Look up: mouse

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   Mouse
   Mouse is a general term applied to small rodents, particularly those of the muridae family.
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   MOUSE
   MOUSE is an abbreviation for Minimum Orbital Unmanned Satellite of Earth
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   Mouse
   Mouse is Black-American slang for 'one's pocket'
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   Mouse
   An input device designed to increase the hand-eye coordination of the user. Also, the required subject of 40 to 50% of User Friendly documentation.
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   mouse
   [n] - a hand-operated electronic device that controls the coordinates of a cursor on your computer screen as you move it around on a pad 2. [n] - any of numerous small rodents typically resembling diminutive rats having pointed snouts and small ears on elongated bodies with slender usually hairless tails 3. [v] - manipulate the mouse of a computer
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   mouse
   An input device that controls an on-screen pointer.
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   Mouse
   The device that controls the on-screen pointer, invented by Apple in 1984. The Amiga uses the 2 and 3 button models plugged into a special Mouse port at the back of the machine. PC mice can be used with special interfaces or software drivers.
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   Mouse
   A device created by Xerox and copied by Apple for their Lisa system. The mouse is represented on screen by a small pointer.
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   Mouse
   An input device to control the cursor (pointer) on the screen. This is used in many different ways depending on the program you are running. Generally they are all associated with 'pointing' at something on the screen and clicking one or more of the buttons.
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    Mouse
    A handheld pointing device using either mechanical motion or special optical techniques to convert the movement of the user's hand into movements of the cursor on the screen - technically known as the GUI, the Graphical User Interface. Generally fitted with one, two or three buttons and used on a mouse pad.
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    mouse
    (hardware, graphics) The most commonly used computer pointing device, first introduced by Douglas Engelbart in 1968. The mouse is a device used to manipulate an on-screen pointer that's normally shaped like an arrow. With the mouse in hand, the computer user can select, move, and change items on the screen. A conventional roller-ball mouse is slid...
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    Mouse
    A mighty small macro language developed by Peter Grogono in 1975. ['Mouse, A Language for Microcomputers', P. Grogono (grogono@concour.cs.concordia.ca) Petrocelli Books, 1983]. (1994-10-31)
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    mouse
    a hand held locator operated by moving it on a surface Category: Automation (includes telecommunications and computers) • a bank of pressure-measuring tubes used to measure pressures in a flow,especially the total pressures,simultaneously at different places near a solid surface Category: Standards, measures and testing
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    Mouse
    Mouse (mous) noun ; plural Mice (mīs). [ Middle English mous , mus , Anglo-Saxon mūs , plural mȳs ; akin to Dutch muis , German maus , Old High German & Icelandic mūs , Danish muus , Swedish mus , Russian muishe , Latin mus , Greek my^s , Sanskrit mūsh< ...
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    Mouse
    Mouse intransitive verb [ imperfect & past participle Moused ; present participle & verbal noun Mousing .] 1. To watch for and catch mice. 2. To watch for or pursue anything in a sly manner; to pry about, on the lookout for something.
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    Mouse
    Mouse transitive verb 1. To tear, as a cat devours a mouse. [ Obsolete] '[ Death] mousing the flesh of men.' Shak. 2. (Nautical) To furnish with a mouse; to secure by means of a mousing. See Mouse , noun , 2.
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    mouse
    Origin: OE. Mous, mus, AS. Mus, pl. M<ymac/s; akin to D. Muis, G. Maus, OHG. & Icel. Mus, Dan. Muus, Sw. Mus, Russ. Muishe, L. Mus, Gr. My^s, Skr. Mush mouse, mush to steal. 277. Cf. Muscle, Musk. ... 1. <zoology> Any one of numerous species of small rodents belonging to the genus Mus and various related genera of the family Muridae. Th ...
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    mouse
    computer mouse noun 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; `a mouse takes much more room than a trackball`
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    mouse
    noun any of numerous small rodents typically resembling diminutive rats having pointed snouts and small ears on elongated bodies with slender usually hairless tails
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    mouse
    noun person who is quiet or timid
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    Mouse
    A `mouse` (plural `mice`) is a rodent that belongs to one of numerous species of small mammals. The best known mouse species is the common house mouse (`Mus musculus`). It is found in nearly all countries and, as the laboratory mouse, serves as an important model organism in biology, and is also a popular pet. The American white-footed mouse (`Peromyscus leucopus`) and the deer mouse (`Peromyscus maniculatus`) also sometimes live in houses. These...
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    MOUSE
    `MOUSE` was founded in 1997 by entrepreneur Andrew Rasiej and Founding Executive Director Sarah Holloway. Along with leaders from the `high tech` community in New York City, MOUSE spearheaded the process of wiring public schools for Internet access in New York City. MOUSE`s first project brought over 200 volunteers together to wire Andrew Rasiej`s neighborhood high school, Washington Irving High School. Today, MOUSE pioneers innovative school p...
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    mouse
    (mous) a small rodent, various species of which are used in laboratory experiments. a small loose body. a computer pointing device.
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    Mouse
    • (n.) Same as 2d Mousing, 2. • (n.) A knob made on a rope with spun yarn or parceling to prevent a running eye from slipping. • (v. t.) To tear, as a cat devours a mouse. • (n.) Any one of numerous species of small rodents belonging to the genus Mus and various related genera of the family Muridae. The common house mouse (Mus m...
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    mouse
    (from the article `computer`) Mechanical mice and trackballs operate alike, using a rubber or rubber-coated ball that turns two shafts connected to a pair of encoders that measure ... American inventor whose work beginning in the 1950s led to his patent for the computer mouse, the development of the basic graphical user interface, ... ...
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