Tennis vs Mouse - What's the difference?
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(label) A sport played by two players (or four in doubles), who alternately strike the ball over a net using racquets.
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(label) A match in this sport.
* 1918 , (Violet Hunt), The Last Ditch (page 95)
(obsolete) An earlier game in which a ball is driven to and fro, or kept in motion by striking it with a racquet or with the open hand.
* (Shakespeare)
* (1800-1859)
(dated) To play tennis.
To drive backward and forward like a tennis ball.
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
As nouns the difference between tennis and mouse
is that tennis is tennis 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 ).tennis
Noun
(en-noun)George Goodchild
- We go about to parties in the daytime as usual, teas and tennises
- His easy bow, his good stories, his style of dancing and playing tennis , were familiar to all London.
Derived terms
* football tennis * lawn tennis * real tennis * tennis ball * tennis court * tennis player * tennis racket * tennis racquetSee also
* table tennis or ping pongVerb
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Anagrams
* 1000 English basic words ----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.