Mousename

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  The Walt Disney Company.

  • At Disney, on the other hand, there was only one landowner and one government; public and private were fused. […] Spawned by the Mouse's arrival, I-Drive (as it is known locally) runs parallel to I-4, lying partly in Orlando and partly[…]
  • They are cut off from their regular jobs to see how the Mouse operates. Eisner told the Harvard Business Review. Synergy happens at Disney because it should. Our products scream out for synergy.
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  A surname from German.

mousenoun/maʊs/

• 1

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

  • 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.

  • 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.
  • A person smeared with the excrement of a mouse was rendered impotent, according to Pliny the Elder.
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  Any mammal of the many rodent families (especially Muridae) that have a small body and a long tail.

  • She's probably hiding in her room, she always does when we have company. She's our little mouse.
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  obsoleteAny mammal of the many rodent families (especially Muridae) that have a small body and a long tail.

  • Let the bloat King tempt you again to bed, / Pinch wanton on your cheek, call you his mouse
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  computingengineeringmathematicsAn 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.
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  computingengineeringmathematicsAn input device that is moved over a pad or other flat surface to produce a corresponding movement of a pointer on a graphical display.

  • Move the mouse over the icon.
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  boxinggovernmenthobbiesA facial hematoma or black eye.

• 8

  nauticaltransportA 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.

mouseverb/maʊs/

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  To move cautiously or furtively, in the manner of a mouse (the rodent) (frequently used in the phrasal verb to mouse around).

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  To hunt or catch mice (the rodents), usually of cats.

• 3

  nauticaltransportTo close the mouth of a hook by a careful binding of marline or wire.

  • Captain Higgins moused the hook with a bit of marline to prevent the block beckets from falling out under slack.
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  computingengineeringmathematicsTo navigate by means of a computer mouse.

  • I had just moused to the File menu and the pull-down menu repeated the menu bar's hue a dozen shades lighter.
  • Unlike the Flamenco work, the Relation Browser allows users to quickly explore a document space using dynamic queries issued by mousing over facet elements in the interface.
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  obsoleteTo tear, as a cat devours a mouse.

  • [Death] mousing the flesh of men.