mole

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义
英 /məʊl/|/mɔʊl/    美 /mol/|/moʊl/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A naevus, a pigmented, slightly raised, and sometimes hairy spot on the skin.
  2. Any of several small, burrowing, insectivorous mammals of the family Talpidae.
  3. A moll, a bitch, a slut. Australia,New-Zealand,derogatory,slang
  4. A massive structure, usually of stone, used as a pier, breakwater or junction between places separated by water.
    — [Alexander the Great] then conceived the stupendous idea of constructing a mole, which should at once connect [Tyre] with the main land; and this was actually accomplished by driving piles and pouring in incalculable quantities of soil and fragments of rock; and it is generally believed, partly on the authority of ancient authors, that the whole ruins of Old Tyre were absorbed in this vast enterprize, and buried in the depths of the sea [...]
  5. 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.
  6. A hemorrhagic mass of tissue in the uterus caused by a dead ovum.
  7. Any of several spicy sauces typical of the cuisine of Mexico and neighboring Central America countries, especially one that contains chocolate and is used in cooking main dishes, not desserts. countable,uncountable
  8. Any of the burrowing rodents also called mole-rats.
  9. A haven or harbour, protected with such a breakwater. rare
  10. 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.
  11. An Ancient Roman mausoleum. historical
  12. A kind of self-propelled excavator used to form underground drains, or to clear underground pipelines.
  13. A type of underground drain used in farm fields, in which a mole plow creates an unlined channel through clay subsoil.
动词 v.
  1. To create a network of channels in (waterlogged soil) to improve drainage. transitive

词形变化

moles plural moles plural mool alternative moule alternative mowle alternative mold alternative moles present,singular,third-person moling participle,present moled participle,past moled past mool alternative moule alternative mowle alternative mold alternative moles plural moles plural moles plural mol alternative moles plural moles plural molé alternative

词汇关系

近义词
molewarp mouldwarp
衍生词
blind as a mole Brewer's mole common mole duckmole duck mole eastern mole golden mole hairy-tailed mole hairytail mole Japanese mole marsupial mole mole-bank mole bean molecast molecatcher molecatching mole crab Mole Creek mole cricket mole-eyed molehead moleheap molehill * molehunt molehunter moleish molelike moleomancy mole plough moleproof mole-rat * Mole River mole run mole salamander mole shrew * moleskin moletrap Père David's mole rat-mole rat mole Sado mole sand mole shrew mole * star-nosed mole Temminck's mole terms derived from mole Tokuda's mole Tyrrhenian mole water mole watermole whack-a-mole

词源

词源 1
From Middle English mole, mool, from Old English māl (“a mole, spot, mark, blemish”), from Proto-West Germanic *mail, from Proto-Germanic *mailą (“spot, wrinkle”), from Proto-Indo-European *mel-, *melw- (“dark, dirty”), from Proto-Indo-European *mey-, *my- (“to soil, sully”).
Cognate with Scots mail (“spot, stain”), Saterland Frisian Moal (“scar”), German dialectal Meil (“spot, stain, blemish”), Gothic 𐌼𐌰𐌹𐌻 (mail, “spot, blemish”).
词源 2
From Middle English molle, molde, mole (“mole”), ultimately from Proto-West Germanic *mol(h), from Proto-Germanic *mulaz, *mulhaz (“mole, salamander”), from Proto-Indo-European *molg-, *molk- (“slug, salamander”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)melw- (“to grind, crush, beat”).
Cognate with North Frisian mull (“mole”), Saterland Frisian Molle (“mole”), Dutch mol (“mole”), German Low German Mol, Mul, Mull (“mole”), German Molch (“salamander, newt”), Old Russian смолжь (smolžʹ, “snail”), Czech mlž (“clam”).
Derivation as an abbreviation of Middle English molewarpe, a variation of moldewarpe, moldwerp (“mole”) in Middle English is unexplained and probably unlikely due to the simultaneous occurrence of both words. See mouldwarp.
词源 3
From moll (from Moll, an archaic nickname for Mary), influenced by the spelling of the word mole (“an internal spy”), and due to /mɒl/ and /məʊl/ merging as [ˈmɔʊɫ] in the Australian accent.
词源 4
From French môle or Latin mōles (“mass, heap, rock”).
词源 5
Calqued from German Mol; spelled as if it had come directly from molecule or Latin moles (the ultimate source of Mol and molecule in any event).
词源 6
In English since before the 20th century. From French môle f, from Latin mola (“millstone”), because it is a hardened mass.
词源 7
From Spanish mole, from Classical Nahuatl mōlli (“sauce; stew; something ground”).
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