Mole vs. Vole — What's the Difference?

A small burrowing mammal with dark velvety fur, a long muzzle, and very small eyes, feeding mainly on worms, grubs, and other invertebrates.

Voles are small rodents that are relatives of lemmings and hamsters, but with a stouter body; a shorter, hairy tail; a slightly rounder head; smaller ears and eyes; and differently formed molars (high-crowned with angular cusps instead of low-crowned with rounded cusps). They are sometimes known as meadow mice or field mice in North America.

A spy who gradually achieves an important position within the security defences of a country

Any of various rodents of the genus Microtus and related genera, found throughout much of the Northern Hemisphere and having a short muzzle and tail and small ears.

A small, often slightly raised blemish on the skin made dark by a high concentration of melanin

The winning of all the tricks during the play of one hand, as of bridge; a grand slam.

A large solid structure on a shore serving as a pier, breakwater, or causeway.

Any of a large number of species of small rodents of the subfamily Arvicolinae of the family Cricetidae which are not lemmings or muskrats.

The SI unit of amount of substance, equal to the quantity containing as many elementary units as there are atoms in 0.012 kg of carbon-12.

A deal in a card game, écarté, that draws all the tricks.

An abnormal mass of tissue in the uterus.

To win all the tricks by a vole.

A highly spiced Mexican sauce made chiefly from chilli peppers and chocolate, served with meat.

A deal at cards that draws all the tricks.

A skin lesion, commonly a nevus, that is typically raised and discolored.

Any one of numerous species of micelike rodents belonging to Arvicola and allied genera of the subfamily Arvicolinæ. They have a thick head, short ears, and a short hairy tail.

Any of various small insectivorous mammals of the family Talpidae of North America and Eurasia, usually living underground and having a thickset body with light brown to dark gray silky fur, strong forefeet for burrowing, and often rudimentary eyes.

To win all the tricks by a vole.

A machine that bores through hard surfaces, used especially for tunneling through rock.

Any of various small mouselike rodents of the family Cricetidae (especially of genus Microtus) having a stout short-tailed body and inconspicuous ears and inhabiting fields or meadows

A spy who operates from within an organization, especially a double agent operating against that agent's own government from within its intelligence establishment.

A massive, usually stone wall constructed in the sea, used as a breakwater and built to enclose or protect an anchorage or a harbor.

The anchorage or harbor enclosed by a mole.

A fleshy abnormal mass formed in the uterus by the degeneration or abortive development of an ovum.

In the International System, the base unit used in representing an amount of a substance, equal to the amount of that substance that contains as many atoms, molecules, ions, or other elementary units as the number of atoms in 0.012 kilogram of carbon-12. The number is 6.0221 × 1023, or Avogadro's number. See Table at measurement.

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

Any of several small, burrowing insectivores of the family Talpidae; also any of southern African mammals in the family Chrysochloridae (golden moles) and any of several Australian mammals in the family Notoryctidae (marsupial moles), similar to but not closely related to Talpidae moles

Any of the burrowing rodents also called mole-rats.

(espionage) 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.

A kind of self-propelled excavator used to form underground drains, or to clear underground pipelines

A type of underground drain used in farm fields, in which a mole plow creates an unlined channel through clay subsoil.

A moll, a bitch, a slut.

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

(rare) A haven or harbour, protected with such a breakwater.

(historical) An Ancient Roman mausoleum.

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

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

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

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 Talpidæ. They have minute eyes and ears, soft fur, and very large and strong fore feet.

A plow of peculiar construction, for forming underground drains.

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

A quantity of a substance equal to the molecular weight of a substance expressed in grams; a gram molecule; the basic unit of amount of substance adopted under the System International d'Unites; as, he added two moles of sodium chloride to the medium.

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

To clear of molehills.

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

A spy who works against enemy espionage

Spicy sauce often containing chocolate

A small congenital pigmented spot on the skin

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

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