Mouse vs Alligator - What's the difference?
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Any small rodent of the genus Mus .
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*:At twilight in the summer there is never anybody to fear—man, woman, or cat—in the chambers and at that hour the mice come out. They do not eat parchment or foolscap or red tape, but they eat the luncheon crumbs.
(lb) A member of the many small rodent and marsupial species resembling such a rodent.
A quiet or shy person.
(lb) (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.
(lb) Hematoma.
(lb) 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 straighening out.
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A match used in firing guns or blasting.
(lb) A small model of (a fragment of) (Zermelo-Fraenkel set theory) with desirable properties (depending on the context).
To move cautiously or furtively, in the manner of a mouse (the rodent) (frequently used in the phrasal verb to mouse around ).
To hunt or catch mice (the rodents), usually of cats.
(nautical) To close the mouth of a hook by a careful binding of marline or wire.
(computing) To navigate by means of a computer mouse.
* 1988 , MacUser: Volume 4
* 2009 , Daniel Tunkelang, Faceted Search (page 35)
(obsolete, nonce, transitive) To tear, as a cat devours a mouse.
* Shakespeare
Either of two species of large amphibious reptile, , in the genus Alligator within order Crocodilia, which have sharp teeth and very strong jaws and are native to the Americas and China.
* 2002 , Maurice Burton, Robert Burton, International Wildlife Encyclopedia ,
* 2007 , Bernie McGovern (editor), Florida Almanac: 2007-2008 , 17th Edition,
* 2012 , Thomas N. Tozer, Pierre's Journey to Florida: Diary of a Young Huguenot in the Sixteenth Century ,
Any of various machines with strong jaws, one of which opens like the movable jaw of an alligator.
# (metalworking) A form of squeezer for the puddle ball.
# (mining) A rock breaker.
# (printing) A kind of job press.
(of paint or other coatings) To crack in a pattern resembling an alligator's skin.
* 2003 , Carson Dunlop & Associates, Essentials of Home Inspection: Roofing ,
* 2004 , James E. Piper, Handbook of Facility Assessment ,
* 2009 , Kären M. Hess, Christine M. H. Orthmann, Criminal Investigation ,
As a noun mouse
is any small rodent of the genus mus .As a verb mouse
is to move cautiously or furtively, in the manner of a mouse (the rodent) (frequently used in the phrasal verb to mouse around ).As a proper noun alligator is
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Noun
(mice)Hypernyms
* (small rodent) rodentCoordinate terms
* (small rodent) rat * (input device) joystick, trackpad, trackball, pointing stickDerived terms
* (as) quiet as a mouse * cat and mouse * church mouse * deer mouse * dormouse * fieldmouse * house mouse * kangaroo mouse * mouseable, mousable * mouse button * mouse click * mouse-ear * mouse mat * mouse pad * mouser * mousetrap * mousy * optical mouse * play cat and mouse * poor as a church mouse * when the cat's away the mice will playVerb
(mous)- Captain Higgins moused the hook with a bit of marline to prevent the block beckets from falling out under slack.
- I had just moused to the File menu and the pull-down menu repeated the menu bar's hue a dozen shades lighter.
- Unlike the Flamenco work, the Relation Browser allows users to quickly explore a document space using dynamic queries issued by mousing over facet elements in the interface.
- [Death] mousing the flesh of men.
Derived terms
* mouse around * mouse over * mouserSee also
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* English nouns with irregular plurals ----alligator
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(wikipedia alligator)Etymology 1
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(en noun)- All you could see of the alligator were its two eyes above the water, and suddenly it snatched up and caught the poor bird with its strong jaws full of sharp teeth .
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- Alligators and crocodiles look extremely alike.
- The main distinguishing feature is the teeth. In a crocodile the teeth in its upper and lower jaws are in line, but in an alligator , when its mouth is shut, the upper teeth lie outside the lower ones.
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- In 1967, the federal government declared alligators' to be an Endangered Species and prohibited gator hunting and the sale of hides. The ' alligator responded and by the mid-1970s, the reptile numbers soared to an estimated half-million.
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- They ran to the village screaming at the top of their lungs that an alligator' was coming after them. Several of the men in Alimacani retrieved from a storehouse the tool they used to catch ' alligators .
Synonyms
* (reptile within Crocodilia) gator (informal)Coordinate terms
* (reptile within Crocodilia) caiman, cayman; croc, crocodile; gavial, gharialDerived terms
* (Alligator Alley) * alligator apple * alligator bait * alligator clip * alligatored * alligator fish * alligator forceps * alligator gar * alligator grass * alligatoring * alligator leather * alligator lizard * alligator pear * (Alligator Pond) * alligator press * alligator shear * alligator skin * alligator snapper, alligator snapping turtle * alligator spread * alligator terrapin * alligator tortoise * alligator turtle, alligator-turtle * alligator weed * alligator wood * alligator wrench * American alligator (Alligator mississippiensis ) * Chinese alligator (Alligator sinensis ) * gator * prairie alligator * see you later alligator * spectacled alligatorVerb
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- Alligatoring is a result of the sun making the top surface of the asphalt brittle.
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- Sealing an area that is alligatoring' is a temporary solution that may delay having to replace the asphalt for several years. A more permanent repair would be to replace the ' alligatored section.
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- Common burn indicators include alligatoring , crazing, the depth of char, lines of demarcation, sagged furniture springs and spalling.
