mouse
[noun]
Synonyms: girl friend, best girl, chick, doney, gal, girl, lady friend, lass, popsy, black eye, shiner
[verb]
Synonyms: snoop, busybody, nose, piroot, poke, pry, snook, steal, creep, glide, slide, slip

[TahlilGaran] English Synonym Dictionary ▲

mouse S2 W3 /maʊs/ noun [countable]
[Language: Old English; Origin: mus]

1. (plural mice /maɪs/) a small furry animal with a pointed nose and a long tail that lives in people’s houses or in fields:
The cat laid a dead mouse at my feet.
a field mouse

2.
(plural mouses) a small object connected to a computer by a wire, which you move with your hand to give instructions to the computer:
Select the printer icon and then click the left mouse button.

3. (plural mice) informal a quiet nervous person
⇒ play cat and mouse at cat(4), ⇒ quiet as a mouse at quiet¹(1)

[TahlilGaran] Dictionary of Contemporary English ▲

mouse
noun
I. animal
ADJ. field, house | laboratory | white
VERB + MOUSE catch
MOUSE + VERB squeak | run, scamper, scurry | gnaw sth A mouse has gnawed its way through the telephone wire.
MOUSE + NOUN droppings | hole | trap
PHRASES as quiet as a mouse She crept upstairs, as quiet as a mouse.

[TahlilGaran] Collocations Dictionary ▲

mouse
II. for a computer
VERB + MOUSE click, double click, move, use
MOUSE + NOUN button | click Some of these mouse click short cuts are worth learning.
cursor, pointer
PREP. with the ~ Move the cursor around the screen with the mouse.
 ⇒ Special page at COMPUTER

[TahlilGaran] Collocations Dictionary ▲

mouse
̘. ̈n.maus
See: play cat and mouse with

[TahlilGaran] English Idioms Dictionary ▲