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Definition: Vole |
VoleNoun1. 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. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "vole" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1677. (references) |
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Literature | Vole He has gone the vole- i.e. been everything by turns. Vole is a deal at cards that draws the whole tricks. The verb vole means to win all the tricks. Vole is a French word Faire la vole- i.e. "Faire soul toutes les levées," de voler- i.e. enlever. "Who is he [Edie Ochiltree]? Why, he has gone the vole- has been soldier, ballad-singer, travelling tinker, and now a beggar."- Sir W. Scott: The Antiquary, chap. iv. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
Mining | The place where tin ore is stored to be dried before being put into asmelting furnace. Syn:vol. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Synonym: VoleSynonym: field mouse (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Vole |
| English words defined with "vole": Arvicola amphibius ♦ Field vole ♦ meadow vole, Microtus ochrogaster ♦ pine mouse, pine vole, Pitymys pinetorum, prairie vole ♦ redback vole, Richardson vole ♦ Snow mouse ♦ water rat, water vole. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "vole": Dolly Murrey. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Vole" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. Czech (craw, crop, goitre), French (steals, vole), Manx (vole). |
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Screenplays | I am Christine Vole. (Witness for the Prosecution; writing credit: Agatha Christie; Larry Marcus) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Agenor et la main qui vole (1920) Bout-de-Zan vole un éléphant (1913) | |
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Health | These include El Moro Canyon virus associated with the western harvest mouse (Reithrodontomys megalotis), Tula virus with Microtus arvalis and M. rossiaemeridionalis, Rio Segundo virus with the Mexican harvest mouse (R. mexicanus), Isla Vista virus with the California vole (M. californicus), and Prospect Hill-like viruses in Microtus species. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Vole" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 95.16% of the time. "Vole" is used about 124 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 95.16% | 118 | 29,674 |
| Noun (proper) | 4.84% | 6 | 143,867 |
| Total | 100.00% | 124 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "vole": Field vole ♦ meadow vole ♦ pine vole ♦ prairie vole ♦ redback vole ♦ Richardson vole ♦ water vole. Additional references. | |
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Beginning with "vole": vole-like. | |
Ending with "vole": field-vole, water-vole. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
vole | 250 | pine vole | 4 |
vole control | 23 | extermination vole | 3 |
meadow vole | 16 | bait vole | 3 |
picture vole | 16 | vole animal | 3 |
rodent vole | 11 | poison vole | 3 |
photo vole | 9 | bank vole | 3 |
vole trap | 6 | control mole vole | 2 |
celine dion vole | 5 | mole vole | 2 |
castor de la vole | 4 | skeleton vole | 2 |
prairie vole | 4 | damage vole | 2 |
montane vole | 4 | celine dion musique vole | 2 |
water vole | 4 | ||
celine dion musique vole | 2 | ||
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "vole"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | mi fushe. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | فأر الحقل (field mouse). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | спечелване на всичко, голям шлем (grand slam), полевка. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | hraboš. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | sydmarkmus (common vole, field mouse), roedmus (bank vole, common red backed mouse), mosegris (black water rat, water rat, water vole), jordrotte (black water rat, water rat, water vole), almindelig markmus (brown vole, common field mouse, European field vole, field vole, grass mouse, Highland grass mouse, meadow mouse, short-tailded field mouse). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | veldmuis (common vole, field mouse), woelrat (black water rat, water rat, water vole), rosse woelmuis (bank vole, common red backed mouse), rose woelmuis (bank vole, common red backed mouse), ondergrondse woelmuis (pine vole, subterranean vole), aardmuis (brown vole, common field mouse, European field vole, field vole, grass mouse, Highland grass mouse, meadow mouse, short-tailded field mouse). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | myyrä (mole). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | vole, campagnol. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Wühlmaus (root vole, subversive). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | κερδίζω εισ χαρτοπαίγνιον, βολά, είδοσ ποντικού (guinea pig, shrew), αρουραίοσ (rat). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | ברן (fieldmouse, rodent). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | mezei egér (Field mouse, fieldmice, fieldmouse). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | cappotto (coat, greatcoat, overcoat, paletot). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | vole, mooar-lugh. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | olevay variedade de arganaz (volt), ratazana (dorothy bag, loiter, rat, volt), ganho total (volt), capote (bonnet, cloak, cowl, greatcoat, hood, lurch, mantle, volt). (various references) полевка. (various references) poljski miš (Field mouse, harvest mouse), dobijanje svih štihova. (various references) campañol (fieldmouse). (various references) sork (Field mouse). (various references) vale (Jack, knave), tarla faresi (Field mouse, meadow mouse). (various references) польова миша (field mouse). (various references) chuột microtut. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | Arvicola terrestris, Clethrionomys glareolus, Evotomys glareolus, Microtus agrestis, Microtus arvalis, Microtus nivalis, Pitymus subterranea, Pitymys multiplex, Pitymys savii, Pitymys subterraneus, RM:mieur-sfuigna champestra, RM:mieur-sfuigna cotschna, RM:mieur-sfuigna da Fatio, RM:mieur-sfuigna da Savi, RM:mieur-sfuigna pailusa, RM:mieur-sfuigna pitschna, RM:mieur-sfuigna sblatga, RM:mieurun. (various references) |
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Derivations | |
Words beginning with "vole": voled, voleries, volery, voles. (additional references) | |
Words containing "vole": benevolence, benevolences, benevolent, benevolently, benevolentness, benevolentnesses, frivoled, frivoler, frivolers, malevolence, malevolences, malevolent, malevolently. (additional references) | |
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"Vole" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: avol, evole, ovole, ovoli, ovolo, valde, valel, valen, valle, vally, Velbe, velde, velle, velo, vilde, vileh, vilen, vili, vilie, ville, vlex, vli, vo, voal, vobe, vobla, voble, vocem, vode, voel, voge, voie, voke, vol, vola, volaz, volb, vold, volde, voled, voleh, volem, volet, volex, voley, volez, volf, volk, Volke, voll, volla, volle, volli, Volmer, volne, volo, volp, Volpedo, vols, voltex, volu, volve, vone, vool, vope, vore, vose, vould, voule, voulez, voulle, vowe, voxe, voye, voyle, vple, Vsoe, vtol, vue, vuel, vula, vule, Vulg, vulle, vulve. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: levo, love. | |
| Words within the letters "e-l-o-v" | |
-1 letter: lev, ole, voe. | |
-2 letters: el, lo, oe. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-l-o-v" | |
+1 letter: clove, glove, hovel, laevo, loved, lover, loves, novel, olive, ovule, solve, voile, voled, voles, volte, vowel. | |
+2 letters: alcove, cloven, clover, cloves, coeval, elevon, evolve, foveal, gloved, glover, gloves, grovel, hovels, loaves, louver, louvre, lovage, lovely, lovers, novels, olives, overly, ovules, plover, revolt, shovel, sloven, solved, solver, solves, veloce, velour, violet, voiles, volery, volley, voltes, volume, volute, vowels, wolver, wolves. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)56 6F 6C 65 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)...- --- .-.. . |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010110 01101111 01101100 01100101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)V o l e |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0056 006F 006C 0065 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)56817871 |
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