mouse

(Hong Kong Cantonese, computing) mouse (Classifier: 隻／只 c; 個／个 c)

/mɐu̯⁵⁵ siː³⁵/

/maːu̯⁵⁵ siː³⁵/

/mɐu̯⁵⁵ siː³⁵/

/maːu̯⁵⁵ siː³⁵/


mouse

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.

1892, Walter Besant, chapter II, in The Ivory Gate […], New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, […], →OCLC:

(informal) A member of the many small rodent and marsupial species resembling such a rodent.

move the mouse over the icon (that is, move the mouse so that the pointer moves over the icon)

(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) A facial hematoma or black eye.

(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.

Let the bloat King tempt you again to bed, / Pinch wanton on your cheek, call you his mouse

c. 1599–1602, William Shakespeare, Hamlet, act 3, scene 4:

(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.

Part of a hind leg of beef, next to the round.

en-noun

mouse (plural mice or (computing) mouses)

the best laid plans of mice and men go oft astray

the best laid plans of mice and men often go awry

→ Bengali: মাউস (maus)

→ Brazilian Portuguese: mouse

→ French: souris (semantic loan)

→ Georgian: მაუსი (mausi)

→ Italian: mouse

→ Japanese: マウス (mausu)

→ Korean: 마우스 (mauseu)

→ Romanian: mouse

→ Spanish: mouse

desc

→ Thai: เมาส์ (máo), เม้าส์ (máo)

→ Thai: เมาส์ (máo), เม้าส์ (máo)

→ Vietnamese: chuột (semantic loan)

老鼠

ló͘-chhír, ló͘-chhí, niáu-chhú, niáu-chhí, niáu-chhír

踎士

loaned from English, though more commonly simply written as mouse

From Middle English mous, from Old English mūs, from Proto-West Germanic *mūs, from Proto-Germanic *mūs, from Proto-Indo-European *muh₂s.
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.


mouse

(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. [from 12th c.]

Captain Higgins moused the hook with a bit of marline to prevent the block beckets from falling out under slack.

(transitive, nautical) To close the mouth of a hook by a careful binding of marline or wire.

I had just moused to the File menu and the pull-down menu repeated the menu bar's hue a dozen shades lighter.

Unlike the Flamenco work, the Relation Browser allows users to quickly explore a document space using dynamic queries issued by mousing over facet elements in the interface.

2009, Daniel Tunkelang, Faceted Search, page 35:

(intransitive, computing) To navigate by means of a computer mouse.

[Death] mousing the flesh of men.

c. 1596 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Life and Death of King Iohn”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene i]:

(obsolete, nonce word, transitive) To tear, as a cat devours a mouse.

en-verb

mouse (third-person singular simple present mouses, present participle mousing, simple past and past participle moused)

mouses (present singular third-person)
mousing (participle present)
moused (participle past)
moused (past)


mouse

(computing, computer hardware) mouse (for a PC)


mouse

(Brazil, computer hardware) mouse (input device used to move a pointer on the screen)

(Brazil, loosely) pointer; cursor (moving icon that indicates the position of the mouse)


mouse

mouse-uri (plural)
mouse (accusative indefinite nominative singular)
un mouse (accusative indefinite nominative singular)
mouse-ul (accusative definite nominative singular)
mouse-uri (accusative indefinite nominative plural)
niște mouse-uri (accusative indefinite nominative plural)
mouse-urile (accusative definite nominative plural)
mouse (dative genitive indefinite singular)
unui mouse (dative genitive indefinite singular)
mouse-ului (dative definite genitive singular)
mouse-uri (dative genitive indefinite plural)
unor mouse-uri (dative genitive indefinite plural)
mouse-urilor (dative definite genitive plural)
mouse-ule (singular vocative)
mouse-urilor (plural vocative)


mouse

(computing, chiefly Latin America) mouse (input device)

Unadapted borrowing from English mouse. Doublet of mur.