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MOUSE
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Irregular inflected form: mice
I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Any of numerous small rodents typically resembling diminutive rats having pointed snouts and small ears on elongated bodies with slender usually hairless tails
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("mouse" is a kind of...):
gnawer; rodent (relatively small placental mammals having a single pair of constantly growing incisor teeth specialized for gnawing)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "mouse"):
house mouse; Mus musculus (brownish-grey Old World mouse now a common household pest worldwide)
harvest mouse; Micromyx minutus (small reddish-brown Eurasian mouse inhabiting e.g. cornfields)
field mouse; fieldmouse (any nocturnal Old World mouse of the genus Apodemus inhabiting woods and fields and gardens)
nude mouse (a mouse with a genetic defect that prevents them from growing hair and also prevents them from immunologically rejecting human cells and tissues; widely used in preclinical trials)
wood mouse (any of various New World woodland mice)
Derivation:
mousey; mousy (infested with mice)
Sense 2
Meaning:
A hand-operated electronic device that controls the coordinates of a cursor on your computer screen as you move it around on a pad; on the bottom of the device is a ball that rolls on the surface of the pad
Example:
a mouse takes much more room than a trackball
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("mouse" is a kind of...):
electronic device (a device that accomplishes its purpose electronically)
Meronyms (parts of "mouse"):
mouse button (a push button on the mouse)
Derivation:
mouse (manipulate the mouse of a computer)
Sense 3
Meaning:
Person who is quiet or timid
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("mouse" is a kind of...):
individual; mortal; person; somebody; someone; soul (a human being)
Derivation:
mousey; mousy (quiet and timid and ineffectual)
Sense 4
Meaning:
A swollen bruise caused by a blow to the eye
Synonyms:
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Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Hypernyms ("mouse" is a kind of...):
bruise; contusion (an injury that doesn't break the skin but results in some discoloration)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Manipulate the mouse of a computer
Classified under:
Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging
Hypernyms (to "mouse" is one way to...):
manipulate (hold something in one's hands and move it)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s
Derivation:
mouse (a hand-operated electronic device that controls the coordinates of a cursor on your computer screen as you move it around on a pad; on the bottom of the device is a ball that rolls on the surface of the pad)
Sense 2
Meaning:
To go stealthily or furtively
Example:
..stead of sneaking around spying on the neighbor's house
Synonyms:
creep; mouse; pussyfoot; sneak
Classified under:
Verbs of walking, flying, swimming
Hypernyms (to "mouse" is one way to...):
walk (use one's feet to advance; advance by steps)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s PP
Context examples:
White adipose tissue showed the greatest number of changes in response to exercise in the obese pregnant mouse, being restored to a state similar to that seen in the tissue of non-obese mothers.
(Exercise in pregnancy improves health of obese mothers by restoring their tissues, University of Cambridge)
By this criterion many mouse adenomas could be assigned to adenocarcinomas.
(Adenoma of the Mouse Pulmonary System, NCI Thesaurus/MMHCC)
In a study of mice, the researchers found that their strongest peptide could completely eliminate Pseudomonas aeruginosa, a strain of bacteria that causes respiratory and other infections and is resistant to most antibiotics.
(Venom of Wasp, Bee Repurposed as Antibiotic Drug, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
A carcinoma that arises from the intestinal tract of the mouse and has spread to other anatomic sites.
(Metastatic Carcinoma of the Mouse Intestinal Tract, NCI Thesaurus)
A mouse monoclonal antibody (MoAb) with binding specificity for the human melanoma-associated cell surface marker p97.
(Monoclonal Antibody 8.2, NCI Thesaurus)
You can’t sit there and play with me like a cat with a mouse.
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Perhaps from mice, to which she had a great objection.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
A Fab fragment of the mouse monoclonal antibody (MoAb) 48.7.
(Monoclonal Antibody 48.7 F(ab), NCI Thesaurus)
I desired a lock for my door, to prevent rats and mice from coming in.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
Type C retroviruses that cause leukemia in mice.
(Mouse Leukemia Virus, NCI Thesaurus)
