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Definition: Mouse |
MouseNoun1. Any of numerous small rodents typically resembling diminutive rats having pointed snouts and small ears on elongated bodies with slender usually hairless tails. 2. A hand-operated electronic device that moves the cursor on a computer screen. Verb1. To go stealthily or furtively: "..stead of sneaking around spying on the neighbor's house". 2. Manipulate the mouse of a computer. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "mouse" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1258. (references) |
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Satire | MOUSE, n. An animal which strews its path with fainting women. As in Rome Christians were thrown to the lions, so centuries earlier in Otumwee, the most ancient and famous city of the world, female heretics were thrown to the mice. Jakak-Zotp, the historian, the only Otumwump whose writings have descended to us, says that these martyrs met their death with little dignity and much exertion. He even attempts to exculpate the mice (such is the malice of bigotry) by declaring that the unfortunate women perished, some from exhaustion, some of broken necks from falling over their own feet, and some from lack of restoratives. The mice, he avers, enjoyed the pleasures of the chase with composure. But if "Roman history is nine-tenths lying," we can hardly expect a smaller proportion of that rhetorical figure in the annals of a people capable of so incredible cruelty to a lovely women; for a hard heart has a false tongue. Source: Devil's Dictionary. |
Computing | Mouse A mighty small macro language developed by Peter Grogono in 1975. ["Mouse, A Language for Microcomputers", P. Grogono |
19th Century Satire | The frequent cause of a rise in cotton. Source: Foolish Dictionary, 1904. |
Bible | Mouse Heb. 'akhbar, "swift digger"), properly the dormouse, the field-mouse (1 Sam. 6:4). In Lev. 11:29, Isa. 66:17 this word is used generically, and includes the jerboa (Mus jaculus), rat, hamster (Cricetus), which, though declared to be unclean animals, were eaten by the Arabs, and are still eaten by the Bedouins. It is said that no fewer than twenty-three species of this group ('akhbar=Arab. ferah) of animals inhabit Palestine. God "laid waste" the people of Ashdod by the terrible visitation of field-mice, which are like locusts in their destructive effects (1 Sam. 6:4, 11, 18). Herodotus, the Greek historian, accounts for the destruction of the army of Sennacherib (2 Kings 19:35) by saying that in the night thousands of mice invaded the camp and gnawed through the bow-strings, quivers, and shields, and thus left the Assyrians helpless. (See SENNACHERIB.). Source: Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary. |
Dream Interpretation | For a woman to dream of a mouse, denotes that she will have an enemy who will annoy her by artfulness and treachery. Source: Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted .... |
Literature | Mouse The soul or spirit was often supposed in olden times to assume a zoömorphic form, and to make its way at death through the mouth of man in a visible form, sometimes as a pigeon, sometimes as a mouse or rat. A red mouse indicated a pure soul; a black mouse, a soul blackened by pollution; a pigeon or dove, a saintly soul. Exorcists used to drive out evil spirits from the human body, and Harsnet gives several instances of such expulsions in his Popular Impositions (1604). No doubt pigeons were at one time trained to represent the departing soul, and also to represent the Holy Ghost. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
Meteorology & Standards | A bank of pressure-measuring tubes used to measure pressures in a flow, especially the total pressures, simultaneously at different places near a solid surface. Source: European Union. (references) |
Multilingual Slang | Norwegian (mus). (references) |
Slang in 1811 | MOUSE. To speak like a mouse in a cheese; i.e. faintly or indistinctly. Source: 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
A mouse is a handheld pointing device for computers, involving a small object fitted with several buttons and shaped to sit naturally under the hand. The underside of the mouse houses a device that detects the mouse's motion relative to the flat surface on which it sits. The mouse's motion is typically translated into the motion of a cursor within the plane of the display.
History of mouse engineering
The mouse was invented by Douglas Engelbart of Stanford Research Institute in 1963 after extensive usability testing. The first mouse was bulky, and used two gear wheels perpendicular to each other: the rotation of each wheel was translated into motion along one axis in the plane. Douglas Engelbart received patent US3541541 on November 17, 1970 for a "X-Y Position Indicator For A Display System".
