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# mouse

«mouse» in Mova's school dictionary: **a very small animal with a long thin tail, round ears and…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (mouse, mice; for computers also «mouses»)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A mouse is a very small animal with a long thin tail, round ears and sharp teeth. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mouse/#m1)

2) A computer mouse is a small tool you move by hand to point and click on a screen. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mouse/#m2)

3) A shy, quiet person is sometimes called a mouse. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mouse/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

the third jumper in a jumping contest, compared to the frog; or animals counted; in stories mice are small, quick and clever; in science, a rodent and a mammal; phrases «as quiet as a mouse», «cat and mouse»

### examples

- The mouse jumped 12 inches less than the frog. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mouse/#x1)
- How far did the mouse jump? [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mouse/#x2)
- There are 6 mice in the barn. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mouse/#x3)
- How much farther did the grasshopper jump than the mouse? [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mouse/#x4)
- The mouse ate some cheese. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mouse/#x5)
- Click the mouse to open the file. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mouse/#x6)
- She was as quiet as a mouse. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mouse/#x7)
- Our cat chased a mouse into the garden. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mouse/#x8)
- A mouse is a mammal. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mouse/#x9)
- The story is about a brave little mouse. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mouse/#x10)
- "Spare me!" begged the poor Mouse. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mouse/#x11)

### note

A name in a comparison chain. «less than the frog» takes away from the frog's jump. Trap: the plural is «mice». Mice are rodents, like rats but smaller. Wild mice can carry germs, so wash your hands if you touch where they have been.

### In the corpora

- [Stories grow as they travel: one mouse in the kitchen becomes "the school's closing because of rats".](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/50-rumours-about-classmates-and-secrets/16/)
- [Many cartoon characters, like Mickey Mouse and the Simpsons, have four fingers because it is quicker to draw and looks clearer.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/23-animation-flipbooks-stop-motion-computer-cartoons/15/)
- [In Aesop's fable from ancient Greece, about 2500 years ago, a little mouse saves a lion by gnawing through a net.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/18-the-lion-king-of-the-beasts/12/)
- [Elephants may jump at small sudden things, but the story that they are specially afraid of mice is a myth.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/21-elephants-the-trunk/15/)
- [It is very funny, and almost none of it is how real cats and mice live.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/118-tom-and-jerry-do-real-cats-chase-mice/1/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «mouse» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mouse/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.