mouse meaning

Noun: mouse (mice)  maws

1. Any of numerous small rodents typically resembling diminutive rats having pointed snouts and small ears on elongated bodies with slender usually hairless tails 
2. A swollen bruise caused by a blow to the eye
   - shiner, black eye 
3. Person who is quiet or timid 
4. 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"
   - computer mouse

Verb: mouse  maws

1. To go stealthily or furtively
   - sneak, creep, pussyfoot 
2. Manipulate the mouse of a computer

Derived forms: mousing, moused, mouses, mice

See also: mousy

Type of: bruise, contusion, electronic device, gnawer, individual, manipulate, mortal, person, rodent, somebody, someone, soul, walk

Encyclopedia: Mouse

[British slang]
Noun. A female's sanitary tampon. From the vague physical similarities, i.e. having a body, tail, and from being white.

[Business]
noun [C] (plural mouses or mice //)

1

a small device that you move and press with your hand in order to perform actions on a computer screen:

You can sign up just by a click of the mouse.

2

a way of referring to a very small company that can create no new jobs ⇨ ELEPHANT, GAZELLE

[Electronics]
A pointing device commonly used with personal computers. It is about the size of a candy bar. The computer operator moves the display pointer or cursor by sliding the mouse on a flat surface. Functions and commands are executed by pressing a button (clicking) on the device.

[Medicine]
The common name for the species Mus musculus. n pl mice
1 : any of numerous small rodents with pointed snout, rather small ears, elongated body, and slender hairless or sparsely haired tail, including all the smaller members of the genus Mus (as the medically significant house mouse, M. musculus) and many members of other rodent genera and families having little more in common than their relatively small size
2 : a dark-colored swelling caused by a blow; specif : BLACK EYE

[Computer]
A mighty small macro language developed by Peter Grogono in 1975.

["Mouse, A Language for Microcomputers", P. Grogono

Examples

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1. he remained a mouse in public affairs.
2. the mouse never ventured far from its hole.
3. the mouse ran nimbly up the horse's leg.
4. they can grow in all mouse strain.
5. the cat sprang forward and caught the mouse.