A later variation, invented in the early 1970s by Bill English at Xerox PARC, replaced the external wheels with a single ball which could rotate in any direction. The ball's motion, in turn, was detected using perpendicular wheels housed on the interior of the mouse's body. This variant of the mouse resembled an inverted trackball, and was the predominant form used with personal computers throughout the 1980s and 1990s.
In a separate line of evolution, the optical mouse detected movement using an optical sensor on its underside, paired with a light emitting diode to illuminate the surface. Early optical mice , such as those invented by Steve Kirsch of Mouse Systems Corporation, could only be used on a special metallic surface (mouse pad) imprinted with a grid of fine black lines. As computing power grew cheaper, it became possible to embed more powerful special-purpose image processing chips in the mouse. This advance enabled the mouse to "see" motion on a wide variety of surfaces, eliminating the need for a special mouse pad. This advance paved the way for widespread adoption of optical mice.
In contrast to the motion sensing mechanism, the mouse's buttons have changed little, varying mostly in shape and number. Engelbart's very first mouse had a single button; this was soon increased to three. Commercial mice usually had between one and three buttons, although in the late 1990s some mice sprouted five or more. The only major innovation in mouse buttons was the scroll wheel: a small wheel, with its axis oriented parallel to the mousing surface, that could be rotated "up" or "down" to provide immediate one-dimensional input. Usually, this input was translated into "scrolling" up or down within the currently selected window (see graphical user interface).
Like all input devices, mice need some connection to the host computer in order to transmit their input. Typical mice use a thin electrical cord (e.g., a RS-232 or USB cable) for this purpose. It was most likely the combination of the tail-like cord, size, and shape which led the mouse's inventors to name it as such. Cordless ("tailless") mice use wireless communication (via infra-red or radio) to transmit data.
In 2000, Logitech introduced the tactile mouse, which contained a small effector that made the mouse vibrate. Such a mouse could be used to augment user interfaces with haptic feedback. Other unusual variants have included mice that are held freely in the hand, rather than on a flat surface, and detect six dimensions of motion (the three spatial dimensions, plus rotation on three axes). So far, these mouse exotica have not achieved widespread popularity.
Mice in the marketplace
In the 1970s, Xerox PARC included mice with its Xerox Star. Later, inspired by the Star, Apple Computer released the Apple Lisa, which also used a mouse. However, neither the Star nor the Lisa were commercially successful. Only with the release of the Apple Macintosh in 1984 did the mouse see widespread use.
The Macintosh design was influential, and its success led many other vendors to begin producing mice or including them with their other computer products. The widespread adoption of graphical user interfaces in the 1980s and 1990s made mice indispensable for computer use. By 2000, Dataquest estimated that $1.5 billion worth of mice were sold worldwide every year.
Applications of mice in user interfaces
Usually, the mouse is used to control the motion of a cursor in two dimensions in a graphical user interface. Objects, such as files, programs, or actions, are represented visually by pictures called icons and buttons; the mouse cursor can be used to select or activate such items by moving the cursor over the picture and pressing one of the mouse buttons. For example, a text file might be represented by a picture of a piece of notebook paper, and clicking on this icon might cause a text editing program to open the file in a new window. (See also point and click.)
Mice can also be used gesturally---that is, a stylized motion of the mouse cursor itself can be used as a form of input. In a gestural interface, a particular "gesture" (stylized motion) may be mapped to an action: for example, in a drawing program, moving the mouse in a rapid "x" motion over a shape might delete the shape.
Gestural interfaces are rarer, and often harder to use, than plain pointing and clicking, because they require more fine motor control of the user. However, a few gestural conventions have become widespread, including the drag and drop gesture, in which:
This motion is commonly used to move the item from one location to another---the item is "dragged" from its old location and "dropped" in its new one. For example, a user might drag and drop a picture of a file from a folder onto a picture of a trash can, indicating that the file should be deleted.
- the user presses the mouse button while the mouse cursor is over an object,
- then holds down the button while moving the cursor to a different location,
- and finally releases the mouse button.
