Definition of mouse in English:

mouse

nounPlural mice maʊsmaʊs

1A small rodent that typically has a pointed snout, relatively large ears and eyes, and a long tail.
Family Muridae: many genera and numerous species. Also, some species in the families Heteromyidae, Zapodidae, and Muscardinidae
Example sentencesExamples
- Despite their resemblance to rodents, bats are not closely related to mice at all.
- In gerbils, hamsters and mice, the urine contains allergens.
- Most people are familiar with mice, rats, hamsters, and guinea pigs, which are commonly kept as pets.
- Not only humans and monkeys but also mice and rats show large individual differences in terms of voluntary ethanol intake.
- While most of us are all too willing to cuddle guinea pigs, rabbits, gerbils, pet mice and even ferrets, brown rats produce a reaction of almost universal revulsion.
- As with most small cat species, the diet of wild cats, or domestic cats, is mainly made up of small rodents, such as mice and rats.
- If you see any mice, rodents or other potential carriers of those dangerous fleas, kill them immediately.
- Small rodents, such as hamsters, squirrels, chipmunks, mice, and rabbits, do not typically carry rabies.
- Experiments revealed the same cells that have also been discovered in rats, gophers, gerbils, mice, and hamsters.
- Small mammals, especially rodents such as voles, pocket gophers, and mice make up most of the Great Gray Owl's diet.
- Some ermine appropriate the burrows of mice or ground squirrels and adapt them for their own use.
- Other animals found nearby included two extinct species of vole - a small rodent resembling a mouse - that were used to date the site.
- These fledgling wild barn owls wait in their man-made nest box for their parents to deliver a meal of mice or other rodents.
- I'll hold the mouse up by its tail like this while it grips onto the cage with its front legs.
- Their principle source of food is mice, but squirrels, snowshoe hares, and pikas are also popular.
- They play a very important role in controlling the populations of destructive rodents such as mice and rats, their preferred and primary food items.
- The most common bird of prey is the kestrel, which feeds chiefly on rodents such as mice and voles but will occasionally take small birds, beetles, small frogs, etc.
- Other animals such as horses, rats, mice, rabbits, guinea pigs and birds can also trigger allergies.
- Within eight weeks the handful of rodents had become 60 mice and 12 rats - and the owner had no choice but to call the RSPCA.
- In the primate line, humans and macaques were compared; in the rodent line, mice and rats were compared.
- The scientists will then take a small piece of tissue from the tail tip of the mice to examine the structure of the genome.
- He says that, unlike rats and mice, the rodents give birth to only one offspring at a time, so a precautionary approach should be taken toward their conservation.
1. 1.1 (in general use) any small mammal similar to a mouse, such as a shrew or vole.
2. 1.2 A shy, timid, and quiet person.
  Jane may be a bit of a mouse, but she is very nosy
  Example sentencesExamples
  Renziehausen is a quiet, meek mouse of a soldier with no backbone, and York's performance suggests these qualities very nicely.
  If you are a quiet mouse you can never become a social butterfly.
  The Warren brothers snickered, amused by the sight of their strict teacher suddenly turned into a timid mouse.
  It was Emma, the quiet mouse from the lunch table who, lately, had been looking slimmer and more awake than usual.
3. 1.3mass noun A dull light brown colour reminiscent of a mouse's fur.
  her flaxen hair dulled to mouse
  Example sentencesExamples
  With a gleeful smile, she began to play absent-mindedly with a strand of her mouse brown hair that had strayed free of its bun.
  She seemed to be rather plain, a rather dim little person with mouse-coloured hair and conventional manners.
  It had large round eyes, a small round body with ample mouse-coloured fur, and it dodged very actively in and out among the freshly fallen rock debris.
  Her mouse brown hair was pulled into a neat bun, and she was in good heavy traveling clothes.
  Her long, thin, mouse brown hair flowed down her back, wispy strands sticking out at odd angles.
  The red accented her usually dull brown eyes and contrasted nicely with her normally mouse-brown hair, also bringing out natural blush in her cheeks.
  Instead of a massive head of frizzy mouse brown hair I have smooth, sleek, shoulder length chocolate brown locks.
  She has long mouse brown hair, and dark brown eyes.
  The teacher came in, a somewhat large, dimple-faced woman with mouse brown hair tied in a neat bun and sharp glasses perched on the tip of her nose.
  As if on cue, a girl with shoulder-length mouse brown hair walked right by him, those ever-cautious eyes lost in some daydream.
  He would mock my fair and pale skin, my lank mouse brown hair, and how extremely thin I was.
  The wind whipped waist-length mouse brown hair around her face and made it hard for her to see.
  He opened the door to see a woman, or young woman at least, with mouse brown hair and vibrant green eyes standing before him.
  He watched her climb, a hat on her head covering her long mouse brown hair.
  So while other girls were bobbed and waved, I had my mouse-coloured hair scragged back into a thick pigtail which made my compulsorily worn school hat ride up at the back.
  Her mouse brown hair hung in soft, smooth strands.
  They all looked to the passengers getting off the plane, and spotted a short girl with mouse brown hair and wearing a pink top and white jean shorts.
  The girl nodded and brushed the loose strands of mouse brown hair from her face.
2A small handheld device which is moved across a mat or flat surface to move the cursor on a computer screen.
copy the file with a click of the mouse
as modifier the right mouse button
Example sentencesExamples
- She moved the mouse on her computer and waited while the screensaver disappeared and her work popped back up on the screen.
- Most Web browsers change the mouse cursor when the mouse is over a clickable target.
- When moving the mouse or pressing the buttons or keys, it prints information about the action.
- Finally the computer screen flickered to life. She moved the mouse around and clicked the Internet icon.
- Most people use a computer by moving a mouse, which directs a cursor around on the machine's screen.
- I sat down at the computer, moved the mouse and opened a browser and typed in my hacker's URL.
- That's right - there was no need to reach for cursor keys, function keys or a mouse to move the cursor or execute a command.
- You have to click the computer mouse when you spot one.
- At the show, Tatung is showcasing plasma and liquid-crystal displays, MP3 players, high performance blade servers, tablet PCs and wireless mouses.
- If you don't see a toolbar in the upper-right corner, either move your mouse across the screen or hit the TAB key.
- When I move the mouse, the screen comes to life, offering me a choice between Staff Login and Internet Explorer.
- Drivers are judged by how quickly they spot the danger and click their computer mouse.
- The company has also recently moved into the optical mouse sector.
- Optical mouses, while still a big improvement over older trackball models, often get confused on patterned surfaces and do not work well on metal or glossy tabletops.
- He reached past me and moved the mouse taking the screen saver off.
- In most cases, if you point to the icon for your antivirus and click the right mouse button, a menu will pop up with an update option.
- Move your mouse over the menu button on the lower right icon and ancillary menu functions will scroll up.
- It's accomplished by clicking two buttons and moving the mouse up, down, or sideways.
- The icon box can be resized by holding down the ALT key and clicking the middle mouse button - not intuitive, but easy enough once you know what to do.
- I think that ergonomic mouses place more of a strain on my hand than well-designed symmetrical ones, because the former type force me to keep my hand in the same position on the mouse by the very shape of it.
- I blinked and moved the mouse around the computer screen, clicking on the Internet icon.
- To move your mouse cursor using a touch pad, you simply glide your finger along the touch pad's surface.
- Researchers at the Occupational Health and Safety Research Institute in Montreal asked more than 25 volunteers to switch their mouses to the left side of their computer for a month.
3informal A lump or bruise on or near the eye.
she touched the mouse under her eye

