Muse vs. Mouse
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.
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.
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 museMousenoun
(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 excogitateMouseverb
(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 trackballMouseverb
to go stealthily or furtively;
..stead of sneaking around spying on the neighbor's houseMouseverb
manipulate the mouse of a computer
