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mousing over

mousing over is the present participle and gerund of mouse over.

Meaning of mouse over

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

Questions about mousing over

What is mousing over the present participle and gerund of?
Mousing over is the present participle and gerund of mouse over.

Words near mousing over in the dictionary

  1. mousiness
  2. mousing
  3. mousing around
  4. mousing hook
  5. mousing hooks
  6. mousing over
  7. mousingly
  8. mousings
  9. mousle
  10. mousled
  11. mousles

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