verb maʊzmaʊsmaʊz

[no object]

1(of a cat or owl) hunt for or catch mice.
female cats are usually much better at mousing than males
Example sentencesExamples
- I'm not sure what the cats will make of them - that field is Faber's main area for mousing and Sorley seems to go in there quite a bit too.
1. 1.1with adverbial Prowl about as if searching.
  he was mousing among the books of the old library
2with adverbial of direction Use a mouse to move or position a cursor on a computer screen.
simply mouse over any item on the list
Example sentencesExamples
- For the eye, it doesn't matter if the action happens when I mouse over or after I click.
- On a mobile device, usability is key when there is so little time or functionality for fiddling with menus, pop-ups or mousing around.
- By utilising this code in your HTML file any unvisited links will be displayed in pink, any links being clicked will be red, any visited links will display in gray and any links moused over will display in yellow and be underlined.
- Many navigation schemes use cascading menus: The top or side of the page lists choices that, when moused over or clicked on, open successive levels of submenus.
- Clicking on or mousing over a category reveals the links it contains.
- By mousing over the picture in the layout screen, a little yellow help pop-up lets you know that you can click on the picture once to enter the editing menu.
- It appears that there are Javascript errors when you mouse over the pop-up links.
- Icon X completes the experience by allowing you to add drop shadows, behaviours and color changes to your icons when you mouse over them.
- To be honest, I think it had more to do with mousing around my screen than dragging myself up and down a swimming pool, but either way it's probably just as well I never made it back there this evening.
- I had come to this conclusion independently just mousing around the net.

Usage

Is the plural of mouse in the computing sense mice or mouses? People often feel that this sense needs its own distinctive plural, but in fact the ordinary plural mice is commoner, and the first recorded use of the term in the plural (1984) is mice

Derivatives

mouse-like

adjective

This mouse-like animal flies at night and sleeps in the day by hanging from the branches of trees.
Example sentencesExamples
- Over millions of years and in different corners of the earth, the marsupial and placental lineages, supposedly evolving from a mouse-like species, produced a host of similar designs.
- Participants were asked to move a computer mouse-like device (hereafter called stylus) from different starting positions shown on the computer screen, and to immobilize it on a target also shown on the computer screen.
- Now, I was feeling somewhat nervous, and I could sense her becoming impatient with my mouse-like personality.
- The flowers do not bloom until nightfall, when they emit a mouse-like odour, and bats visit them for nectar and pollen.

Origin

Old English mūs, (plural) mȳs, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch muis and German Maus, from an Indo-European root shared by Latin and Greek mus.

