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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
mosquito
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
insect/mosquito/bug etc repellent
mosquito net
▪ a mosquito net
mosquito net
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
bite
▪ She found a spot on Nowak's calf that was red and swollen like a severe mosquito bite.
▪ The mosquito bite on his leg had swollen into a scarlet hillock.
larva
▪ Live, disinfected Daphnia and mosquito larvae are popular.
▪ The same was true for mealworm larvae, a species of butterfly, mosquito larvae, and milkweed-bug nymphs.
▪ However, control by killing the mosquito larvae suffers from two main deficiencies.
▪ They eat Tubifex, Daphnia, and mosquito larvae.
net
▪ There are two entrances both with mosquito nets.
▪ A mosquito net was providentially suspended above the bed; the creek was certain to be thick with insects when night fell.
▪ There are also two inner pockets and a mosquito net in each door.
▪ No breath of air stirred the Collector's mosquito net.
▪ To protect people from being bitten they must be educated and persuaded to use insect repellents and mosquito nets.
▪ I lay under my mosquito net and waited.
▪ Both inner doors have mosquito nets at each end and the headroom inside the tent is excellent.
▪ Apparently no one ever thought of using mosquito nets.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ But my purse contained torch, mosquito repellent, passport and all the papers needed to subdue bureaucrats from here to Delhi.
▪ Even as I listened to him, mosquitoes, fat as houseflies, feasted on my legs.
▪ Hanson anticipates ground spraying to kill adult mosquitoes by midweek.
▪ It opens up with the sound of a mosquito and gets louder and louder.
▪ No breath of air stirred the Collector's mosquito net.
▪ Then, mosquitoes and steamy jungle heat along a path that went up and up.
▪ We also found with a sense of great relief that there were no mosquitoes!
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Mosquito

Mosquito \Mos*qui"to\ (m[o^]s*k[=e]*t[-o]), n.; pl. Mosquitoes (m[o^]s*k[=e]*t[=o]z). [Sp. mosquito, fr. moscafly, L. musca. Cf. Musket.] (Zo["o]l.) Any one of various species of gnats of the genus Culex and allied genera. The females have a proboscis containing, within the sheathlike labium, six fine, sharp, needlelike organs with which they puncture the skin of man and animals to suck the blood. These bites, when numerous, cause, in many persons, considerable irritation and swelling, with some pain. The larv[ae] and pup[ae], called wigglers, are aquatic.

Mosquito bar, Mosquito net, a net or curtain for excluding mosquitoes, -- used for beds and windows.

Mosquito fleet, a fleet of small vessels.

Mosquito hawk (Zo["o]l.), a dragon fly; -- so called because it captures and feeds upon mosquitoes.

Mosquito netting, a loosely-woven gauzelike fabric for making mosquito bars.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
mosquito

1580s, from Spanish mosquito "little gnat," diminutive of mosca "fly," from Latin musca "fly," from PIE root *mu- "gnat, fly," imitative of insect buzzing (compare Sanskrit maksa-, Greek myia, Old English mycg, Modern English midge, Old Church Slavonic mucha), perhaps imitative of the sound of humming insects.

Wiktionary
mosquito

n. A small flying insect of the family Culicidae, known for biting and sucking blood, leaving an itching bump on the skin. However, only the female of the species bites animals and humans. They are known to carry diseases like malaria and yellow fever. vb. To fly close to the ground, seemingly without a course.

WordNet
mosquito
  1. n. two-winged insect whose female has a long proboscis to pierce the skin and suck the blood of humans and animals

  2. [also: mosquitoes (pl)]

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MOSQUITO

In cryptography, MOSQUITO was a stream cipher algorithm designed by Joan Daemen and Paris Kitsos. It was submitted to the eSTREAM Project of the eCRYPT network. After the initial design was broken by Joux and Muller, a tweaked version named MOUSTIQUE was proposed which made it to Phase 3 of the eSTREAM evaluation process as the only self-synchronizing cipher remaining. However, MOUSTIQUE was subsequently broken by Käsper et al., leaving the design of a secure and efficient self-synchronising stream cipher as an open research problem.

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Mosquito (disambiguation)

Mosquito commonly refers to flying insects of the family Culicidae.

Mosquito may also refer to:

Mosquito (Michael Kulas album)

Mosquito is the first of three albums by Canadian songwriter Michael Kulas.

