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Meaning of "Mohole" in the English dictionary

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ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD MOHOLE

From Moho( rovičić ) + hole.
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PRONUNCIATION OF MOHOLE

Mohole  [ˈməʊˌhəʊl] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF MOHOLE

noun
adjective
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pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Mohole is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES MOHOLE MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Project Mohole

Project Mohole was an ambitious attempt to drill through the Earth's crust into the Mohorovičić discontinuity, and to provide an Earth science complement to the high-profile Space Race. The project was initially led by the American Miscellaneous Society with funding from the National Science Foundation.

Definition of Mohole in the English dictionary

The definition of Mohole in the dictionary is an abandoned research project to drill through the earth's crust down to the Mohorovičić discontinuity to obtain samples of mantle rocks.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH MOHOLE


airhole
ˈɛəˌhəʊl
asshole
ˈæsˌhəʊl
blowhole
ˈbləʊˌhəʊl
borehole
ˈbɔːˌhəʊl
keyhole
ˈkiːˌhəʊl
knothole
ˈnɒtˌhəʊl
loophole
ˈluːpˌhəʊl
manhole
ˈmænˌhəʊl
mudhole
ˈmʌdˌhəʊl
pie-hole
ˈpaɪˌhəʊl
pigeonhole
ˈpɪdʒɪnˌhəʊl
pinhole
ˈpɪnˌhəʊl
porthole
ˈpɔːtˌhəʊl
posthole
ˈpəʊstˌhəʊl
pothole
ˈpɒtˌhəʊl
rathole
ˈrætˌhəʊl
sinkhole
ˈsɪŋkˌhəʊl
suckhole
ˈsʌkˌhəʊl
thumbhole
ˈθʌmˌhəʊl
wormhole
ˈwɜːmˌhəʊl

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE MOHOLE

Mohammed Ali
Mohammed II
Mohammed Reza Pahlavi
Mohammedan
Mohammedanise
Mohammedanism
Mohammedanize
Moharram
Mohave
Mohave Desert
mohawk
mohel
Mohenjo-Daro
mohican
Mohilev
Moho
Mohock
Moholy-Nagy
Mohr´s circle
Mohs scale

WORDS THAT END LIKE MOHOLE

air hole
arsehole
as a whole
black hole
buttonhole
Committee of the Whole
cubbyhole
doughnut hole
downhole
glory hole
hole
in the hole
on the whole
ozone hole
rabbit hole
sound hole
thole
toad-in-the-hole
watering hole
whole

Synonyms and antonyms of Mohole in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «Mohole» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF MOHOLE

Find out the translation of Mohole to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of Mohole from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «Mohole» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

Mohole
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

Mohole
570 millions of speakers

English

Mohole
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

Mohole
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

Mohole
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

Mohole
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

Mohole
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

Mohole
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

Mohole
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Mohole
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Mohole
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

Mohole
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

Mohole
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Mohole
85 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Vietnamese

Mohole
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

Mohole
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

मोहोले
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Mohole
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

Mohole
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

Mohole
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

Mohole
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

Mohole
30 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Greek

Mohole
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

Mohole
14 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Swedish

Mohole
10 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Norwegian

Mohole
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of Mohole

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «MOHOLE»

The term «Mohole» is normally little used and occupies the 132.398 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «MOHOLE» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «Mohole» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «Mohole» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about Mohole

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «MOHOLE»