English mouse, Dutch muis, and German Maus share their ancient ancestor with Latin and Greek mus. The essential meaning of the word, that of a small rodent, has remained unchanged. See also muscle. The shared initial m sound, as well as differences of size and character, has prompted contrasts with man. A person might mock another's timidity by asking, ‘Are you a man or a mouse?’ Robert Burns's poem To a Mouse reminded people in 1786, as it does today, that ‘The best laid schemes o’ Mice an’ Men, Gang aft agley’ (‘often go awry’). John Steinbeck's Of Mice and Men, published in 1937, told the story of two farm labourers, one of huge strength but low intelligence, the other who both exploited and protected the first. The computer mouse appeared in the 1960s and was so called from its small size and cord suggesting the tail. A person who spent most of their time sitting using a computer or surfing the internet got the name mouse potato in the 1990s, in imitation of couch potato (see couch). People began setting mousetraps in the 15th century: before that the usual word was mousefall, still used in Scots dialect. The phrase a better mousetrap, ‘an improved version of a well-known article’, comes from an observation attributed to the US philosopher and poet Ralph Waldo Emerson in 1889, though it is also claimed by Elbert Hubbard: ‘If a man write a better book, preach a better sermon, or make a better mousetrap than his neighbour, tho’ he build his house in the woods, the world will make a beaten path to his door.’ Agatha Christie took The Mousetrap as the title for her most successful play, a murder mystery premiered in London in 1952, and still going strong as the longest continuously running play of all time. She took the title from Hamlet's mockingly named play by the same title with which he traps his uncle.

Rhymes

douse, dowse, Gauss, grouse, house, Klaus, louse, Manaus, nous, Rouse, souse, spouse, Strauss

Definition of mouse in US English:

mouse

nounmousmaʊs

1A small rodent that typically has a pointed snout, relatively large ears and eyes, and a long tail.
Family Muridae: many genera and numerous species. Also, some species in the families Heteromyidae, Zapodidae, and Muscardinidae
Example sentencesExamples
- These fledgling wild barn owls wait in their man-made nest box for their parents to deliver a meal of mice or other rodents.
- Their principle source of food is mice, but squirrels, snowshoe hares, and pikas are also popular.
- Not only humans and monkeys but also mice and rats show large individual differences in terms of voluntary ethanol intake.
- Small mammals, especially rodents such as voles, pocket gophers, and mice make up most of the Great Gray Owl's diet.
- In the primate line, humans and macaques were compared; in the rodent line, mice and rats were compared.
- Other animals such as horses, rats, mice, rabbits, guinea pigs and birds can also trigger allergies.
- I'll hold the mouse up by its tail like this while it grips onto the cage with its front legs.
- Some ermine appropriate the burrows of mice or ground squirrels and adapt them for their own use.
- The scientists will then take a small piece of tissue from the tail tip of the mice to examine the structure of the genome.
- Despite their resemblance to rodents, bats are not closely related to mice at all.
- They play a very important role in controlling the populations of destructive rodents such as mice and rats, their preferred and primary food items.
- Other animals found nearby included two extinct species of vole - a small rodent resembling a mouse - that were used to date the site.
- Most people are familiar with mice, rats, hamsters, and guinea pigs, which are commonly kept as pets.
- In gerbils, hamsters and mice, the urine contains allergens.
- Small rodents, such as hamsters, squirrels, chipmunks, mice, and rabbits, do not typically carry rabies.
- As with most small cat species, the diet of wild cats, or domestic cats, is mainly made up of small rodents, such as mice and rats.
- The most common bird of prey is the kestrel, which feeds chiefly on rodents such as mice and voles but will occasionally take small birds, beetles, small frogs, etc.
- If you see any mice, rodents or other potential carriers of those dangerous fleas, kill them immediately.
- While most of us are all too willing to cuddle guinea pigs, rabbits, gerbils, pet mice and even ferrets, brown rats produce a reaction of almost universal revulsion.
- Experiments revealed the same cells that have also been discovered in rats, gophers, gerbils, mice, and hamsters.
- Within eight weeks the handful of rodents had become 60 mice and 12 rats - and the owner had no choice but to call the RSPCA.
- He says that, unlike rats and mice, the rodents give birth to only one offspring at a time, so a precautionary approach should be taken toward their conservation.
1. 1.1 (in general use) any small mammal similar to a mouse, such as a shrew or vole.
2. 1.2 A shy, timid, and quiet person.
  Example sentencesExamples
  It was Emma, the quiet mouse from the lunch table who, lately, had been looking slimmer and more awake than usual.
  Renziehausen is a quiet, meek mouse of a soldier with no backbone, and York's performance suggests these qualities very nicely.
  The Warren brothers snickered, amused by the sight of their strict teacher suddenly turned into a timid mouse.
  If you are a quiet mouse you can never become a social butterfly.
3. 1.3 A dull light brown color reminiscent of a mouse's fur.
  her blonde hair dulled to mouse
  Example sentencesExamples
  He would mock my fair and pale skin, my lank mouse brown hair, and how extremely thin I was.
  She has long mouse brown hair, and dark brown eyes.
  So while other girls were bobbed and waved, I had my mouse-coloured hair scragged back into a thick pigtail which made my compulsorily worn school hat ride up at the back.
  The wind whipped waist-length mouse brown hair around her face and made it hard for her to see.
  It had large round eyes, a small round body with ample mouse-coloured fur, and it dodged very actively in and out among the freshly fallen rock debris.
  He watched her climb, a hat on her head covering her long mouse brown hair.
  The red accented her usually dull brown eyes and contrasted nicely with her normally mouse-brown hair, also bringing out natural blush in her cheeks.
  With a gleeful smile, she began to play absent-mindedly with a strand of her mouse brown hair that had strayed free of its bun.
  They all looked to the passengers getting off the plane, and spotted a short girl with mouse brown hair and wearing a pink top and white jean shorts.
  The teacher came in, a somewhat large, dimple-faced woman with mouse brown hair tied in a neat bun and sharp glasses perched on the tip of her nose.
  Her long, thin, mouse brown hair flowed down her back, wispy strands sticking out at odd angles.
  The girl nodded and brushed the loose strands of mouse brown hair from her face.
  Instead of a massive head of frizzy mouse brown hair I have smooth, sleek, shoulder length chocolate brown locks.
  He opened the door to see a woman, or young woman at least, with mouse brown hair and vibrant green eyes standing before him.
  Her mouse brown hair hung in soft, smooth strands.
  As if on cue, a girl with shoulder-length mouse brown hair walked right by him, those ever-cautious eyes lost in some daydream.
  Her mouse brown hair was pulled into a neat bun, and she was in good heavy traveling clothes.
  She seemed to be rather plain, a rather dim little person with mouse-coloured hair and conventional manners.
2A small handheld device that is dragged across a flat surface to move the cursor on a computer screen, typically having buttons that are pressed to control functions.
Example sentencesExamples
- I sat down at the computer, moved the mouse and opened a browser and typed in my hacker's URL.
- Optical mouses, while still a big improvement over older trackball models, often get confused on patterned surfaces and do not work well on metal or glossy tabletops.
- That's right - there was no need to reach for cursor keys, function keys or a mouse to move the cursor or execute a command.
- In most cases, if you point to the icon for your antivirus and click the right mouse button, a menu will pop up with an update option.
- When I move the mouse, the screen comes to life, offering me a choice between Staff Login and Internet Explorer.
- Most people use a computer by moving a mouse, which directs a cursor around on the machine's screen.
- You have to click the computer mouse when you spot one.
- Finally the computer screen flickered to life. She moved the mouse around and clicked the Internet icon.
- Move your mouse over the menu button on the lower right icon and ancillary menu functions will scroll up.
- To move your mouse cursor using a touch pad, you simply glide your finger along the touch pad's surface.
- The company has also recently moved into the optical mouse sector.
- Drivers are judged by how quickly they spot the danger and click their computer mouse.
- If you don't see a toolbar in the upper-right corner, either move your mouse across the screen or hit the TAB key.
- She moved the mouse on her computer and waited while the screensaver disappeared and her work popped back up on the screen.
- He reached past me and moved the mouse taking the screen saver off.
- I blinked and moved the mouse around the computer screen, clicking on the Internet icon.
- When moving the mouse or pressing the buttons or keys, it prints information about the action.
- The icon box can be resized by holding down the ALT key and clicking the middle mouse button - not intuitive, but easy enough once you know what to do.
- At the show, Tatung is showcasing plasma and liquid-crystal displays, MP3 players, high performance blade servers, tablet PCs and wireless mouses.
- Most Web browsers change the mouse cursor when the mouse is over a clickable target.
- I think that ergonomic mouses place more of a strain on my hand than well-designed symmetrical ones, because the former type force me to keep my hand in the same position on the mouse by the very shape of it.
- Researchers at the Occupational Health and Safety Research Institute in Montreal asked more than 25 volunteers to switch their mouses to the left side of their computer for a month.
- It's accomplished by clicking two buttons and moving the mouse up, down, or sideways.
3informal A lump or bruise, especially one on or near the eye.

verbmouzmaʊz

[no object]

1(of a cat or owl) hunt for or catch mice.
Example sentencesExamples
- I'm not sure what the cats will make of them - that field is Faber's main area for mousing and Sorley seems to go in there quite a bit too.
1. 1.1with adverbial Prowl around as if searching.
  he was mousing among the books of the old library
2with adverbial of direction Use a mouse to move a cursor on a computer screen.
simply mouse over any item in the list
Example sentencesExamples
- Many navigation schemes use cascading menus: The top or side of the page lists choices that, when moused over or clicked on, open successive levels of submenus.
- By utilising this code in your HTML file any unvisited links will be displayed in pink, any links being clicked will be red, any visited links will display in gray and any links moused over will display in yellow and be underlined.
- Clicking on or mousing over a category reveals the links it contains.
- It appears that there are Javascript errors when you mouse over the pop-up links.
- To be honest, I think it had more to do with mousing around my screen than dragging myself up and down a swimming pool, but either way it's probably just as well I never made it back there this evening.
- I had come to this conclusion independently just mousing around the net.
- By mousing over the picture in the layout screen, a little yellow help pop-up lets you know that you can click on the picture once to enter the editing menu.
- For the eye, it doesn't matter if the action happens when I mouse over or after I click.
- Icon X completes the experience by allowing you to add drop shadows, behaviours and color changes to your icons when you mouse over them.
- On a mobile device, usability is key when there is so little time or functionality for fiddling with menus, pop-ups or mousing around.