Other uses of the mouse's input are common in special application domains. In interactive three-dimensional graphics, the mouse's motion is often directly translated into changes in the virtual camera's orientation. For example, in the Quake computer game, the mouse is usually used to control the direction in which the player's "head" faces: moving the mouse up will cause the player to look up, revealing the view above the player's head.
When mice have more than one button, software may assign different functions to each button. Often, the leftmost button on the mouse will select items, and the rightmost button will bring up a menu of alternative actions applicable to that item. For example, on platforms with more than one button, the Mozilla web browser will follow a link in response to a left button click, and will bring up a menu of alternative actions for that link in response to a right button click.
One button or two?
The issue of whether a mouse should have exactly one button or more than one has attracted a surprising amount of controversy. From the first Macintosh onward, Apple always shipped computers with a single-button mouse, whereas most other platforms used a multiple-button mouse. Apple and its advocates claim that single-button mice are more efficient, and that multiple-button mice are confusing for novice users. The original Macintosh user interface was designed so that all functions were available to a single button mouse.
Advocates of multiple-button mice point out that the lack of additional mouse buttons often leads to clumsy workarounds in interfaces where more than one action may be useful for a given object. These workarounds include the following:
Studies have found all of the above less usable than additional mouse buttons for experienced users. Today, many widely used Apple software packages, including web browsers and graphics editing programs, use one or more of the above workarounds. Critics of single-button mice point to these facts as evidence that mice should have more than one button.
- double-click
- A "double-click" is when the user presses the button twice in quick succession. This is mapped to a separate action than a single click. For example, in the original Macintosh Finder, the user single-clicked to select a file, and double-clicked in order to open that file. Usability studies have found that the double-click is confusing and hard to use---for example, users with poor motor skills may not perform the second click fast enough, so that the action is interpreted as two single clicks rather than a double click. However, virtually all modern interfaces require the user to double click even if he or she has a two-button mouse, eliminating any advantage.
- press-and-hold
- In a "press-and-hold", the user presses and hold the single button, and after a certain period, the button press is not perceived as a single click but as a separate action. On Macintosh platforms, Netscape used press-and-hold to substitute for a second mouse button. This has two drawbacks: first, as with double-clicking, a slow user may press-and-hold inadvertently. Second, the user must wait while the software detects that the click is actually a press-and-hold. Furthermore, the remedies for these two drawbacks conflict with each other: the longer the lag time, the more the user must wait; and the shorter the lag time, the more likely it is that some user will accidentally press-and-hold when meaning to click.
- key-and-click
- Finally, the user may be required to hold down a key on the keyboard while pressing the button. This has the disadvantage that it requires that both the user's hands be engaged. It also requires that the user do two actions on completely separate devices in concert: pressing a key on the keyboard while pressing a button on the mouse.
See also
- Trackball.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Computer mouse."
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
For the computer peripheral, see computer mouse.A mouse (pl. mice) is a small mammal of the order Rodentia.
Any one of numerous species of small rodents belonging to the genus Mus and various related genera of the family Muridæ. The common house mouse (Mus musculus) is found in nearly all countries. The American white-footed mouse (Hesperomys peromyscus), and the deer mouse (Hesperomys leucopus) sometimes live in houses. These species of mice live commensally with humans.
Mice are popular as pets; special varieties of mice, especially albino ones, are also bred as laboratory specimens. However, mice can also be harmful pests, damaging and eating crops and spreading diseases through their parasites and feces. The domestication of cats is thought to have been for their predation of mice and their relatives, the rats.
Famous cartoon mice include: Mickey Mouse, Jerry of Tom and Jerry, Pinky and the Brain, and Itchy of Itchy and Scratchy, a show-within-a-show on The Simpsons. See also List of fictional mice.
