Difference between Mole and Badger

What is the difference between Mole and Badger?

Mole as a noun is a pigmented spot on the skin, a naevus, slightly raised, and sometimes hairy. while Badger as a noun is a common name for any mammal of three subfamilies, which belong to the family mustelidae: melinae (eurasian badgers), mellivorinae (ratel or honey badger), and taxideinae (american badger).

Mole

Part of speech: noun

Definition: A pigmented spot on the skin, a naevus, slightly raised, and sometimes hairy. Any of several small, burrowing insectivores of the family Talpidae. Any of the burrowing rodents also called mole rats. An internal spy, a person who involves himself or herself with an organization to determine its secrets from within. Bitch, spiteful female.— Australian variant of the word "moll", altered in spelling due to contamination with the above meaning ("spy", "sneaky person"), and due to /mɒl/ and /məʊl/ merging as [moʊl] in the Australian accent. The original spelling ("moll") can also be used in this sense. A massive structure, usually of stone, used as a pier, breakwater or junction between places separated by water. A haven or harbour, protected with a breakwater. In the International System of Units, the base unit of amount of substance; the amount of substance of a system which contains as many elementary entities as there are atoms in 0.012 kg of carbon-12. Symbol: mol. The number of atoms is known as Avogadro's number A hemorrhagic mass of tissue in the uterus caused by a dead ovum. A sauce containing chocolate and used in cooking of Mexico and neighboring Central America.

Example sentence: They sent me some tapes of the original Mole and I thought it was pretty intriguing. I'm sort of an experimenter; I thought it'd be interesting to play around and see what's there. It was fun. Turned out to be good.

Badger

Part of speech: noun

Definition: A common name for any mammal of three subfamilies, which belong to the family Mustelidae: Melinae (Eurasian badgers), Mellivorinae (Ratel or honey badger), and Taxideinae (American badger).A native or resident of the American State of Wisconsin.A crew of desperate villains who robbed near rivers, into which they threw the bodies of those they murdered.A person who makes badges.

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To pester, to annoy persistently.To pass gas; to fart.

Example sentence: Governor Scott Walker didn't know who he was messing with when he picked a fight with the hard-working union folks of Wisconsin. He must have forgotten that Wisconsin is the Badger State. And badgers are scrappy little creatures. We may look cute, warm and fuzzy, but we have a fighting spirit.

We hope you now know whether to use Mole or Badger in your sentence.

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