Usage

Is the plural of mouse in the computing sense mice or mouses? People often feel that this sense needs its own distinctive plural, but in fact the ordinary plural mice is more common, and the first recorded use of the term in the plural (1984) is mice

Origin

Old English mūs, (plural) mȳs, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch muis and German Maus, from an Indo-European root shared by Latin and Greek mus.

单词	mouse
释义	Definition of mouse in English: mouse nounPlural mice maʊsmaʊs 1A small rodent that typically has a pointed snout, relatively large ears and eyes, and a long tail. Family Muridae: many genera and numerous species. Also, some species in the families Heteromyidae, Zapodidae, and Muscardinidae Example sentencesExamples Despite their resemblance to rodents, bats are not closely related to mice at all. In gerbils, hamsters and mice, the urine contains allergens. Most people are familiar with mice, rats, hamsters, and guinea pigs, which are commonly kept as pets. Not only humans and monkeys but also mice and rats show large individual differences in terms of voluntary ethanol intake. While most of us are all too willing to cuddle guinea pigs, rabbits, gerbils, pet mice and even ferrets, brown rats produce a reaction of almost universal revulsion. As with most small cat species, the diet of wild cats, or domestic cats, is mainly made up of small rodents, such as mice and rats. If you see any mice, rodents or other potential carriers of those dangerous fleas, kill them immediately. Small rodents, such as hamsters, squirrels, chipmunks, mice, and rabbits, do not typically carry rabies. Experiments revealed the same cells that have also been discovered in rats, gophers, gerbils, mice, and hamsters. Small mammals, especially rodents such as voles, pocket gophers, and mice make up most of the Great Gray Owl's diet. Some ermine appropriate the burrows of mice or ground squirrels and adapt them for their own use. Other animals found nearby included two extinct species of vole - a small rodent resembling a mouse - that were used to date the site. These fledgling wild barn owls wait in their man-made nest box for their parents to deliver a meal of mice or other rodents. I'll hold the mouse up by its tail like this while it grips onto the cage with its front legs. Their principle source of food is mice, but squirrels, snowshoe hares, and pikas are also popular. They play a very important role in controlling the populations of destructive rodents such as mice and rats, their preferred and primary food items. The most common bird of prey is the kestrel, which feeds chiefly on rodents such as mice and voles but will occasionally take small birds, beetles, small frogs, etc. Other animals such as horses, rats, mice, rabbits, guinea pigs and birds can also trigger allergies. Within eight weeks the handful of rodents had become 60 mice and 12 rats - and the owner had no choice but to call the RSPCA. In the primate line, humans and macaques were compared; in the rodent line, mice and rats were compared. The scientists will then take a small piece of tissue from the tail tip of the mice to examine the structure of the genome. He says that, unlike rats and mice, the rodents give birth to only one offspring at a time, so a precautionary approach should be taken toward their conservation. 1.1 (in general use) any small mammal similar to a mouse, such as a shrew or vole. 1.2 A shy, timid, and quiet person. Jane may be a bit of a mouse, but she is very nosy Example sentencesExamples Renziehausen is a quiet, meek mouse of a soldier with no backbone, and York's performance suggests these qualities very nicely. If you are a quiet mouse you can never become a social butterfly. The Warren brothers snickered, amused by the sight of their strict teacher suddenly turned into a timid mouse. It was Emma, the quiet mouse from the lunch table who, lately, had been looking slimmer and more awake than usual. 1.3mass noun A dull light brown colour reminiscent of a mouse's fur. her flaxen hair dulled to mouse Example sentencesExamples With a gleeful smile, she began to play absent-mindedly with a strand of her mouse brown hair that had strayed free of its bun. She seemed to be rather plain, a rather dim little person with mouse-coloured hair and conventional manners. It had large round eyes, a small round body with ample mouse-coloured fur, and it dodged very actively in and out among the freshly fallen rock debris. Her mouse brown hair was pulled into a neat bun, and she was in good heavy traveling clothes. Her long, thin, mouse brown hair flowed down her back, wispy strands sticking out at odd angles. The red accented her usually dull brown eyes and contrasted nicely with her normally mouse-brown hair, also bringing out natural blush in her cheeks. Instead of a massive head of frizzy mouse brown hair I have smooth, sleek, shoulder length chocolate brown locks. She has long mouse brown hair, and dark brown eyes. The teacher came in, a somewhat large, dimple-faced woman with mouse brown hair tied in a neat bun and sharp glasses perched on the tip of her nose. As if on cue, a girl with shoulder-length mouse brown hair walked right by him, those ever-cautious eyes lost in some daydream. He would mock my fair and pale skin, my lank mouse brown hair, and how extremely thin I was. The wind whipped waist-length mouse brown hair around her face and made it hard for her to see. He opened the door to see a woman, or young woman at least, with mouse brown hair and vibrant green eyes standing before him. He watched her climb, a hat on her head covering her long mouse brown hair. So while other girls were bobbed and waved, I had my mouse-coloured hair scragged back into a thick pigtail which made my compulsorily worn school hat ride up at the back. Her mouse brown hair hung in soft, smooth strands. They all looked to the passengers getting off the plane, and spotted a short girl with mouse brown hair and wearing a pink top and white jean shorts. The girl nodded and brushed the loose strands of mouse brown hair from her face. 2A small handheld device which is moved across a mat or flat surface to move the cursor on a