What does mole mean?

Definitions for mole
ˈmoʊ leɪmole

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. gram molecule, mole, molnoun

    the molecular weight of a substance expressed in grams; the basic unit of amount of substance adopted under the Systeme International d'Unites

  2. counterspy, molenoun

    a spy who works against enemy espionage

  3. molenoun

    spicy sauce often containing chocolate

  4. molenoun

    a small congenital pigmented spot on the skin

  5. breakwater, groin, groyne, mole, bulwark, seawall, jettynoun

    a protective structure of stone or concrete; extends from shore into the water to prevent a beach from washing away

  6. molenoun

    small velvety-furred burrowing mammal having small eyes and fossorial forefeet

GCIDE

  1. Molenoun

    (fig.)A spy who lives for years an apparently normal life (to establish a cover) before beginning his spying activities.

Wiktionary

  1. molenoun

    A pigmented spot on the skin, a naevus, slightly raised, and sometimes hairy.

  2. molenoun

    Any of several small, burrowing insectivores of the family Talpidae.

  3. molenoun

    Any of the burrowing rodents also called mole rats.

  4. mole

    An internal spy, a person who involves himself or herself with an enemy organisation, especially an intelligence or governmental organisation, to determine and betray its secrets from within.

  5. molenoun

    A moll, a bitch, a slut.

  6. molenoun

    A massive structure, usually of stone, used as a pier, breakwater or junction between places separated by water.

  7. molenoun

    A haven or harbour, protected with such a breakwater.

  8. mole

    A structure with a breakwater on one side, and a cargo handling facility on the other.

  9. molenoun

    In the International System of Units, the base unit of amount of substance; the amount of substance of a system which contains as many elementary entities as there are atoms in 0.012kg of carbon-12. Symbol: mol. The number of atoms is known as Avogadro's number

  10. molenoun

    A hemorrhagic mass of tissue in the uterus caused by a dead ovum.

  11. molenoun

    One of several spicy sauces typical of the cuisine of Mexico and neighboring Central America, especially the sauce which contains chocolate and which is used in cooking main dishes, not desserts.

  12. molénoun

    A Mexican sauce that usually contains unsweetened chocolate, among other things.

  13. molénoun

    A dish featuring this sauce

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. MOLEnoun

    1.A mole is a formless concretion of extravasated blood, which grows unto a kind of flesh in the uterus, and is called a false conception. John Quincy

    Etymology: mœl , Saxon; mole, Fr. mola, Lat.

    To nourish hair upon the moles of the face, is the perpetuation of a very antient custom. Thomas Browne, Vulgar Errours.

    Such in painting are the warts and moles, which adding a likeness to the face, are not therefore to be omitted. Dryden.

    That Timothy Trim and Jack were the same person, was proved, particularly by a mole under the left pap. Arbuthnot.

    The peculiarities in Homer are marks and moles, by which every common eye distinguishes him. Alexander Pope.

    Sion is streightened on the north side by the sea-ruined wall of the mole. George Sandys.

    With asphaltick slime the gather’d beach
    They fasten’d; and the mole immense wrought on
    Over the foaming deep high-arch’d, a bridge
    Of length prodigious. John Milton, Par. Lost, b. x.

    The great quantities of stones dug out of the rock could not easily conceal themselves, had they not been consumed in the moles and buildings of Naples. Joseph Addison, on Italy.

    Bid the broad arch the dang’rous flood contain,
    The mole projected break the roaring main. Alexander Pope.

    Tread softly, that the blind mole may not
    Hear a foot fall; we now are near his cell. William Shakespeare.

    What is more obvious than a mole, and yet what more palpable argument of Providence? More.

    Moles have perfect eyes, and holes for them through the skin, not much bigger than a pin’s head. John Ray, on the Creation.

    Thy arts of building from the bee receive;
    Learn of the mole to plow, the worm to weave. Alexander Pope.

