molenoun [ C ]
uk/məʊl/us/moʊl/mole noun [ C ] (ANIMAL)
a small mammal that is almost blind, has dark fur, and lives in passages that it digs underground
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Rodents & similar animals
- beaver
- bunny
- chinchilla
- chipmunk
- coney
- cony
- coypu
- gopher
- groundhog
- guinea pig
- hamster
- hare
- marmot
- mice
- mouse
- prairie dog
- rabbit
- rat
- vole
- woodchuck
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mole noun [ C ] (SPOT)
a small, dark spot or lump (= raised area) on a person's skin
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freckle
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The skin, & skin colour
- beauty spot
- blanch
- coloring
- cutaneous
- dermatome
- dermis
- drain
- follicle
- goosebumps
- half-caste
- ink
- jaundiced
- pale
- pallid
- sallow
- skin graft
- swarthy
- wan
- waxen
- wrinkled
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mole noun [ C ] (PERSON)
a person who works for an organization or government and secretly gives information to its competitor or enemy:
A mole inside the Department had leaked secret proposals to the press.
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spy noun
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International relations: spying and espionage
- agent
- agent provocateur
- counter-espionage
- counterintelligence
- deep state
- intelligence
- MI5
- MI6
- on the inside idiom
- operative
- phone tapping
- scout
- snoop
- spook
- spy
- spy on sb/sth
- tail
- tap
- the CIA
- wired up
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mole noun [ C ] (MEASUREMENT)
specialized chemistry a unit of measurement of the amount of a substance expressed in grams
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Miscellaneous units of measurement
- acre
- becquerel
- caloric
- calorific
- curie
- farad
- flashpoint
- Gy
- hectare
- horsepower
- kilohertz
- kilojoule
- lumen
- MHz
- millibar
- molal
- molar
- newton
- SI unit
- watt
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