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mouse over

mouse over verb: to move a computer mouse pointer over (an element of the display).

Verb

mouse over (third-person singular simple present mouses over, present participle mousing over, simple past and past participle moused over)

  1. (transitive) To move a computer mouse pointer over (an element of the display).
    • You want to make the caption visible when the visitor mouses over the image.2012 December 27, David McFarland, CSS3: The Missing Manual, "O'Reilly Media, Inc.", →ISBN, page 500

Forms of mouse over

third-person singular presentmouses over
present participlemousing over
past participlemoused over
pastmoused over

Questions about mouse over

What does mouse over mean?
Mouse over means to move a computer mouse pointer over (an element of the display).
What part of speech is mouse over?
Mouse over is a verb.
What is the past tense of mouse over?
The past tense of mouse over is moused over.

Words near mouse over in the dictionary

  1. mouse mill
  2. mouse mills
  3. mouse mover
  4. mouse opossum
  5. mouse opossums
  6. mouse over
  7. mouse pad
  8. mouse pads
  9. mouse pointer
  10. mouse potato
  11. mouse potatoes

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