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Definition mouse
Etymology
From Middle English mous, from Old English 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".
Noun
mouse (plural mice)
- Any small rodent of the genus Mus.
- (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) Hematoma.
- (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.
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.
- (transitive, nautical) To close the mouth of a hook by a careful binding of marline or wire.
- (intransitive, computing) To navigate by means of a computer mouse.
- (obsolete, nonce word, transitive) To tear, as a cat devours a mouse.
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