Discover the use of Mohole in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to Mohole and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Why the Mohole: adventures in inner space
A description of the Mohole project, its purpose, how it is being carried out, and what it hopes to achieve, as told by an active participant in the project.
William J. Cromie, 1964
2
The mohole menace
Chris Godfrey must send one of his crew into a cavern 21 miles underground to discover the source of a bacteria that has already caused a death.
Hugh Walters, 1968
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The National Academy of Sciences: The First Hundred Years, ...
ill-fated venture after its initial success, Project Mohole, though it had not delivered a single fragment of upper mantle rock, was nevertheless intrinsically sound and scientifically important."5 And as the Chairman of the Academy — Research ...
Rexmond Canning Cochrane, 1978
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Offshore Pioneers: Brown & Root and the History of Offshore ...
CHAPTER. 7. Mind. Stretcher. of. the. Century: Project. Mohole. Project Mohole was a U.S. government-sponsored effort in the late 1950s and early 1960s to drill down to the earth's lower crust and upper mantle to learn more about the interior  ...
Joseph A. Pratt, Tyler Priest, Christopher J. Castaneda, 1997
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The Politics of Pure Science
26 (elimination of funds for Mohole project). These actions cleared bill for President's signature." On the following day, not quite a decade after Walter Munk suggested that a hole be drilled through the crust of the earth, the National Science ...
Daniel S. Greenberg, 1999
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American Magic and Dread: Don DeLillo's Dialogue with Culture
Joining Hemispheres Chapters 9 and 10, "Composite Structure" and "Opposites," portray a new set of "monsters," including the ambiguous Orang Mohole and the ancient Ratner.18 Now Billy's adventures begin to converge, as his interlocutors  ...
Mark Osteen, 2000
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Upper Mantle Project: Report
Project Mohole, which has been under way for some years, will be a major contribution to the United States program for ... The ultimate objective of the Mohole project is to obtain a sample of the earth's upper mantle by drilling a hole through ...
U.S. Upper Mantle Committee, 1962
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New Scientist
Figure 3. Model of the Brown and Root design for the Mohole drilling platform. The design has benefited from experience gained by the oil industry with similar platforms. It calls for a six-column platform standing on two cylindrical lower hulls,  ...
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Oceanographers and the Cold War: Sisciples of Marine Science
Sisciples of Marine Science Jacob Darwin Hamblin. 57. asi-76,57. 58. Harry Hess to George Kistiakowsky, 15 Feb 1960, hhhp, box 12, folder “amsoc-mohole General Correspondence 1960.” 59. Willard Bascom to Editor, New York Times, 18 ...
Jacob Darwin Hamblin, 2005
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LIFE
AUTHOR STEINBECK AND PHOTOGRAPHER GORO ON DECK OF THE CUSS I Last week Project Mohole (LIFE, April 7) made scientific history when its drilling barge, CUSS I (whose name is made up of the initials of oil companies who ...

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «MOHOLE»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term Mohole is used in the context of the following news items.
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Journey to the center of the earth
... to begin in the summer of 1965 on a huge floating platform that would support the diamond-tipped drill for “Operation Mohole” man's attempt, ... «Sandusky Register, Apr 15»
2
Ask Smithsonian: What's the Deepest Hole Ever Dug?
Scientists took their first crack at the mantle in 1958 with Project Mohole. American engineers drilled through the Pacific Ocean floor off ... «Smithsonian, Feb 15»
3
OHLONE COLLEGE'S CLASS OF 2014
... Elise M. Menicou, Austin James Miller, Hector Miramontes, Andy Xavier Mitchell, Yashar M. Mohammadi, Neelam Mohole, Shay Le Mozzetti, ... «San Jose Mercury News, Jun 14»
4
Journeys to the Center of the Earth
Mohole fell far short of its target, reaching a depth of just 601 feet after five years of drilling under more than 11,000 feet of water. The Soviets ... «Discover Magazine, Jun 14»
5
William Cromie, 1930-2014
He went on to cover the manned space programme and the Mohole Project, which tried unsuccessfully to drill a hole through the crust of the Earth. He produced ... «Times Higher Education, Jun 14»
6
John Steinbeck's 1966 Plea To Create A NASA For The Oceans
Several years ago I went along as an observer on the Mohole Project. You remember that was the expedition which put down a drill string to ... «Popular Science, May 14»
7
Matfield, Burger, Brussow back
... lock Lood de Jager, looseforwards Jacques du Plessis and Teboho "Oupa" Mohole, flyhalf Marnitz Boshoff, centre Damien de Allende and ... «BDlive, May 14»
8
Beneath this Metal Cap is the World's Deepest Hole
While American researchers faltered with Project Mohole, a dig off the coast of Mexico that ran out of funding in 1966, their Russian ... «Slate Magazine, May 14»
9
Bay Area community college students awarded transfer scholarships …
... Dominique Yancey Piens of Oakland's Laney College, Janis Hatchl of Pittsburg's Los Medanos College and Jyodi Mohole of Santa Clara's ... «Contra Costa Times, Apr 14»
10
NextBee Integrates Customer Loyalty Programs with Leading CRM …
“Creating an easy-to-use and integrated solution was important to us and our clients,” says Ashish Mohole, founder and CEO of NextBee. «PR Web, Dec 13»

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