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Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Mouse."
| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
MOUSE | English | Minimum Orbital Unmanned Satellite of Earth | Transportation |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
Synonyms: MouseSynonyms: creep (v), pussyfoot (v), sneak (v), steal (v). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Deception | Snare, trap, pitfall, decoy, gin; springe, springle; noose, hoot; bait, decoy-duck, tub to the whale, baited trap, guet-a-pens; cobweb, net, meshes, toils, mouse trap, birdlime; dionaea, Venus's flytrap; ambush; trapdoor, sliding panel, false bottom; spring-net, spring net, spring gun, mask, masked battery; mine; flytrap; green goods; panel house. |
Desire | Adjective: desirous; desiring; Verb: inclined; (willing); partial to; fain, wishful, optative; anxious, wistful, curious; at a loss for, sedulous, solicitous. craving, hungry, sharp-set, peckish, ravening, with an empty stomach, esurient, lickerish, thirsty, athirst, parched with thirst, pinched with hunger, famished, dry, drouthy; hungry as a hunter, hungry as a hawk, hungry as a horse, hungry as a church mouse, hungry as a bear. |
Disappointment | Phrase: the mountain labored and brought forth a mouse; parturiunt montes; nascitur ridiculus mus; diis aliter visum, the bubble burst; one's countenance falling. |
Excitability | Easy-going, peaceful, placid, calm; quiet as a mouse; tranquil, serene; cool as a cucumber, cool as a custard; undemonstrative. |
Inquiry | Seek a clue, seek a clew; hunt, track, trail, mouse, dodge, trace; follow the trail, follow the scent; pursue; beat up one's quarters; fish for; feel for; (experiment). |
Littleness | Animalcule, monad, mite, insect, emmet, fly, midge, gnat, shrimp, minnow, worm, maggot, entozoon; bacteria; infusoria; microzoa; phytozoaria; microbe; grub; tomtit, runt, mouse, small fry; millet seed, mustard seed; barleycorn; pebble, grain of sand; molehill, button, bubble. |
Poverty | Adjective: poor, indigent; poverty-stricken; badly off, poorly off, ill off; poor as a rat, poor as a church mouse, poor as a Job; fortuneless, dowerless, moneyless, penniless; unportioned, unmoneyed; impecunious; out of money, out of cash, short of money, short of cash; without a rap, not worth a rap;(money); qui n'a pas le sou, out of pocket, hard up; out at elbows, out at heels; seedy, bare-footed; beggarly, beggared; fleeced, stripped; bereft, bereaved; reduced; homeless. |
Quiescence | Adjective: quiescent, still; motionless, moveless; fixed; stationary; immotile; at rest at a stand, at a standstill, at anchor; stock, still; standing still; Verb: sedentary, untraveled, stay-at-home; becalmed, stagnant, quiet; unmoved, undisturbed, unruffled; calm, restful; cataleptic; immovable; (stable); sleeping; (inactive); silent; still as a statue, still as a post, still as a mouse, still as death; vegetative, vegetating. |
Quiet, tranquility, calm; repose; peace; dead calm, anticyclone; statue-like repose; silence; not a breath of air, not a mouse stirring; sleep; (inactivity). | |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | The second mouse fought until he churned the cream into butter and walked out Amen (Catch Me If You Can; writing credit: Frank Abagnale Jr.; Stan Redding) That's a smart mouse, Del, he's like a circus mouse (The Green Mile; writing credit: Frank Darabont) What kind of a Mickey Mouse outfit would name their team The Ducks (Space Jam; writing credit: Leonardo Benvenuti; Steve Rudnick) 'cause you're a mouse. (Stuart Little; writing credit: M. Night Shyamalan) Stop playing cat and mouse with me. If you (And Then There Were None; writing credit: Agatha Christie; Erich Kröhnke) | |
Lyrics | Just slide your little mouse around (Www.memory; performing artist: Alan Jackson) He's getting rather old, but he's a good mouse. (BIKE; performing artist: Pink Floyd) I know a mouse, and he hasn't got a house (BIKE; performing artist: Pink Floyd) | |
Clever | When a mouse laughs at a cat, there's usually a hole nearby. (references; author: Arabian Proverb) An elephant is a mouse built to government specifications. (references; author: unknown) The early bird gets the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese. (references; author: unknown) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Big Soft Nelly Mrs. Mouse (1971) The Mouse Factory (1971) Mouse On the Mayflower (1968) Max the 2000-Year-Old Mouse (1967) That Mouse (1967) | |
Song Titles | Pepino The Italian Mouse (performing artist: Lou Monte) Mickey Mouse March (performing artist: Mickey Mouse Club) The Mouse (performing artist: Soupy Sales) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Shows photo of lab mouse with cancer tumors. Credit: Unknown photographer/artist. |  | Using recombinant DNA technology, a transgenic mouse has been engineered whose bone marrow is protected from the toxic effects of chemotherapy by expression of the MDR 1 gene. This animal system allows rapid screening of drugs which inhibit the multidrug transporter and heralds a new era of using transgenic animals for pharmacologic screening. Multidrug resistance resulting from expression of an energy-dependent drug efflux pump encoded by the human MDR gene is a major impediment to effective cancer therapy. Credit: Jeannie Kelly (artist). |
