noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
as quiet as a mouse (= very quiet )
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I’ll be as quiet as a mouse .
Mickey Mouse
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The charity has been described as a Mickey Mouse operation.
mouse mat
mouse miles
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
dead
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What is it about vacuum flasks that makes every drink taste like there's a chunk of dead mouse at the bottom?
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I imagined dead mice and old wires curled recklessly in the walls, rusty pipes among antique fixtures.
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The desk arrived at his county office with a dead mouse in one drawer.
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Nobody ever said it about dead mice .
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But when the researchers analyzed the brains of the dead mice , they found that fewer than half harbored prions.
human
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This study exemplifies the combined use of human and mouse genetics to dissect human genetic diseases involving multiple genes and complex phenotypes.
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As similar as mouse brains are to human brains, mice are not men.
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The human and mouse eggs are about one tenth of a millimetre in diameter and are just visible to the naked eye.
little
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It's not very safe for you here, little mouse .
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All that money spent on fees, and for what, a poor wet little mouse .
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The little mice ... took notice of the pattern of that wonderful coat.
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Dorothy came to meet them and thanked the little mice warmly for saving her companion from death.
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The little mouse which had run so fast and so far would now sit still in its corner.
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She saw the little mouse lying dead in its corner covered in dust.
mutant
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At least one and usually two or more wild-type or heterozygous littermates were analysed in parallel with the mutant mice .
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Using virus vectors, Woo successfully inserted normal mouse genes for phenylalanine hydroxylase into cultured liver cells from the mutant mouse.
quiet
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In fact she was as quiet as a mouse and Ruth hardly knew she was there.
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Here, they are quiet as mice throughout Act 1 and are not heard to applaud at the end.
right
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Pointing at the object and pressing the right mouse button displays each object's properties.
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Use your trusty right mouse button to click on it, which will bring up a properties sheet.
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Object properties, once set, can be redefined simply by re-clicking the right mouse button.
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In Windows 95, the right mouse button: A.. Fires missiles.
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Some will let you create a new entry by just right clicking your mouse when the sender's email is open.
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Show Menu Move mouse over molecule, click and hold RIGHT mouse button.
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To change their properties you click on the right mouse button.
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Click on the printer icon with the right mouse button.
transgenic
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The transgenic mouse lines also provide a source for future studies on early developmental stages of the immune system.
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Supermouse is known as a transgenic mouse .
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Transgene copy number and expression in Ea transgenic mouse lines.
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This indicates that the transcriptional activity of the transgenic mice is not reflected in the methylation state of the transgenes.
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All Ea d transgenic mice lines were healthy and transmitted the Ea d transgene to their offspring.
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Reforming of DNase I hypersensitive sites in Long 12 transgenic mice in a copy number dependent fashion.
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These transgenic mice are also of use in more classical immunological studies.
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Two transgenic mice were obtained of which only the one carrying two copies of the gene could be established as a line.
white
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On the table was a cage with two white mice clinging to the top.
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The most outrageous examples involve force-feeding massive doses of sugar substitutes to white laboratory mice , who eventually grew tumors.
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He bet he hadn't got any white mice either.
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There was a cage on the dresser with white mice running around inside.
■ NOUN
button
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Pointing at the object and pressing the right mouse button displays each object's properties.
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Use your trusty right mouse button to click on it, which will bring up a properties sheet.
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Double-click - A mouse procedure where the left-hand mouse button is pressed twice in quick succession.
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Then there was the mouse button war.
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Object properties, once set, can be redefined simply by re-clicking the right mouse button .
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The right-side mouse button is one such key to using Windows 95.
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Mass Downloader is particularly nice, as it integrates into your mouse button menu.
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But debates about mouse buttons are impassioned and urgent.
click
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A single mouse click would simply highlight the item.
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Modify your computer so menus and desktop put your stationery, programs and favorite Web destination a mouse click away.
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Anyone can access a large number of atomic databases on the Internet with a mouse click .
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That will cost you 10 minutes and umpteen keystrokes and mouse clicks .
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Move back to the Program Manager, highlight the Legato icon with a single mouse click , and press the Delete key.
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A mouse click on a menu item would do it.
embryo
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It is quite convenient to simplify the problem, and instead of thinking about sea-urchin or mouse embryos , to think about flags.
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A quite different way of creating a chimaera is to fuse two early mouse embryos .
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Two cell lineage markers have been applied recently to the pre-implantation mouse embryo .
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It is possible to rearrange the cells of the early mouse embryo in numerous combinations and normal development will still occur.
field
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But there was nothing in the emptiness, not even a field mouse .
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The field mouse: Made Thumbelina an unwilling guest.
