mouse
US: /ˈmaʊs/
English Vietnamese dictionary
mouse /maus - mauz/
- mauz/
- danh từ, số nhiều mice /mais/
- (động vật học) chuột
- house mouse: chuột nhắt
- (từ lóng) mắt sưng húp, mắt thâm tím
- (động vật học) chuột
- nội động từ
- bắt chuột, săn chuột
- đi rón rén, lén, lần mò
- (thông tục) (+ about) lục lọi, tìm kiếm, bới
- ngoại động từ
- rình bắt đến cùng
- kiên nhẫn, tìm kiếm
Advanced English dictionary
1 a small animal that is covered in fur and has a long thin tail. Mice live in fields, in people's houses or where food is stored: a field mouse + a house mouse + The stores were overrun with rats and mice. + She crept upstairs, quiet as a mouse. + He was a weak little mouse of a man.
See also -
2 (plural also mouses) (computing) a small device that is moved by hand across a surface to control the movement of the CURSOR on a computer screen: Click the left mouse button twice to highlight the program. + Use the mouse to drag the icon to a new position.
Idioms see CAT
Collocation dictionary
1 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.
2 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
Concise English dictionary
mice|mouses|moused|mousingmaʊs
noun
+any of numerous small rodents typically resembling diminutive rats having pointed snouts and small ears on elongated bodies with slender usually hairless tails
+a swollen bruise caused by a blow to the eye
+person who is quiet or timid
+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
verb
+to go stealthily or furtively
+manipulate the mouse of a computer