ChatGPT

  1. mole

    A mole is a unit of measurement in chemistry used to express amounts of a chemical substance. It is defined as exactly 6.02214076×10^23 elementary entities, such as atoms, molecules or ions. This number is known as Avogadro's number. It allows chemists to count the number of elementary entities (usually atoms or molecules) in a certain mass of a given substance.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Molenoun

    a spot; a stain; a mark which discolors or disfigures

  2. Molenoun

    a spot, mark, or small permanent protuberance on the human body; esp., a spot which is dark-colored, from which commonly issue one or more hairs

  3. Molenoun

    a mass of fleshy or other more or less solid matter generated in the uterus

  4. Molenoun

    a mound or massive work formed of masonry or large stones, etc., laid in the sea, often extended either in a right line or an arc of a circle before a port which it serves to defend from the violence of the waves, thus protecting ships in a harbor; also, sometimes, the harbor itself

  5. Molenoun

    any insectivore of the family Talpidae. They have minute eyes and ears, soft fur, and very large and strong fore feet

  6. Molenoun

    a plow of peculiar construction, for forming underground drains

  7. Moleverb

    to form holes in, as a mole; to burrow; to excavate; as, to mole the earth

  8. Moleverb

    to clear of molehills

  9. Etymology: [OE. molle, either shortened fr. moldwerp, or from the root of E. mold soil: cf. D. mol, OD. molworp. See Moldwarp.]

Wikidata

  1. Mole

    Moles are small cylindrical mammals adapted to a subterranean lifestyle. They have velvety fur; tiny or invisible ears and eyes; reduced hindlimbs; and short, powerful forelimbs with large paws oriented for digging. The term is especially and most properly used for the true moles, those of the Talpidae family in the order Soricomorpha found in most parts of North America, Asia, and Europe although may refer to other completely unrelated mammals of Australia and southern Africa which have also evolved the mole body plan; it is not commonly used for some talpids, such as desmans and shrew-moles, which do not quite fit the common definition of “mole”.

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary

  1. Mole

    mōl, n. a permanent dark-brown mark on the human skin, often hairy—a pigmentary Nævus (q.v.). [A.S. mál; Ger. maal, L. mac-ula.]

  2. Mole

    mōl, n. a small animal, with very small eyes and soft fur, which burrows in the ground and casts up little heaps of mould.—v.t. to burrow or form holes in.—ns. Mole′cast; Mole′-catch′er, one whose business it is to catch moles; Mole′-crick′et, a burrowing insect like a cricket, with forelegs like those of a mole.—adj. Mole′-eyed, having eyes like those of a mole: seeing imperfectly.—ns. Mole′hill, a little hill or heap of earth cast up by a mole; Mole′rat, a rat-like animal, which burrows like a mole; Mole′skin, the skin of a mole: a superior kind of fustian, double-twilled, cropped before dyeing; Mole′-spade, a small spade used by mole-catchers; Mole′-track, the track made by a mole burrowing.—Make a mountain of a molehill, to magnify a trifling matter. [For mold-warp—A.S. molde, mould, weorpan, to warp.]

  3. Mole

    mōl, n. a breakwater: any massive building: an ancient Roman mausoleum. [Fr.,—L. moles.]

Dictionary of Nautical Terms

  1. mole

    A long pier of massy masonry, covering the entrance of a harbour. Also applied to the harbours formed by them, as those of Genoa, Marseilles, Naples, &c.

Military Dictionary and Gazetteer

  1. mole

    A mound or massive work formed of large stones laid in the sea, extended either in a right line or an arc of a circle before a port, which it serves to defend from the violence of the waves, thus protecting ships in harbor; also, sometimes the harbor itself.

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Surnames Frequency by Census Records

  1. MOLE

    According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Mole is ranked #19398 in terms of the most common surnames in America.

    The Mole surname appeared 1,393 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 0 would have the surname Mole.

    70.1% or 977 total occurrences were White.
    18.9% or 264 total occurrences were Black.
    4.7% or 66 total occurrences were of Hispanic origin.
    3.2% or 45 total occurrences were of two or more races.

Anagrams for mole »

  1. Lomé

  2. Elmo

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of mole in Chaldean Numerology is: 1

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of mole in Pythagorean Numerology is: 9

Examples of mole in a Sentence

  1. President Barack Obama:

    If we try to do everything ourselves all across the Middle East, all across North Africa, we'll be playing whack-a-mole and there'll be a whole lot of unintended consequences that ultimately make us less secure.

  2. Judy Rogg:

    It’s kind of Whack-a-Mole, if you take one down, 15 more are going to go up.

  3. Tim Squirrell:

    The consequence of that is that you can never complete the game of whack-a-mole, there's always going to be somewhere, someone circulating a Google Drive link or a Samsung cloud link or something else that allows people to access this... Once it's out in the ether, it's impossible to take everything down.

  4. Josh Cain:

    Right now we can attack ISIS all day long, but if there's not going to be a stable nation in the end, we're just playing whack-a-mole, that's probably where some work needs to be done.

  5. Gary Lewin:

    Mole rat colonies are incredibly xenophobic. If a mole rat comes from a different colony, within minutes, they are recognized and usually killed by the colony it invades.

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