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Definition: Mouser |
MouserNoun1. A cat proficient at mousing. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "mouser" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1749. (references) |
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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | Old Jack, the famous New Orleans mouser, clearing Uncle Sam's barn of bank and Clay rats; ... Credit: Library of Congress. |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
| "Mouser" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Mouser" is used about 14 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 14 | 93,893 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "mouser" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Mouser | Last name | 1,000 | 11,334 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
Expression using "mouser": good mouser. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| 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. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
mouser | 232 |
mouser electronics | 158 |
mouser cabinet | 12 |
dru mouser | 7 |
mouser electronic | 6 |
mouser rifle | 4 |
andrea mouser | 4 |
mouser custom cabinetry | 3 |
cabinetry mouser | 2 |
kitchen mouser | 2 |
jill mouser | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "mouser"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | myší lovec. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | chasseur de souris. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | mäusejäger, mäusefänger. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | γάτα (cat, puss), ποντικόθηρασ. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | lugher, lughder. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ousermay prinzãtor de şoareci. (various references) råttfångare (ratcatcher, Ratter). (various references) avcı kedi (good mouser, Ratter). (various references) con mèo t i bắt chuột. (various references) llygotwraig (ratter), llygotwr (ratter). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Words beginning with "mouser": mousers. (additional references) | |
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"Mouser" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: houser, Macuser, Mausner, Meuser, misuer, Moiseev, Moiser, Moizer, momser, mooseg, mooset, moser, mosner, mosre, mosser, mouce, Moucure, Mouer, moues, Moulsey, Mousavi, Mousawi, Mouscron, mousery, mouske, mousme, mousr, moussed, Moussel, mousser, Moussey, moussir, Moussoro, mouster, moyse, moyser, Musar, musser, Muyser, nooser, Oussera, souser. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "mouser" (pronounced mou"zer) |
| 3 | -ou" z er | browser, houser, schnauzer, trouser. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-m-o-r-s-u" | |
-1 letter: euros, meous, mores, morse, moues, mouse, mures, muser, omers, roues, rouse, serum. | |
-2 letters: emus, eros, euro, meou, more, mors, moue, mure, muse, omer, ores, ours, rems, roes, roms, rose, roue, rues, rums, ruse, some, sore, sour, suer, sumo, sure, user. | |
-3 letters: ems, emu, ers, mor, mos, mus, oes, oms, ore, ors, ose, our. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-m-o-r-s-u" | |
+1 letter: grumose, morgues, mousers, mousier, oestrum, supremo. | |
+2 letters: consumer, costumer, customer, decorums, dimerous, dormouse, enamours, enormous, foursome, gourmets, gruesome, misroute, moisture, monsieur, moresque, moulders, moulters, mounters, mourners, mouthers, mucrones, neuromas, numerous, oestrums, racemous, ramulose, remounts, resummon, smoulder, spermous, strumose, summoner, supermom, supremos. | |
+3 letters: amauroses, armourers, armouries, ausformed, castoreum, commuters, composure, computers, consumers, costumers, costumery, costumier, customers, emporiums, emulators, europiums, exordiums, farmhouse, foursomes, fumaroles, gouramies, gruesomer, guestroom, houseroom, humorless, imperious, imposture, lemuroids, marvelous, meandrous, mercurous, midcourse, misrouted, misroutes, moistures, moresques, mousetrap, murderous, outdreams, outermost, outhomers, overpumps, promulges, rearmouse, reremouse, responsum, resummons, rhombuses, rostellum, roundsmen, rousement, semigroup, sensorium, smoulders, summoners, superbomb, supermoms, tautomers, tremulous, trimerous, udometers, undermost, uppermost, uttermost, verminous, vermouths, voyeurism. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)4D 6F 75 73 65 72 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-- --- ..- ... . .-. |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001101 01101111 01110101 01110011 01100101 01110010 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)M o u s e r |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)004D 006F 0075 0073 0065 0072 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)478187857184 |
| 1. Definition 2. Usage: Commercial 3. Images: Photo Album 4. Usage Frequency | 5. Names: Frequency 6. Expressions 7. Expressions: Internet 8. Translations: Modern | 9. Derivations 10. Rhymes 11. Anagrams 12. Orthography | 13. Bibliography |
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