mole
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noun- 1.
A naevus, a pigmented, slightly raised, and sometimes hairy spot on the skin.
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Any of several small, burrowing, insectivorous mammals of the family Talpidae.
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Any of the burrowing rodents also called mole-rats.
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(espionage) An internal spy; a person who involves themself with an enemy organisation, especially an intelligence or governmental organisation, to determine and betray its secrets from within.
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A kind of self-propelled excavator used to form underground drains, or to clear underground pipelines.
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A type of underground drain used in farm fields, in which a mole plow creates an unlined channel through clay subsoil.
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(Australia, New Zealand, derogatory, slang)(slang, derogatory, chiefly Australia and New Zealand) A moll, a bitch, a slut.
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(nautical) A massive structure, usually of stone, used as a pier, breakwater or junction between places separated by water.
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(rare)A haven or harbour, protected with such a breakwater.
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(historical)An Ancient Roman mausoleum.
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(chemistry, physics) In the International System of Units, the base unit of amount of substance; the amount of substance of a system which contains exactly 6.02214076×10²³ elementary entities (atoms, ions, molecules, etc.). Symbol: mol. The number of atoms is known as Avogadro’s number. [from 1897]
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A hemorrhagic mass of tissue in the uterus caused by a dead ovum.
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verb- 1.
(transitive)To create a network of channels in (waterlogged soil) to improve drainage.
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right|thumb|A mole (naevus) From Middle English mole, mool, from Old English māl (a mole, spot, mark, blemish), from *mail, from Proto-Germanic *mailą (spot, wrinkle), from Proto-Indo-European *mel-, *melw- (dark, dirty), from Proto-Indo-European *mey-, *my- (to soil, sully).