mouse

CEFRA1

/maʊs/

noun

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In plain English

  1. 01

    noun

    A small animal with a pointed face and long tail.

  2. 02

    noun

    A device used to control a computer pointer.

Examples

  • Click on the printer icon with the mouse.

  • The mouse ran and the cat ran after him.

At a glance

Sits at A1 on the CEFR scale

Senses
5
Parts of speech
1
Citations
5
Synonyms
4

Also pronounced

  • /maʊz/
  • /mʌʊs/

Deep Dive

noun

Extra meanings

  1. Any mammal of the many rodent families (especially Muridae) that have a small body and a long tail., Such a rodent that is of the genus Mus.

  2. A rodent, typically having a small body, dark fur, and a long tail.

  3. Any mammal of the many rodent families (especially Muridae) that have a small body and a long tail.

More examples

In context

  • A mouse is a timid creature.

  • She's probably hiding in her room, she always does when we have company. She's our little mouse.

  • Near-synonyms: murine, murid, vole (all parasynonymous with this broad sense)

Synonyms

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Origin

noun

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 (Danish, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk, and Swedish mus, Faroese and Icelandic 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.