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Finally, in the dead of winter, she encountered a field mouse , who invited her into his den.
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The bedding was shredded by field mice .
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In the meantime, the field mouse prepared Thumbelina for her marriage to the mole.
game
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For the rest of the hunting season, the saboteurs will play a cat and mouse game with the huntsmen.
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The shooting was just the latest tragedy in a cat-and-mouse game played since 1959.
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You don't have to play these cat and mouse games with your clockwork soldiers.
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Its a cat and mouse game .
pointer
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This is done by clicking the mouse pointer either on the top right-hand upward pointing arrow or the extreme top left-hand dash.
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In essence, this makes the mouse pointer disappear disconcertingly when the pointer is moved on the pad.
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The screen tip will appear at the mouse pointer later when you hold your mouse over the image.
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Simply clicking on the Koopa with the mouse pointer before he gets away will trip him up.
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Position the mouse pointer within either window area and click.
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The text is entered directly from the keyboard having first selected its position between the staves with the mouse pointer .
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The mouse pointer can be used to place the text cursor anywhere on the document and also to activate menus and commands.
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Does the mouse pointer still work even if the keyboard doesn't?
■ VERB
catch
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For a big man, he always seemed to move so silently, like a cat hoping to catch a mouse .
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Need to know how to catch a mouse ?
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In the wild, a barn owl would take refuge in a barn and would probably manage to catch mice there.
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He purred like a cat that had just caught a mouse .
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One by one I caught the mice in the six traps I set every night.
hold
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The screen tip will appear at the mouse pointer later when you hold your mouse over the image.
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Step 1: While holding down the left mouse button, slide the mouse over the text you wish to capture.
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Zoom Control Move mouse over the molecule, hold Shift key, click and hold mouse button and drag.
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Show Menu Move mouse over molecule, click and hold mouse button and wait.
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Here, computer-illiterate small-time capitalists can commit gaffes, like holding the mouse upside down, without being seen.
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Move the magnified area up by holding down the mouse button on the up arrow and stop at row 39.
inject
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Chain and Heatley injected streptococci into mice and then treated some of the mice with penicillin.
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When the scientists injected the fat mice with leptin, they became skinny minnies.
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Twenty one days post-infection, flies were dissected and infected salivary glands were injected into mice .
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When material from the brains of these mice was injected into other mice and hamsters, it eventually killed them.
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Moreover, it was not harmful when it was injected into mice .
move
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Staff are more worried about moving than mice .
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The realistic freedom this gives you is unparalleled, although it takes a while to master walking by moving the mouse .
play
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For the rest of the hunting season, the saboteurs will play a cat and mouse game with the huntsmen.
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You don't have to play these cat and mouse games with your clockwork soldiers.
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They played cat and mouse with the Bay, now scrambling for the outside, now sneaking back in.
show
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A cat showing a mouse a bit of cheese to see what reaction he could get.
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The preference shown by the C57BLVCrgI mice was internally generated.
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The first slide showed a normal-size mouse eating a balanced diet of lab food pellets.
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The second slide showed a mouse that had ballooned into something out of a horror movie.
use
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It is also advantageous, although not absolutely necessary, to use a mouse .
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Computer users need to be trained and equipped to use mice correctly.
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Incidentally the Amstrad mouse driver is only MOUSE.COM and don't try using other mouse drivers because they definitely don't work.
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For example, players who use three-button mice with the game can use one of the buttons to look up or down.
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After this you can use the mouse to highlight the formula.
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Thousands of kids have used the computer mouse to click on objects on the computer screen and watch them move.
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For: Easy note entry by using a mouse .
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I realized that when you used the mouse , they were pointing.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
play (a game of) cat and mouse (with sb)
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For the rest of the hunting season, the saboteurs will play a cat and mouse game with the huntsmen.
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They played cat and mouse with the Bay, now scrambling for the outside, now sneaking back in.
the click of a mouse
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As you go through the process, a summary of where you stand is available at the click of a mouse.
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At the click of a mouse, you can search out a book in just a few seconds.
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Furthermore, they are unlikely to find their complete family history ready to be downloaded at the click of a mouse.
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If you can connect to the world with the click of a mouse, is everyone a neighbor?
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Thus, once text could be copied at the click of a mouse, the traditional publishing industry would face trouble.
when the cat's away (the mice will play)
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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a field mouse
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A mouse click on a menu item would do it.
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Bill Atkinson quickly hacked a driver program that allowed the mouse to move a cursor on the computer screen.
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Heatley stayed until 3.30 a.m., when all of the untreated mice had died.
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It was the mouse that roared, even if the mouse happens to weigh 286 pounds.
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The mouse controls a fly swatter.