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MOUSE AROUND

Specialty Definition: MOUSE AROUND

DomainDefinition

Computing

Mouse around To explore public portions of a large system, especially a network such as Internet via FTP or TELNET, looking for interesting stuff to snarf. [Jargon File] (1994-12-05). Source: The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Usage: MOUSE AROUND

DomainUsage

Lyrics

Just slide your little mouse around (Www.memory; performing artist: Alan Jackson)

Movie/TV Titles

It's Nice to Have a Mouse Around the House (1965)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: MOUSE AROUND

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

mouse around

11
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Anagrams: MOUSE AROUND

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-d-e-m-n-o-o-r-s-u-u"

-2 letters: meandrous.

-3 letters: dormouse, duramens, enamours, enormous, madrones, madronos, marooned, maunders, neuromas, numerous, ransomed, surnamed, unamused, unmoored, unsoured.

-4 letters: amorous, anurous, arduous, arenous, aroused, asunder, daemons, damners, danseur, doorman, doormen, dromons, duramen, enamors, enamour, enduros, madrone, madrono, maduros, manured, manures, maroons, masoned, maunder, medusan, moaners, moderns, monades, mourned, neuroma, oarsmen, onerous, osmunda, radomes, randoms.

 Words containing the letters "a-d-e-m-n-o-o-r-s-u-u"
 

+4 letters: deuteranomalous, monounsaturated.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: MOUSE AROUND


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

4D 4F 55 53 45      41 52 4F 55 4E 44

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

    

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01001101 01001111 01010101 01010011 01000101 00100000 01000001 01010010 01001111 01010101 01001110 01000100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#77 &#79 &#85 &#83 &#69 &#32 &#65 &#82 &#79 &#85 &#78 &#68

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

004D 004F 0055 0053 0045      0041 0052 004F 0055 004E 0044

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

47495553392355249554838

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INDEX

1. Usage: Modern
2. Expressions: Internet
3. Anagrams
4. Orthography
5. Bibliography


  

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