melon
sense: Terms derived from mouse (noun)
word: mouse mill
sense: Terms derived from mouse (noun)
word: mouseness
sense: Terms derived from mouse (noun)
word: mouse opossum
sense: Terms derived from mouse (noun)
word: mouse-over
sense: Terms derived from mouse (noun)
word: mouseover
sense: Terms derived from mouse (noun)
word: mousepad
sense: Terms derived from mouse (noun)
word: mouse pad
sense: Terms derived from mouse (noun)
word: mouse pointer
sense: Terms derived from mouse (noun)
word: mouse potato
sense: Terms derived from mouse (noun)
word: mousepox
sense: Terms derived from mouse (noun)
word: mouseprint
sense: Terms derived from mouse (noun)
word: mouse print
sense: Terms derived from mouse (noun)
word: mouseproof
sense: Terms derived from mouse (noun)
word: mouser
sense: Terms derived from mouse (noun)
word: mousery
sense: Terms derived from mouse (noun)
word: mousesicle
sense: Terms derived from mouse (noun)
word: mouse-sight
sense: Terms derived from mouse (noun)
word: mouse slip
sense: Terms derived from mouse (noun)
word: mouse spider
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word: mousetail
sense: Terms derived from mouse (noun)
word: mousetrap
sense: Terms derived from mouse (noun)
word: mouse-warbler
sense: Terms derived from mouse (noun)
word: mouse wheel
sense: Terms derived from mouse (noun)
word: mousework
sense: Terms derived from mouse (noun)
word: mousie
sense: Terms derived from mouse (noun)
word: mousy
sense: Terms derived from mouse (noun)
word: mute as a mouse
sense: Terms derived from mouse (noun)
word: nipple mouse
sense: Terms derived from mouse (noun)
word: nonmouse
sense: Terms derived from mouse (noun)
word: northern birch mouse
sense: Terms derived from mouse (noun)
word: northern grasshopper mouse
sense: Terms derived from mouse (noun)
word: nouse
sense: Terms derived from mouse (noun)
word: oldfield mouse
sense: Terms derived from mouse (noun)
word: oncomouse
sense: Terms derived from mouse (noun)
word: painted bristly mouse
sense: Terms derived from mouse (noun)
word: Petter's big-footed mouse
sense: Terms derived from mouse (noun)
word: play cat and mouse
sense: Terms derived from mouse (noun)
word: pocket mouse
sense: Terms derived from mouse (noun)
word: poor as a church mouse
sense: Terms derived from mouse (noun)
word: premouse
sense: Terms derived from mouse (noun)
word: quiet as a church mouse
sense: Terms derived from mouse (noun)
word: rell-mouse
sense: Terms derived from mouse (noun)
word: reremouse
sense: Terms derived from mouse (noun)
word: ricefield mouse
sense: Terms derived from mouse (noun)
word: right-mouse
sense: Terms derived from mouse (noun)
word: rock mouse
sense: Terms derived from mouse (noun)
word: Rudd's mouse
sense: Terms derived from mouse (noun)
word: sable mouse
sense: Terms derived from mouse (noun)
word: sand mouse
sense: Terms derived from mouse (noun)
word: sea mouse
sense: Terms derived from mouse (noun)
word: seamouse
sense: Terms derived from mouse (noun)
word: sheath-tailed mouse
sense: Terms derived from mouse (noun)
word: shrewmouse
sense: Terms derived from mouse (noun)
word: striped field mouse
sense: Terms derived from mouse (noun)
word: strong enough to trot a mouse on
sense: Terms derived from mouse (noun)
word: sugar mouse
sense: Terms derived from mouse (noun)
word: supermouse
sense: Terms derived from mouse (noun)
word: the best laid plans of mice and men go oft astray
sense: Terms derived from mouse (noun)
word: the best laid plans of mice and men often go awry
sense: Terms derived from mouse (noun)
word: timid as a mouse
sense: Terms derived from mouse (noun)
word: vertical mouse
sense: Terms derived from mouse (noun)
word: water mouse
sense: Terms derived from mouse (noun)
word: when the cat's away the mice will play
sense: Terms derived from mouse (noun)
word: white-footed mouse
sense: Terms derived from mouse (noun)
word: wood mouse
sense: Terms derived from mouse (noun)
word: woodmouse
sense: Terms derived from mouse (noun)
word: yellow-necked mouse
sense: Terms derived from mouse (noun)
word: you got a mouse in your pocket
Related terms: muss