 | Photograph of deer mouse (Peromyscus maniculatus), the major carrier of Sin Nombre virus, which is one of the hantaviruses that causes hantavirus pulmonary syndrome in humans. Credit: CDC. | _thumb.jpg) | Dermis of C57Bl/6 mouse shows Schistosoma mansoni schistosomulum and a diffuse eosinophil-rich inflammatory cell infiltrate 12 hrs post exposure to normal S. mansoni cercariae. Histopathology, parasite. Credit: CDC. |
 | Toxoplasma gondii in mouse ascitic fluid. Smear. Parasite. Credit: CDC. |  | Histopathology of Acanthamoeba polyphaga infection in mouse brain. Ameba, parasite. Credit: CDC. |
 | Smear of exudate showing spherules of Coccidioides immitis. Experimental infection of mouse with soil sample. Credit: CDC. |  | 3-D image from NOAA Exclusive Economic Zone Mapping Project Mitchell Dome in center of image Very similar to Mickey Mouse appearance Sometimes referred to as "Mickey Mouse Domes". Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |
 | Narragansett Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve White-footed mouse - Peromyscus leucopus. This mouse is a prey species of owls - especially screech owls and barred owls. Unfortunately, this small rhodent is also an important host in the life cycle of the deer tick and the spread of Lyme disease. Credit: National Estuarine Research Reserve System (NERR). |  | Northern Spotted Owl with a mouse. Credit: D. Huntington. |
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| "My mouse" by Boris Kukec Commentary: "This is my mouse." | "Mouse" by David Solodukho Commentary: "Microsoft Mouse." |
Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers. | |
| Author | Quotation |
Aesop | A huge gap appeared in the side of the mountain. At last a tiny mouse came forth. |
Arabian Proverb | When a mouse laughs at a cat, there's usually a hole nearby. |
Ronald Reagan | Today, if you invent a better mousetrap, the government comes along with a better mouse. |
Titus Maccius Plautus | Consider the little mouse, how sagacious an animal it is which never entrusts its life to one hole only. |
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| Title | Author | Quote |
Alice in Wonderland | Carroll, Lewis | The Mouse gave a sudden leap out of the water, and seemed to quiver all over with fright |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | He thought himself stronger than he was, and believed he could play mouse with a lion |
Time Enough for Love | Robert Heinlein | An elephant is a mouse built to government specifications |
Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | A dust settled on the floors, and only mouse and weasel and cat tracks disturbed it. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | You See a Mouse in Your House. (references) | |
Developing transgenic mouse models for melanoma. (references) | ||
LCMV is naturally spread by the common house mouse, Mus musculus. (references) | ||
Business | Computer casings, microphones, speakers, mouse and other related hardware are imported from Taiwan, Korea, Malaysia and other Asian countries. (references) | |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | HOUSE, n. A hollow edifice erected for the habitation of man, rat, mouse, beelte, cockroach, fly, mosquito, flea, bacillus and microbe. House of Correction, a place of reward for political and personal service, and for the detention of offenders and appropriations. House of God, a building with a steeple and a mortgage on it. House-dog, a pestilent beast kept on domestic premises to insult persons passing by and appal the hardy visitor. House-maid, a youngerly person of the opposing sex employed to be variously disagreeable and ingeniously unclean in the station in which it has pleased God to place her. |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Mouse" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 95.70% of the time. "Mouse" is used about 1,882 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 95.7% | 1,801 | 4,698 |
| Noun (proper) | 4.3% | 81 | 36,835 |
| Total | 100.00% | 1,882 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "mouse" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Mouse | Last name | 130 | 55,328 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
| The following table summarizes names derived from the word "mouse". | |||
| Name | Gender | Language | Meaning |
| Beth-gader | N/A | Biblical | A house for a mouse |
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| Country | Name |
| USA | Macheezmo Mouse Restaurants, Inc. |
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Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.