Mosquito (Psychotic Waltz album)

Mosquito was the third of 4 studio albums by Psychotic Waltz. Due to a tactical change of styles, it is also the least popular amongst fans. However, a significant minority regards this album to be their greatest work. The songwriting is more concise and focused, and their trademark tech-metal wizardry is used more strategically. In 2004, Metal Blade Records reissued Mosquito in a box set also containing the band's debut A Social Grace and a bonus DVD.

Mosquito (film)

Mosquito (also known as Blood Fever) is a 1995 science-fiction horror film directed by Gary Jones. The film features actor Gunnar Hansen, who played the character Leatherface in the 1974 horror film The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, along with Ron Asheton, lead guitarist for the band The Stooges. The film has earned a cult following since its release.

Mosquito (missile)

The Mosquito was an Italian wire-guided anti-tank missile produced by Contraves Italiana SpA. It entered service with the Italian Army in 1961 and Indonesian armed forces. It was broadly similar to anti-tank missiles of the era, having a fibreglass body with four large wings, cruciform in cross-section and a relatively short body.

The missile is transported in a cuboid container that also acts as a launcher. The launcher is attached to a control box that is equipped with a binocular sight and control joystick. When the missile is launched the operator steers the missile using the joystick. He first "gathers" the missile to his line of sight to the target.

It is steered in flight by vibrating spoilers in the wings, and spins for additional stabilization, with a pyrotechnically spun gyroscope providing stabilization. Some Mosquito missiles are on display at the Schweizerisches Militärmuseum Full.

Mosquito (Yeah Yeah Yeahs album)

Mosquito is the fourth studio album by American indie rock band Yeah Yeah Yeahs, released on April 12, 2013 by Interscope Records. The lead single " Sacrilege" was released on February 26, 2013. "Despair" was released as the second single on July 19, 2013.

Mosquito (footballer)

Thiago Rodrigues da Silva (born 6 January 1996), commonly known as Mosquito, is a Brazilian footballer who plays for Deportivo Maldonado as a forward.

Usage examples of "mosquito".

A mosquito bite, a cut, or the slightest abrasion, serves for lodgment of the poison with which the air seems to be filled.

And then it was that, like the apocryphal mosquito, the Fat and Skinny Club justified its attempted existence.

I should not be able to sleep, but would be tormented all night by innumerable mental mosquitoes if I made the attempt, and bethinking me of my former resolution, I proceeded to carry it out.

It is all inshore work on a very low coast all the way down to the Bight of Biafra, mangrove swamps and mud for hundreds of miles and mosquitoes so thick you can hardly breathe, particularly in the rainy season: though every now and then there are inlets, little gaps in the forest if you know where to look, and that is where the smaller schooners go, sometimes taking a full cargo aboard in a day.

With great difficulty, I managed to get mosquito hemostats on the bleeders, but before I could tie them the girl ripped them off.

But her son had been a man for a long time now, and those days of dabbing mosquito bites with calamine lotion and healing hurts with kisses were gone forever.

Professor Haeckel, botanising near that same spot, spent an hour in an endeavour to force his way into one of these jungles, but only succeeded in advancing a few steps into the thicket, when, stung by mosquitoes, bitten by ants, his clothing torn from his bleeding arms and legs, wounded by the thousands of sharp thorns of the calamus, hibiscus, euphorbias, lantanas, and myriad other jungle plants, he was obliged, utterly discomfited, to desist.

The mosquitoes from the swamp whined around our ears but both Chubby and I ignored them and sat quietly.

And I might have known it from the first, for I always use citronella for mosquitoes in the country.

Flaming six-foot-tall citronella torches formed a picturesque and, as Olivia remembered it, highly effective mosquito barrier around the perimeter of the five-acre lawn.

He had a double bed, mosquito net, fan, and salt-water shower all for six dollars a night.

In the evenings, when mist enveloped the huge construction project, the builders would withdraw into their barracks, close the windows and light smoky fires of damp twigs outside the doors to drive away the swarms of mosquitoes and gnats which filled the air with a sinister, high-pitched buzzing.

Badung might possibly have gone into Imperial history and fleet instructional fiches as a classic mosquito action.

The yadoya was a very large one, and, as sixty guests had arrived before me, there was no choice of accommodation, and I had to be contented with a room enclosed on all sides not by fusuma but shoji, and with barely room for my bed, bath, and chair, under a fusty green mosquito net which was a perfect nest of fleas.

Anything like the gekko or house lizard that dashed about everywhere and devoured flies and mosquitoes was devoutly welcomed.