Mouse
noun
A small rodent that is often a type of pest in homes.
The cat chased the mouse around the house.
Often appears as...
- house mouse
- field mouse
noun
A small handheld device that you use to control the cursor on a computer screen.
He moved the mouse to click on the file.
Often appears as...
- computer mouse
- wireless mouse
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Technical
noun
A small, usually dark spot or lump, for example a bruise, knot or swelling.
She got a mouse under her eye from the baseball.
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Colloquial
verb
To hunt for or catch mice.
The cat loves to mouse in the barn.
Often appears as...
- mouse around
- mouse after
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Colloquial
noun
A quiet or timid person.
She's as quiet as a mouse.
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Disapproving
Idiomatic
noun
A small rodent that is often a type of pest in homes.
The cat chased the mouse around the house.
Often appears as...
- house mouse
- field mouse
noun
A small handheld device that you use to control the cursor on a computer screen.
He moved the mouse to click on the file.
Often appears as...
- computer mouse
- wireless mouse
Usage tips
Technical
noun
A small, usually dark spot or lump, for example a bruise, knot or swelling.
She got a mouse under her eye from the baseball.
Usage tips
Colloquial
verb
To hunt for or catch mice.
The cat loves to mouse in the barn.
Often appears as...
- mouse around
- mouse after
Usage tips
Colloquial
noun
A quiet or timid person.
She's as quiet as a mouse.
Usage tips
Disapproving
Idiomatic
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Pro Tip 1/2Pest association
A mouse can represent unwanted small problems; often disliked or wanted gone.
I need to get rid of these mice in the garage.
Pro Tip 2/2Living environments
Mice are adaptable, found in various places from fields to urban areas.
Mice thrive both in the city sewers and country barns.
Pro Tip 1/2Pest association
A mouse can represent unwanted small problems; often disliked or wanted gone.
I need to get rid of these mice in the garage.
Pro Tip 2/2Living environments
Mice are adaptable, found in various places from fields to urban areas.
Mice thrive both in the city sewers and country barns.
Pro Tip 1/2Pest association
A mouse can represent unwanted small problems; often disliked or wanted gone.
I need to get rid of these mice in the garage.
Pro Tip 2/2Living environments
Mice are adaptable, found in various places from fields to urban areas.
Mice thrive both in the city sewers and country barns.
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Evolution in a Big City
which will then change the shape and structure of the protein. If you change the structure of a protein, you often change something about what it does in the organism. Now if that change leads to a longer life or more babies for a mouse, something evolutionary biologists call fitness, then that single base-pair change will spread quickly in an urban population.
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Life lessons from a...
like the cover of a book to make the mouse and these were handles on my parents cabinets and I just painted them white and then like a friend of mine was doing a play he needed a floury so can you make a flower and I said yeah sure I don't know how but I will and I found that it was like a tennis ball and I covered it in a t-shirt and I put a
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Rescuing the UK's Rarest...
designed in such a way that they're big enough for things like mice and bowls to get through the gaps and i'm sure they're catching live prayer as well and that's really important because once a wildcat makes that first live kill it's a hunter from then on these guys really do hold on to predatory instincts quite quickly
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Inside your computer -...
Basically, it provides a way for the computer to interact with its environment. But it also acts like a buffer to keep the CPU from being overwhelmed by distractions. In this case, the I/O subsystem decides that your mouse click is pretty important so it generates an interrupt to the CPU.
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Could a blind eye...
travel to the back of the eye and rewire themselves into the brain. And now some researchers even think they've found the key to how this works with the help of one of two chemicals that create activity in the brain called glutamate and aminoadipate. In mouse eyes,
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Why do animals have such...
In this way, the environment shapes longevity. When it comes to size, it's often, but not always, the case that larger species have a longer lifespan than smaller ones. For instance, an elephant or whale will live much longer than a mouse, rat, or vole,
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Rodent Roommates PIPE...
and I can catch a mouse if they are out here. This is the urban part of my gradient, here in the St. Louis metro area. Here surrounded by buildings, there are still a lot of places for wildlife, like nuisance rodents,
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Electrical experiments...
and most will say that a mouse or even a small insect has a brain, but almost nobody says that a plant or a tree or a shrub has a brain. And so when you push -- because this could actually help describe a little bit
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How Do Cats Use Their...
and the whiskers spring back again, the mouse doesn't have a chance. Far thicker and longer than normal hairs whiskers also sit three times deeper in the skin where they attach to nerve endings,
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Let's talk about sex -...
Peace. Just peace. Maybe we will never know why, but of all the possible bodies that have appeared on this planet, it was this one, bilaterally symmetric, warm-blooded, bigger than a mouse,
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Evolution in a Big City
which will then change the shape and structure of the protein. If you change the structure of a protein, you often change something about what it does in the organism. Now if that change leads to a longer life or more babies for a mouse, something evolutionary biologists call fitness, then that single base-pair change will spread quickly in an urban population.