Expressions using "mouse": american harvest mouse ♦ Ay mouse ♦ baby mouse ♦ be as poor as a church mouse ♦ beige mouse ♦ cactus mouse ♦ chimeric mouse ♦ church mouse ♦ Cotton mouse ♦ Deer mouse ♦ Desert mouse ♦ diet induced obese mouse ♦ DIO mouse ♦ drunk mouse syndrome ♦ european wood mouse ♦ field mouse ♦ flying mouse ♦ grasshopper mouse ♦ harvest mouse ♦ hazel mouse ♦ hispid pocket mouse ♦ house mouse ♦ hungry as a church mouse ♦ jumping mouse ♦ kangaroo mouse ♦ lethal yellow mouse ♦ marsupial mouse ♦ meadow jumping mouse ♦ meadow mouse ♦ mexican pocket mouse ♦ Mickey Mouse ♦ mickey mouse program ♦ mighty Mouse ♦ mind mouse ♦ Minnie Mouse ♦ mouse about ♦ mouse ahead ♦ mouse around ♦ mouse arrest ♦ mouse belt ♦ mouse bird ♦ mouse buttock ♦ mouse button ♦ mouse car ♦ mouse click ♦ mouse deer ♦ mouse droppings ♦ mouse ear ♦ mouse ear hawkweed ♦ mouse eared chickweed ♦ mouse elbow ♦ mouse galago ♦ mouse genome ♦ mouse hare ♦ mouse hawk ♦ mouse lemur ♦ mouse mat ♦ mouse nest ♦ mouse over ♦ mouse owl ♦ mouse pad ♦ mouse piece ♦ mouse sight ♦ mouse trails ♦ mouse trap ♦ new World mouse ♦ New Zealand obese mouse ♦ nipple mouse ♦ not a mouse stirring ♦ nude mouse ♦ NZO mouse ♦ ob mouse ♦ obese mouse ♦ opossum mouse ♦ optical mouse ♦ pine mouse ♦ plains pocket mouse ♦ play cat and mouse with smb. ♦ pocket mouse ♦ poor as a church mouse ♦ pouched mouse ♦ pygmy mouse ♦ quiet as a mouse ♦ rice mouse ♦ sable mouse ♦ sand mouse ♦ sea mouse ♦ silky pocket mouse ♦ snow mouse ♦ Tree mouse ♦ vesper mouse ♦ wandering mouse ♦ water mouse ♦ white mouse ♦ wood mouse ♦ yellow agouti mouse. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "mouse": mouse-alert, mouse-and-icons, mouse-and-windows, mouse-based, mouse-brown, mouse-cell, mouse-colored, mouse-coloured, mouse-controlled, mouse-driven, Mouse-ear, Mouse-ear chickweed, Mouse-ear cress, mouse-ear hawkweed, mouse-eared, mouse-eared bat, mouse-eaten, mouse-faced, mouse-grey, mouse-hole, mouse-human, mouse-in-a-blender, mouse-like, mouse-mats, mouse-operated, mouse-pounce, mouse-related, mouse-sensitive, mouse-sized, mouse-tests, mouse-tooth forceps, mouse-trap, mouse-worth. | |
Ending with "mouse": anti-mouse. | |
Containing "mouse": cat-and-mouse-whipped, window-icon-mouse-pop-up. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
mouse | 5,274 | mouse picture | 268 |
mickey mouse | 5,095 | mouse house | 267 |
mouse pad | 1,304 | micky mouse | 247 |
mouse pointer | 1,222 | mickey mouse wallpaper | 238 |
modest mouse | 1,193 | free mouse pointer | 223 |
of mouse and man | 943 | pet mouse | 218 |
mickey mouse picture | 832 | logitech mouse | 201 |
wireless mouse | 682 | microsoft mouse | 197 |
computer mouse | 673 | field mouse | 161 |
minnie mouse | 594 | free mouse pad | 155 |
mouse driver | 496 | custom mouse pad | 155 |
mighty mouse | 480 | ghost mouse | 149 |
mouse the trap | 385 | mouse control | 147 |
mouse cursor | 373 | mickey mouse pic | 142 |
mickey mouse club | 364 | mickey mouse watch | 141 |
optical mouse | 358 | logitech mouse driver | 139 |
mouse pad maphack | 355 | ergonomic mouse | 133 |
modest mouse lyrics | 317 | eek a mouse | 133 |
mickey mouse quot quot | 305 | after mickey mouse named who | 132 |
