Definition of Mole

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Definition of Mole

Mole

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

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.

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

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.

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

A plow of peculiar construction, for forming underground drains.

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

To clear of molehills.

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Mole Quotations

I also love Mole, the unsung hero of reality programming.
Kathy Griffin

Man can now fly in the air like a bird, swim under the ocean like a fish, he can burrow into the ground like a mole. Now if only he could walk the earth like a man, this would be paradise.
Tommy Douglas

They sent me some tapes of the original Mole and I thought it was pretty intriguing. I'm sort of an experimenter; I thought it'd be interesting to play around and see what's there. It was fun. Turned out to be good.
Corbin Bernsen

The Mole had long wanted to make the I acquaintance of the Badger. He seemed, by all accounts, to be such an important personage and, though rarely visible, to make his unseen influence felt by everybody about the place.
Kenneth Grahame

I always hated my mole growing up. I even thought about having it removed. At the time I didn't do it because I thought it would hurt, and now I'm glad I didn't.
Niki Taylor

The president said that this is not removing a mole. You know, removing a mole, that's an outpatient sort of an operation. This was removing a cancer, removing a cancer takes more time.
Gordon England

I've got a big mole on my butt. It's true.
Gedde Watanabe

Mole Translations

mole in Afrikaans is mol
mole in Danish is muldvarp
mole in Dutch is mol
mole in French is taupe
mole in German is Maulwurf
mole in Portuguese is toupeira
mole in Spanish is lunar
mole in Swedish is mullvad

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