Muse vs. Mouse

Muse vs. Mouse — Is There a Difference?
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Difference Between Muse and Mouse

Musenoun

A source of inspiration.

Mousenoun

Any small rodent of the genus Mus.

Musenoun

(archaic) A poet; a bard.

Mousenoun

(informal) A member of the many small rodent and marsupial species resembling such a rodent.

Musenoun

An act of musing; a period of thoughtfulness.

Mousenoun

A quiet or shy person.

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Musenoun

A gap or hole in a hedge, fence, etc. through which a wild animal is accustomed to pass; a muset.

Find a hare without a muse. (old proverb)

Mousenoun

(computing) (plural mice or, rarely, mouses) An input device that is moved over a pad or other flat surface to produce a corresponding movement of a pointer on a graphical display.

Museverb

(intransitive) To become lost in thought, to ponder.

Mousenoun

(boxing) Hematoma.

Museverb

(transitive) To say (something) with due consideration or thought.

Mousenoun

(nautical) A 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.

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Museverb

(transitive) To think on; to meditate on.

Mousenoun

(obsolete) A familiar term of endearment.

Museverb

(transitive) To wonder at.

Mousenoun

A match used in firing guns or blasting.

Musenoun

in ancient Greek mythology any of 9 daughters of Zeus and Mnemosyne; protector of an art or science

Mousenoun

(set theory) A small model of (a fragment of) Zermelo-Fraenkel set theory with desirable properties (depending on the context).

Musenoun

the source of an artist's inspiration;

Euterpe was his muse

Mousenoun

(historical) A small cushion for a woman's hair.

Museverb

reflect deeply on a subject;

I mulled over the events of the afternoonphilosophers have speculated on the question of God for thousands of yearsThe scientist must stop to observe and start to excogitate

Mouseverb

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

Mouseverb

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

Mouseverb

To 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.

Mouseverb

To navigate by means of a computer mouse.

Mouseverb

To tear, as a cat devours a mouse.

Mousenoun

any of numerous small rodents typically resembling diminutive rats having pointed snouts and small ears on elongated bodies with slender usually hairless tails

Mousenoun

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 mouse is a ball that rolls on the surface of the pad;

a mouse takes much more room than a trackball

Mouseverb

to go stealthily or furtively;

..stead of sneaking around spying on the neighbor's house

Mouseverb

manipulate the mouse of a computer