mouse trap car | 274 | mouse icon | 129 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "mouse"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Afrikaans | muis. (various references) | |
Albanian | mi (campagnol, mi, rat). (various references) | |
Arabic | فأر (rat), إمرأة (baby, dame, sister, woman). (various references) | |
Asturian | mure. (various references) | |
Aymara | achacu. (various references) | |
Bemba | koswe. (various references) | |
Blackfoot | kaanaisskiinaa. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | следя (gumshoe, keep an eye on, observe, ride herd on, shadow, stag, tail, track, trail, watch), мишка, ловя мишки, дебна (ambush, be on the lurk, be on the prowl, prowl, shadow, skulk, slink about, sneak, stalk, trail, watch, waylay). (various references) | |
Catalan | ratolí. (various references) | |
Cebuano | ilaga. (various references) | |
Chamorro | cha'ka. (various references) | |
Chinese | 老鼠 (rat). (various references) | |
Cornish | logosen. (various references) | |
Czech | myš, bázlivec (coward). (various references) | |
Danish | mus (muridal, rats and mice). (various references) | |
Dutch | muis (ball, ball of the thumb). (various references) | |
Ecuadorian Quechua | ucucha. (various references) | |
Esperanto | muso. (various references) | |
Faeroese | mús. (various references) | |
Farsi | موش گرفتن (Rat), جستجوکردن (Attempt, Comb, Fish, Grub, Look, Quest, Ransack, Scour, Search, Seek, Sick). (various references) | |
Finnish | hiiri. (various references) | |
French | souris (common mouse, house mouse). (various references) | |
Frisian | mûs. (various references) | |
German | Maus (mouse [pl: mice]). (various references) | |
Greek | ποντίκι (biceps, mouse (mice)). (various references) | |
Hawaiian | mi. (various references) | |
Hebrew | עכבר. (various references) | |
Hungarian | egér (mice), félénk ember (mice, milquetoast, wimp). (various references) | |
Icelandic | mús. (various references) | |
Indonesian | mencit, tikus (rat). (various references) | |
Inuktitut | avingaq. (various references) | |
Irish | luch. (various references) | |
Italian | topo (rat), sorcio. (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 鼠 (dark gray, rat, slate color), 二十日鼠 , マイコプラズマ肺炎 (at one's own pace, budget reduction, Die Meistersinger, maestro, mild, mild inflation, mile, miler, miles, milestone, mime, mind, mind-control, mine, minor, minor change, Minor League, minor level, minority, minus, mound, mount, mountain, mountain music, mounting, mouse unit, mouth, mouthpiece, movingicon, my pace, mycoplasma pneumonia, negative image, one'shome, one'shouse, personal computer), screwdriverdriver), something that a person is currently obsessed with or fascinated by), 廿日鼠 . (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | マウス (mouth), ねずみ (dark gray, rat, slate color), ねず (dark gray, rat, slate color), はつかねずみ. (various references) | |
Kongo | mpuku. (various references) | |
Korean | 쥐 (mice, rat, RATS). (various references) | |
Lombard | ratt. (various references) | |
Macedonian | glusec. (various references) | |
Malay | tikus. (various references) | |
Manx | lugheraght (mousing), lugh, lonnag. (various references) | |
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