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  2. Computer mouse - Wikipedia

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    A computer mouse (plural mice, also mouses) [nb 1] is a hand-held pointing device that detects two-dimensional motion relative to a surface. This motion is typically translated into the motion of the pointer (called a cursor) on a display , which allows a smooth control of the graphical user interface of a computer .

  3. Mice (disambiguation) - Wikipedia

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    Download as PDF; Printable version; In other projects ... Mice is the plural form of mouse, a rodent. Mice or MICE may also refer to: Acronyms. ... Plural of computer ...

  4. Calque - Wikipedia

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    The "computer mouse" was named in English for its resemblance to the animal. Many other languages use their word for "mouse" for the "computer mouse", sometimes using a diminutive or, in Chinese, adding the word "cursor" (标), making shǔbiāo "mouse cursor" (simplified Chinese: 鼠标; traditional Chinese: 鼠標; pinyin: shǔbiāo).

  5. Spanish nouns - Wikipedia

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    Spanish has two grammatical numbers: singular and plural. [27] The singular form is the lemma, and the plural is the marked form. [28] Whether a noun is singular or plural generally depends on the referent of the noun, with singular nouns typically referring to one being and plural nouns to multiple.

  6. Diccionario de la lengua española - Wikipedia

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    The Diccionario de la lengua española [a] (DLE; [b] English: Dictionary of the Spanish language) is the authoritative dictionary of the Spanish language. [1] It is produced, edited, and published by the Royal Spanish Academy, with the participation of the Association of Academies of the Spanish Language.

  7. English plurals - Wikipedia

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    For example, in Spanish, nouns composed of a verb and its plural object usually have the verb first and noun object last (e.g. the legendary monster chupacabras, literally "sucks-goats", or in a more natural English formation "goatsucker") and the plural form of the object noun is retained in both the singular and plural forms of the compound ...

  8. Edit your personal dictionary in AOL Desktop Gold

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    1. Sign in to Desktop Gold. 2. Click the Settings button at the top. 3. Click Mail on the left side. 4. Click the Spell Check tab. 5. Click Add after typing in a word and it will be added to your personal dictionary.

  9. List of English–Spanish interlingual homographs - Wikipedia

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    Because Spanish is a Romance language (which means it evolved from Latin), many of its words are either inherited from Latin or derive from Latin words. Although English is a Germanic language , it, too, incorporates thousands of Latinate words that are related to words in Spanish. [ 3 ]