computer screen. copy the file with a click of the mouse as modifier the right mouse button Example sentencesExamples She moved the mouse on her computer and waited while the screensaver disappeared and her work popped back up on the screen. Most Web browsers change the mouse cursor when the mouse is over a clickable target. When moving the mouse or pressing the buttons or keys, it prints information about the action. Finally the computer screen flickered to life. She moved the mouse around and clicked the Internet icon. Most people use a computer by moving a mouse, which directs a cursor around on the machine's screen. I sat down at the computer, moved the mouse and opened a browser and typed in my hacker's URL. That's right - there was no need to reach for cursor keys, function keys or a mouse to move the cursor or execute a command. You have to click the computer mouse when you spot one. At the show, Tatung is showcasing plasma and liquid-crystal displays, MP3 players, high performance blade servers, tablet PCs and wireless mouses. If you don't see a toolbar in the upper-right corner, either move your mouse across the screen or hit the TAB key. When I move the mouse, the screen comes to life, offering me a choice between Staff Login and Internet Explorer. Drivers are judged by how quickly they spot the danger and click their computer mouse. The company has also recently moved into the optical mouse sector. Optical mouses, while still a big improvement over older trackball models, often get confused on patterned surfaces and do not work well on metal or glossy tabletops. He reached past me and moved the mouse taking the screen saver off. In most cases, if you point to the icon for your antivirus and click the right mouse button, a menu will pop up with an update option. Move your mouse over the menu button on the lower right icon and ancillary menu functions will scroll up. It's accomplished by clicking two buttons and moving the mouse up, down, or sideways. The icon box can be resized by holding down the ALT key and clicking the middle mouse button - not intuitive, but easy enough once you know what to do. I think that ergonomic mouses place more of a strain on my hand than well-designed symmetrical ones, because the former type force me to keep my hand in the same position on the mouse by the very shape of it. I blinked and moved the mouse around the computer screen, clicking on the Internet icon. To move your mouse cursor using a touch pad, you simply glide your finger along the touch pad's surface. Researchers at the Occupational Health and Safety Research Institute in Montreal asked more than 25 volunteers to switch their mouses to the left side of their computer for a month. 3informal A lump or bruise on or near the eye. she touched the mouse under her eye verb maʊzmaʊsmaʊz [no object] 1(of a cat or owl) hunt for or catch mice. female cats are usually much better at mousing than males Example sentencesExamples I'm not sure what the cats will make of them - that field is Faber's main area for mousing and Sorley seems to go in there quite a bit too. 1.1with adverbial Prowl about as if searching. he was mousing among the books of the old library 2with adverbial of direction Use a mouse to move or position a cursor on a computer screen. simply mouse over any item on the list Example sentencesExamples For the eye, it doesn't matter if the action happens when I mouse over or after I click. On a mobile device, usability is key when there is so little time or functionality for fiddling with menus, pop-ups or mousing around. By utilising this code in your HTML file any unvisited links will be displayed in pink, any links being clicked will be red, any visited links will display in gray and any links moused over will display in yellow and be underlined. Many navigation schemes use cascading menus: The top or side of the page lists choices that, when moused over or clicked on, open successive levels of submenus. Clicking on or mousing over a category reveals the links it contains. By mousing over the picture in the layout screen, a little yellow help pop-up lets you know that you can click on the picture once to enter the editing menu. It appears that there are Javascript errors when you mouse over the pop-up links. Icon X completes the experience by allowing you to add drop shadows, behaviours and color changes to your icons when you mouse over them. To be honest, I think it had more to do with mousing around my screen than dragging myself up and down a swimming pool, but either way it's probably just as well I never made it back there this evening. I had come to this conclusion independently just mousing around the net. Usage Is the plural of mouse in the computing sense mice or mouses? People often feel that this sense needs its own distinctive plural, but in fact the ordinary plural mice is commoner, and the first recorded use of the term in the plural (1984) is mice Derivatives mouse-like adjective This mouse-like animal flies at night and sleeps in the day by hanging from the branches of trees. Example sentencesExamples Over millions of years and in different corners of the earth, the marsupial and placental lineages, supposedly evolving from a mouse-like species, produced a host of similar designs. Participants were asked to move a computer mouse-like device (hereafter called stylus) from different starting positions shown on the computer screen, and to immobilize it on a target also shown on the computer screen. Now, I was feeling somewhat nervous, and I could sense her becoming impatient with my mouse-like personality. The flowers do not bloom until nightfall, when they emit a mouse-like odour, and bats visit them for nectar and pollen. Origin Old English mūs, (plural) mȳs, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch muis and German Maus, from an Indo-European root shared by Latin and Greek mus. English mouse, Dutch muis, and German Maus share their ancient ancestor with Latin and Greek mus. The essential meaning of the word, that of a small rodent, has remained unchanged. See also muscle. The shared initial m sound, as well as differences of size and character, has prompted contrasts with man. A person might mock another's timidity by asking, ‘Are you a man or a mouse?’ Robert Burns's poem To a Mouse reminded people in 1786, as it does today, that ‘The best laid schemes o’ Mice an’ Men, Gang aft agley’ (‘often go awry’). John Steinbeck's Of Mice and Men, published in 1937, told the story of two farm labourers, one of huge strength but low intelligence, the other who both exploited and protected the first. The computer mouse appeared in the 1960s and was so called from its small size and cord suggesting the tail. A person who spent most of their time sitting using a computer or surfing the internet got the name mouse potato in the 1990s, in imitation of couch potato (see couch). People began setting mousetraps in the 15th century: before that the usual word was mousefall, still used in Scots dialect. The phrase a better mousetrap, ‘an improved version of a well-known article’, comes from an observation attributed to the US philosopher and poet Ralph Waldo Emerson in 1889, though it is also claimed by Elbert Hubbard: ‘If a man write a better book, preach a better sermon, or make a better mousetrap than his neighbour, tho’ he build his house in the woods, the world will make a beaten path to his door.’ Agatha Christie took The Mousetrap as the title for her most successful play, a murder mystery premiered in London in 1952, and still going strong as the longest continuously running play of all time. She took the title from Hamlet's mockingly named play by the same title with which he traps his uncle. Rhymes douse, dowse, Gauss, grouse, house, Klaus, louse, Manaus, nous, Rouse, souse, spouse, Strauss Definition of mouse in US English: mouse nounmousmaʊs 1A small rodent that typically has a pointed snout, relatively large ears and eyes, and a long tail. Family Muridae: many genera and numerous species. Also, some species in the families Heteromyidae, Zapodidae, and Muscardinidae Example sentencesExamples These fledgling wild barn owls wait in their man-made nest box for their parents to deliver a meal of mice or other rodents. Their principle source of food is mice, but squirrels, snowshoe hares, and pikas are also popular. Not only humans and monkeys but also mice and rats show large individual differences in terms of voluntary ethanol intake. Small mammals, especially rodents such as voles, pocket gophers, and mice make up most of the Great Gray Owl's diet. In the primate line, humans and macaques were compared; in the rodent line, mice and rats were compared. Other animals such as horses, rats, mice, rabbits, guinea pigs and birds can also trigger allergies. I'll hold the mouse up by its tail like this while it grips onto the cage with its front legs. Some ermine appropriate the burrows of mice or ground squirrels and adapt them for their own use. The scientists will then take a small piece of tissue from the tail tip of the mice to examine the structure of the genome. Despite their resemblance to rodents, bats are not closely related to mice at all. They play a very important role in controlling the populations of destructive rodents such as mice and rats, their preferred and primary food items. Other animals found nearby included two extinct species of vole - a small rodent resembling a mouse - that were used to date the site. Most people are familiar with mice, rats, hamsters, and guinea pigs, which are commonly kept as pets. In gerbils, hamsters and mice, the urine contains allergens. Small rodents, such as hamsters, squirrels, chipmunks, mice, and rabbits, do not typically carry rabies. As with most small cat species, the diet of wild cats, or domestic cats, is mainly made up of small rodents, such as mice and rats. The most common bird of prey is the kestrel, which feeds chiefly on rodents such as mice and voles but will occasionally take small birds, beetles, small frogs, etc. If you see any mice, rodents or other potential carriers of those dangerous fleas, kill them immediately. While most of us are all too willing to cuddle guinea pigs, rabbits, gerbils, pet mice and even ferrets, brown rats produce a reaction of almost universal revulsion. Experiments revealed the same cells that have also been discovered in rats, gophers, gerbils, mice, and hamsters. Within eight weeks the handful of rodents had become 60 mice and 12 rats - and the owner had no choice but to call the RSPCA. He says that, unlike rats and mice, the rodents give birth to only one offspring at a time, so a precautionary approach should be taken toward their conservation. 1.1 (in general use) any small mammal similar to a mouse, such as a shrew or vole. 1.2 A shy, timid, and quiet person. Example sentencesExamples It was Emma, the quiet mouse from the lunch table who, lately, had been looking slimmer and more awake than usual. Renziehausen is a quiet, meek mouse of a soldier with no backbone, and York's performance suggests these qualities very nicely. The Warren brothers snickered, amused by the sight of their strict teacher suddenly turned into a timid mouse. If you are a quiet mouse you can never become a social butterfly. 1.3 A dull light brown color reminiscent of a mouse's fur. her blonde hair dulled to mouse Example sentencesExamples He would mock my fair and pale skin, my lank mouse brown hair, and how extremely thin I was. She has long mouse brown hair, and dark brown eyes. So while other girls were bobbed and waved, I had my mouse-coloured hair scragged back into a thick pigtail which made my compulsorily worn school hat ride up at the back. The wind whipped waist-length mouse brown hair around her face and made it hard for her to see. It had large round eyes, a small round body with ample mouse-coloured fur, and it dodged very actively in and out among the freshly fallen rock debris. He watched her climb, a hat on her head covering her long mouse brown hair. The red accented her usually dull brown eyes and contrasted nicely with her normally mouse-brown hair, also bringing out natural blush in her cheeks. With a gleeful smile, she began to play absent-mindedly with a strand of her mouse brown hair that had strayed free of its bun. They all looked to the passengers getting off the plane, and