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Life lessons from a...
like the cover of a book to make the mouse and these were handles on my parents cabinets and I just painted them white and then like a friend of mine was doing a play he needed a floury so can you make a flower and I said yeah sure I don't know how but I will and I found that it was like a tennis ball and I covered it in a t-shirt and I put a
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Rescuing the UK's Rarest...
designed in such a way that they're big enough for things like mice and bowls to get through the gaps and i'm sure they're catching live prayer as well and that's really important because once a wildcat makes that first live kill it's a hunter from then on these guys really do hold on to predatory instincts quite quickly
Video examples
Inside your computer -...
Basically, it provides a way for the computer to interact with its environment. But it also acts like a buffer to keep the CPU from being overwhelmed by distractions. In this case, the I/O subsystem decides that your mouse click is pretty important so it generates an interrupt to the CPU.
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Could a blind eye...
travel to the back of the eye and rewire themselves into the brain. And now some researchers even think they've found the key to how this works with the help of one of two chemicals that create activity in the brain called glutamate and aminoadipate. In mouse eyes,
Video examples
Why do animals have such...
In this way, the environment shapes longevity. When it comes to size, it's often, but not always, the case that larger species have a longer lifespan than smaller ones. For instance, an elephant or whale will live much longer than a mouse, rat, or vole,
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Rodent Roommates PIPE...
and I can catch a mouse if they are out here. This is the urban part of my gradient, here in the St. Louis metro area. Here surrounded by buildings, there are still a lot of places for wildlife, like nuisance rodents,
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Electrical experiments...
and most will say that a mouse or even a small insect has a brain, but almost nobody says that a plant or a tree or a shrub has a brain. And so when you push -- because this could actually help describe a little bit
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How Do Cats Use Their...
and the whiskers spring back again, the mouse doesn't have a chance. Far thicker and longer than normal hairs whiskers also sit three times deeper in the skin where they attach to nerve endings,
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Let's talk about sex -...
Peace. Just peace. Maybe we will never know why, but of all the possible bodies that have appeared on this planet, it was this one, bilaterally symmetric, warm-blooded, bigger than a mouse,
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Tobin Bell
American Actor
You know, the best-laid plans of mice and men... I like playing bad guys, and I don't have a problem doing that. They're interesting characters, and there's as many different kinds of bad guys as there are good guys - they're rich, they're strong, they're powerful, and so that's fine with me.
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Tony DiTerlizzi
American Artist
I don't look at stories in genres. A good story is a good story, no matter what planet it happens on, whether the characters are mice or human or whatever. That's how I look at it.
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John Singleton
American Director
Now, I'm so relaxed that I have to make myself nervous. I feel better when I'm second and third guessing myself over everything. I play with the mice in my head, all the time.
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Michael Giacchino
American Composer
In 'Ratatouille,' there are two different themes that express the two sides of Remy's personality: the creative side: the chef, and the 'thief' side: his nature as a mouse.
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Ann Widdecombe
British Politician
Mice are everywhere at Westminster but many MPs, including me, did not report them because we were afraid of their possible fate.
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John Lydon
English Musician
If you were to look back at me as a school kid you'd see a very quiet little church mouse kind of character.
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Walter Scott
Scottish Novelist
If a farmer fills his barn with grain, he gets mice. If he leaves it empty, he gets actors.
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Walt Disney
American Businessman
I only hope that we don't lose sight of one thing - that it was all started by a mouse.
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Milos Zeman
Czechoslovakian Statesman
I admire personalities. Some politicians who are only great mice are just persons.
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Catherine the Great
Russian Royalty
All this is only for the mice and myself to admire!
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Tobin Bell
American Actor
You know, the best-laid plans of mice and men... I like playing bad guys, and I don't have a problem doing that. They're interesting characters, and there's as many different kinds of bad guys as there are good guys - they're rich, they're strong, they're powerful, and so that's fine with me.
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Tony DiTerlizzi
American Artist
I don't look at stories in genres. A good story is a good story, no matter what planet it happens on, whether the characters are mice or human or whatever. That's how I look at it.
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John Singleton
American Director
Now, I'm so relaxed that I have to make myself nervous. I feel better when I'm second and third guessing myself over everything. I play with the mice in my head, all the time.
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Michael Giacchino
American Composer
In 'Ratatouille,' there are two different themes that express the two sides of Remy's personality: the creative side: the chef, and the 'thief' side: his nature as a mouse.
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Ann Widdecombe
British Politician
Mice are everywhere at Westminster but many MPs, including me, did not report them because we were afraid of their possible fate.
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John Lydon
English Musician
If you were to look back at me as a school kid you'd see a very quiet little church mouse kind of character.
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Walter Scott
Scottish Novelist
If a farmer fills his barn with grain, he gets mice. If he leaves it empty, he gets actors.
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Walt Disney
American Businessman
I only hope that we don't lose sight of one thing - that it was all started by a mouse.
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Milos Zeman
Czechoslovakian Statesman
I admire personalities. Some politicians who are only great mice are just persons.
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Catherine the Great
Russian Royalty
All this is only for the mice and myself to admire!
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