mouse

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义
英 /maʊs/    美 /maʊs/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Any mammal of the many rodent families (especially Muridae) that have a small body and a long tail. broadly
    — Near-synonyms: murine, murid, vole (all parasynonymous with this broad sense)
  2. 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. broadly
    — 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.
  3. Any mammal of the many rodent families (especially Muridae) that have a small body and a long tail.; A quiet or shy person. broadly,figuratively
    — She's probably hiding in her room, she always does when we have company. She's our little mouse.
  4. Any mammal of the many rodent families (especially Muridae) that have a small body and a long tail.; A familiar term of endearment. broadly,figuratively,obsolete
    — Let the bloat King tempt you again to bed, / Pinch wanton on your cheek, call you his mouse
  5. 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.
    — My mouse needs new batteries.
  6. 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.; An on-screen pointer controlled by a mouse device. broadly
    — Move the mouse over the icon.
  7. A facial hematoma or black eye.
  8. 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.
  9. A match used in firing guns or blasting.
  10. A small model of (a fragment of) Zermelo-Fraenkel set theory with desirable properties (depending on the context).
  11. A small cushion for a woman's hair. historical
  12. Part of a hind leg of beef, next to the round.
动词 v.
  1. To move cautiously or furtively, in the manner of a mouse (the rodent) (frequently used in the phrasal verb to mouse around). intransitive
  2. To hunt or catch mice (the rodents), usually of cats. intransitive
  3. To close the mouth of a hook by a careful binding of marline or wire. transitive
    — Captain Higgins moused the hook with a bit of marline to prevent the block beckets from falling out under slack.
  4. To navigate by means of a computer mouse. intransitive
    — I had just moused to the File menu and the pull-down menu repeated the menu bar's hue a dozen shades lighter.
  5. To tear, as a cat devours a mouse. nonce-word,obsolete,transitive
    — [Death] mousing the flesh of men.

词形变化

mice plural mouses plural mowse alternative,obsolete mouses present,singular,third-person mousing participle,present moused participle,past moused past mowse alternative,obsolete

词汇关系

上位词
rodent
下位词
birch mouse bristly mouse cactus mouse California mouse church mouse Cypriot mouse deer mouse dormouse fancy mouse fat mouse field mouse harvest mouse hopping mouse house mouse Java mouse-deer kangaroo mouse Malagasy mouse meadow jumping mouse mesquite mouse mouse-goat mouse-like hamster mouse stock New World mouse Old World mouse optical mouse pouched mouse scorpion mouse single-striped grass mouse sleep like a mouse southern grasshopper mouse spiny mouse spiny pocket mouse St Kilda field mouse Taiwan field mouse vesper mouse woolly mouse woolly mouse opossum yellow-necked field mouse zebra mouse
衍生词
a cat in gloves catches no mice anonymouse antimouse Arctic mouse-ear are you a man or a mouse Baker's small-toothed harvest mouse bastard big-footed mouse big-footed mouse bit by a barn mouse brush-furred mouse brush-tailed mouse cat and mouse cat-and-mouse churchmouse city mouse clit mouse cotton mouse Count Branicki's mouse country mouse creepmouse Darling Downs hopping mouse demouse desert mouse Doogie mouse dormouse dust mouse fieldmouse flindermouse flitter-mouse flittermouse flying mouse Formosan wood mouse giant mouse lemur glacier mouse grasshopper mouse greater big-footed mouse greater mouse-eared bat hog mouse intermouse intramouse is there a mouse in your pocket joint mouse jumping mouse knockout mouse lab mouse laboratory mouse left-mouse Madame Berthe's mouse lemur marsupial mouse meadow mouse mechanical mouse mer-mouse mermouse mice-less micromouse Middle Mouse Mitchell's hopping mouse Mosley mouseable mousable mouse belt mousebird mouse bungee mouseclick mouse click mouse-colored mouse-colored antshrike mouse-deer mouse deer mousedom mouse-ear mouse-eared mouse-eared bat mouse-ear hawkweed mousefall mousefish mousefucker mouse gun mouse-hearted mousehole mousehood mouse jiggler mouse jiggling Mouseketeer mousekin mousekind mouse lemur mouseless mouselet mouselike mouseling mouselook mouse mat mouse melon mouse mill mouseness mouse opossum mouseover mouse-over mousepad mouse pad mouse pointer mouse potato mousepox mouseprint mouse print mouseproof mouser mousery mousesicle mouse-sight mouse slip mouse spider mousetail mousetrap mouse-warbler mouse wheel mousework mousie mousy mute as a mouse nipple mouse nonmouse northern birch mouse northern grasshopper mouse nouse oldfield mouse oncomouse painted bristly mouse Petter's big-footed mouse play cat and mouse pocket mouse poor as a church mouse premouse quiet as a church mouse rell-mouse reremouse ricefield mouse right-mouse rock mouse Rudd's mouse sable mouse sand mouse sea mouse seamouse sheath-tailed mouse shrewmouse striped field mouse strong enough to trot a mouse on sugar mouse supermouse the best laid plans of mice and men go oft astray the best laid plans of mice and men often go awry the second mouse gets the cheese timid as a mouse vertical mouse water mouse when the cat's away the mice will play white-footed mouse wood mouse woodmouse yellow-necked mouse you got a mouse in your pocket you got a mouse in your purse quiet as a mouse
相关词
muss muscle mussel
并列词
rat joystick trackpad trackball pointing stick

词源

词源 1
Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *múHs
Proto-Germanic *mūs
Proto-West Germanic *mūs
Old English mūs
Middle English mous
English mouse
Inherited from Middle English mous, from Old English mūs, from Proto-West Germanic *mūs, from Proto-Germanic *mūs, from Proto-Indo-European *múHs.
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.
词源 2
Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *múHs
Proto-Germanic *mūs
Proto-West Germanic *mūs
Old English mūs
Middle English mous
English mouse
Inherited from Middle English mous, from Old English mūs, from Proto-West Germanic *mūs, from Proto-Germanic *mūs, from Proto-Indo-European *múHs.
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.
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