spotted a short girl with mouse brown hair and wearing a pink top and white jean shorts. The teacher came in, a somewhat large, dimple-faced woman with mouse brown hair tied in a neat bun and sharp glasses perched on the tip of her nose. Her long, thin, mouse brown hair flowed down her back, wispy strands sticking out at odd angles. The girl nodded and brushed the loose strands of mouse brown hair from her face. Instead of a massive head of frizzy mouse brown hair I have smooth, sleek, shoulder length chocolate brown locks. He opened the door to see a woman, or young woman at least, with mouse brown hair and vibrant green eyes standing before him. Her mouse brown hair hung in soft, smooth strands. As if on cue, a girl with shoulder-length mouse brown hair walked right by him, those ever-cautious eyes lost in some daydream. Her mouse brown hair was pulled into a neat bun, and she was in good heavy traveling clothes. She seemed to be rather plain, a rather dim little person with mouse-coloured hair and conventional manners. 2A small handheld device that is dragged across a flat surface to move the cursor on a computer screen, typically having buttons that are pressed to control functions. Example sentencesExamples I sat down at the computer, moved the mouse and opened a browser and typed in my hacker's URL. Optical mouses, while still a big improvement over older trackball models, often get confused on patterned surfaces and do not work well on metal or glossy tabletops. That's right - there was no need to reach for cursor keys, function keys or a mouse to move the cursor or execute a command. In most cases, if you point to the icon for your antivirus and click the right mouse button, a menu will pop up with an update option. When I move the mouse, the screen comes to life, offering me a choice between Staff Login and Internet Explorer. Most people use a computer by moving a mouse, which directs a cursor around on the machine's screen. You have to click the computer mouse when you spot one. Finally the computer screen flickered to life. She moved the mouse around and clicked the Internet icon. Move your mouse over the menu button on the lower right icon and ancillary menu functions will scroll up. To move your mouse cursor using a touch pad, you simply glide your finger along the touch pad's surface. The company has also recently moved into the optical mouse sector. Drivers are judged by how quickly they spot the danger and click their computer mouse. If you don't see a toolbar in the upper-right corner, either move your mouse across the screen or hit the TAB key. She moved the mouse on her computer and waited while the screensaver disappeared and her work popped back up on the screen. He reached past me and moved the mouse taking the screen saver off. I blinked and moved the mouse around the computer screen, clicking on the Internet icon. When moving the mouse or pressing the buttons or keys, it prints information about the action. The icon box can be resized by holding down the ALT key and clicking the middle mouse button - not intuitive, but easy enough once you know what to do. At the show, Tatung is showcasing plasma and liquid-crystal displays, MP3 players, high performance blade servers, tablet PCs and wireless mouses. Most Web browsers change the mouse cursor when the mouse is over a clickable target. I think that ergonomic mouses place more of a strain on my hand than well-designed symmetrical ones, because the former type force me to keep my hand in the same position on the mouse by the very shape of it. Researchers at the Occupational Health and Safety Research Institute in Montreal asked more than 25 volunteers to switch their mouses to the left side of their computer for a month. It's accomplished by clicking two buttons and moving the mouse up, down, or sideways. 3informal A lump or bruise, especially one on or near the eye. verbmouzmaʊz [no object] 1(of a cat or owl) hunt for or catch mice. Example sentencesExamples I'm not sure what the cats will make of them - that field is Faber's main area for mousing and Sorley seems to go in there quite a bit too. 1.1with adverbial Prowl around as if searching. he was mousing among the books of the old library 2with adverbial of direction Use a mouse to move a cursor on a computer screen. simply mouse over any item in the list Example sentencesExamples Many navigation schemes use cascading menus: The top or side of the page lists choices that, when moused over or clicked on, open successive levels of submenus. By utilising this code in your HTML file any unvisited links will be displayed in pink, any links being clicked will be red, any visited links will display in gray and any links moused over will display in yellow and be underlined. Clicking on or mousing over a category reveals the links it contains. It appears that there are Javascript errors when you mouse over the pop-up links. To be honest, I think it had more to do with mousing around my screen than dragging myself up and down a swimming pool, but either way it's probably just as well I never made it back there this evening. I had come to this conclusion independently just mousing around the net. By mousing over the picture in the layout screen, a little yellow help pop-up lets you know that you can click on the picture once to enter the editing menu. For the eye, it doesn't matter if the action happens when I mouse over or after I click. Icon X completes the experience by allowing you to add drop shadows, behaviours and color changes to your icons when you mouse over them. On a mobile device, usability is key when there is so little time or functionality for fiddling with menus, pop-ups or mousing around. Usage Is the plural of mouse in the computing sense mice or mouses? People often feel that this sense needs its own distinctive plural, but in fact the ordinary plural mice is more common, and the first recorded use of the term in the plural (1984) is mice Origin Old English mūs, (plural) mȳs, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch muis and German Maus, from an Indo-European root shared by Latin and Greek mus.
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