mouse
/maʊs/
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.31 in modern English
Meaning
noun
Any mammal of the many rodent families (especially Muridae) that have a small body and a long tail.
noun
Any mammal of the many rodent families (especially Muridae) that have a small body and a long tail.
noun
Any mammal of the many rodent families (especially Muridae) that have a small body and a long tail.
noun
Any mammal of the many rodent families (especially Muridae) that have a small body and a long tail.
Obsolete
noun
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.
noun
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.
Example Sentences
- "Near-synonyms: murine, murid, vole (all parasynonymous with this broad sense)"
- "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."
- "A person smeared with the excrement of a mouse was rendered impotent, according to Pliny the Elder."
- "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."
- "She's probably hiding in her room, she always does when we have company. She's our little mouse."
- "Let the bloat King tempt you again to bed, / Pinch wanton on your cheek, call you his mouse"
Etymology
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Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /maʊs/
- British English: /maʊs/