different between vole vs stoat

English

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Norn [Term?], from Old Norse v?llr (“field”), q.v. The Orkney dialectal name vole mouse, lit. "field mouse", was introduced to general English by George Barry in 1805; John Fleming in 1828 was first to refer to the creature by the epithet vole alone. Displaced earlier names for these species which also classified them as mice, e.g. short-tailed field mouse.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?v??l/
• Rhymes: -??l

Noun

vole (plural voles)

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

Derived terms

• volelike
• water vole

Translations

Etymology 2

French [Term?]

Noun

vole (plural voles)

1. A deal in a card game, écarté, that draws all the tricks.
   • 1731, Jonathan Swift, Verses on the Death of Dr Swift

     Ladies, I'll venture for the vole.

Verb

vole (third-person singular simple present voles, present participle voling, simple past and past participle voled)

1. (card games, intransitive) To win all the tricks by a vole.

   • no lad shall chuck, or lady vole, But some excising Courtier will have toll.

Further reading

• vole on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• Love, levo, levo-, love, velo-, voël

Alemannic German

Alternative forms

• voll

Etymology

From Middle High German vol, voll, from Old High German foll, from Proto-Germanic *fullaz. Cognate with German voll, Dutch vol, English full, Icelandic fullur.

Adjective

vole (comparative völler, superlative völlscht)

1. full

Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?v?l?/

Etymology 1

See the etymology of the main entry.

Noun

vole

1. vocative singular of v?l

Interjection

vole

1. (informal) man, dude

Usage notes

This interjection is considered vulgar by some people, its primary meaning being "you ass"; however, it is today quite frequently used in very informal speech without any vulgar overtones, either as a friendly address or as an emphasizer; some people lard their talk with it without its having any meaning (similarly to the way some people use "fuck" in English, but "vole" is not so strong). It is often used in the form "ty vole".

Etymology 2

From Proto-Slavic [Term?] with unclear origin; possibly related to German schwellen, Wulst.

Noun

vole n

1. crop, craw (pouch-like part of the alimentary tract of some birds)
2. (obsolete) goitre

   Synonym: struma

Declension

Etymology 3

See the etymology of the main entry.

Verb

vole

1. masculine singular present transgressive of volit

References

Further reading

• vole in P?íru?ní slovník jazyka ?eského, 1935–1957
• vole in Slovník spisovného jazyka ?eského, 1960–1971, 1989

Esperanto

Pronunciation

Adverb

vole

1. voluntarily

Derived terms

• vole nevole (“voluntarily or involuntarily, like it or lump it”)

Related terms

• vola (“voluntary”)
• voli (“to want, wish”)
• volo (“volition; one's wish”)

French

Verb

vole

1. inflection of voler:
   1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
   2. second-person singular imperative

Anagrams

• love, lové
• vélo

Interlingua

Verb

vole

1. present of voler
2. imperative of voler

Italian

Verb

vole

1. (archaic) third-person singular indicative present of volere

Synonyms

• vuole

Anagrams

• levo, levò, velo, velò

Serbo-Croatian

Noun

vole

1. vocative singular of vol

Verb

vole (Cyrillic spelling ????)

1. third-person plural present indicative of voljeti

Volapük

Noun

vole

1. dative singular of vol

English

Etymology

[Mid 1400s], from Middle English stote (“the ermine, especially in its brown summer coat”), of uncertain origin. The word bears some resemblance to Old Norse stutr (“bull”), Swedish stut (“bull, steer”) and Danish stud (“steer”) (see also English stot), but the semantic link is difficult unless a common origin is from “(brown?) male mammal”.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?st??t/
• Rhymes: -??t

Noun

stoat (plural stoats)

1. Mustela erminea, the ermine or short-tailed weasel, a mustelid native to Eurasia and North America, distinguished from the least weasel by its larger size and longer tail with a prominent black tip.

   Synonyms: clubster, (especially when in white winter coat) ermine, (US) short-tailed weasel

Translations

Further reading

• stoat on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• TOAST, stato-, tasto, toast, toats, totas