Rag vs Mouse - What's the difference?
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(in the plural) Tattered clothes.
* (and other bibliographic particulars) (Dryden)
A piece of old cloth; a tattered piece of cloth; a shred, a tatter.
* (and other bibliographic particulars) (Milton)
* (and other bibliographic particulars) (Fuller)
A shabby, beggarly fellow; a ragamuffin.
* (and other bibliographic particulars) (Ben Jonson)
* (and other bibliographic particulars) (Spenser)
A ragged edge in metalworking.
(nautical, slang) A sail, or any piece of canvas.
* (and other bibliographic particulars) (Lowell)
(slang, pejorative) A newspaper, magazine.
(rfc-sense) (poker slang) A card that appears to help no one.
(rfc-sense) (poker slang) A low card.
A coarse kind of rock, somewhat cellular in texture; ragstone.
* 2003 , (Peter Ackroyd), The Clerkenwell Tales , page 1:
To break (ore) into lumps for sorting.
To cut or dress roughly, as a grindstone.
To scold or rail at; to rate; to tease; to torment; to banter.
To drive a car or another vehicle in a hard, fast or unsympathetic manner.
To tease or torment, especially at a university; to bully, to haze.
(dated) A prank or practical joke.
(UK, Ireland) A society run by university students for the purpose of charitable fundraising.
(obsolete, US) An informal dance party featuring music played by African-American string bands.
A ragtime song, dance or piece of music.
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.
(lb)
:(Shakespeare)
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
As nouns the difference between rag and mouse
is that rag is rye (secale cereale ) while 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 ).rag
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) . Cognate with Swedish ragg.Noun
(en noun)- Virtue, though in rags , will keep me warm.
- Cowls, hoods, and habits, with their wearers, tossed, / And fluttered into rags .
- Not having otherwise any rag of legality to cover the shame of their cruelty.
- The other zealous rag is the compositor.
- Upon the proclamation, they all came in, both tag and rag .
- Our ship was a clipper with every rag set.
Derived terms
* on the rag * lose one's rag * ragwort * smell of an oily ragEtymology 2
origin; perhaps the same word as Etymology 1, above.Noun
(en noun)- the three walls around the garden, each one of thirty-three feet, were built out of three layers of stone — pebble stone, flint and rag stone.
Verb
(ragg)Etymology 3
Origin uncertain.Verb
(ragg)Derived terms
* rag the puck * rag onNoun
(en noun)Derived terms
* rag day * rag weekEtymology 4
Perhaps from (ragged). Compare later (ragtime).Noun
(en noun)Anagrams
*References
* Weisenberg, Michael (2000)The Official Dictionary of Poker. MGI/Mike Caro University. ISBN 978-1880069523 ----
mouse
English
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.