English | German | Russian | Czech
Englishfor English speakers
Englishas a second language

shovel English

Meaning shovel meaning

What does shovel mean?
Definitions in simple English

shovel Noun

— a shovel is an object made for scooping or digging

shovel Verb

— If you shovel, you use a shovel. He had to shovel the snow off of their driveway.

shovel

— noun a hand tool for lifting loose material; consists of a curved container or scoop and a handle — verb dig with or as if with a shovel shovel sand he shovelled in the backyard all afternoon long — noun a fire iron consisting of a small shovel used to scoop coals or ashes in a fireplace — noun the quantity a shovel can hold — noun (= power shovel) a machine for excavating

Synonyms shovel synonyms

What other words have the same or similar meaning as shovel?

shovel English » English

spade scoop trowel power shovel hoe digger spadeful shovelful scoop up ladle excavator sock plowshare mattock steam navvy spoon single-bucket excavator single bucket excavator shuffle shovel hat shovel dredger serve food scoop shovel sack ridge rake put on poker pitch pickaxe paddle onebucket excavator one-bucket excavator monobucket excavator gather up excavate dredger shovel drag shovel dish out digging tool dig burrow bring together bore banjo backing-off backhoe ammunition French kiss

Topics shovel topics

What do people use shovel to talk about?
Physical actions Divide into pieces

Dig
Universe, creation Sky Weather

Snow, ice
Work and occupation Agriculture

Agricultural tool
Work and occupation Occupation

Working with land
Work and occupation Tool Cutting tool

Digging tool

Conjugation shovel conjugation

How do you conjugate shovel?

shovel · verb

Examples shovel examples

How do I use shovel in a sentence?

Simple sentences

He dug a hole using a shovel.
He went to the hardware store to get a shovel.
Do you want me to fix your broken shovel or don't you?
I dug a huge pit with my shovel in just one day.
It was so hot in Australia yesterday that Tom managed to fry an egg on a shovel.
Mary filled her bucket with sand using a plastic shovel.
How much did you have to pay Tom to get him to shovel the snow off your roof?
Do you have a snow shovel?
Tom helped his dad shovel the driveway.
Tom dug a hole with a pick and a shovel.
A shovel full of snow can weigh as much as 20 pounds.
Tom dug a hole in his backyard with the shovel Mary had given him.
Pretty soon along came a steam shovel and dug a road through the hill covered with daisies.
They were clearing the snow from the sidewalk with a shovel.
Throw the shovel!
It'll take some time to shovel all the snow off the roof.
Do you have a shovel I can borrow?
The worker is carrying sand with a shovel.
Give me the shovel.
Put the shovel down.

Movie subtitles

I am not going to shovel!
Ah, now whom are you ordering to shovel?
Take this shovel and dig a grave!
Get back there. That's only an old shovel.
Their tools are rudimentary: pickaxe and shovel.
You'd better quit while you still have the price of a pick and shovel, dude.
He got a knife in me and I laid him out with a shovel.
I notice you shovel in plenty of it.
Paul, Benny, grab a shovel.
Give me that shovel.
Could I have my shovel, sir?
I'll get you a bigger shovel.
Your shovel.
You could hold a shovel!
Shovel, axe, dynamite, pineapples?
You got the shovel, the axe and the pick?
This is like trying to shovel quicksand.
With a coal shovel, old cans.
There was a man with an anvil. And. a woman carrying a shovel.
Now, listen, if you aren't out of town in six hours you'll spend 60 days with a pick and shovel.
That's where you come in, buddy. Make with the shovel. - Me?
Make with the shovel. Come on.
Now, smart guy, shovel every lump of that coal into that boiler.
Would you mind handing me my shovel?
What's wrong with the steam shovel?
Get a shovel and my Bible.
And for the shovel.
There was a man with an anvil. And. a woman carrying a shovel. - And.
Say, where's your pick and shovel?
We was drunk. He got a knife in me and I laid him out with a shovel.
They hand him a shovel, tell him to dig.
When he's dug deep enough. they tell him to put the shovel down, smoke a cigarette and say his prayers.
Couldn't you shovel the car out yourself?
Bobby, go up and get the shovel, we'll just dig it a little bit, that's all.
Here's the shovel, Dad.
Get the shovel and the jack up on the beach out of this water.
You don't belong on the end of a shovel.

News and current affairs

On the left, a preoccupation with Keynesian stimulus reflects a misunderstanding of both the availability of measures (shovel-ready projects) and their desirability (whether they will meaningfully change the expectations of households and businesses).
An infrastructure program oriented in this way - as opposed to a grab bag of politically expedient shovel-ready projects - should be able to muster conservative support.
It is the inevitable formula for recovery - one shovel load at a time.

Are you looking for...?

shovel dozer | shover | shoved | shovel excavator | shove | shovel hat | shove along | shove away | shovelware | shove back | shovelomics | shove by
Wordcyclopedia Gutes Wörterbuch Толстый словарь Dobrý slovník
Sources WordNet, Open Multilingual Wordnet, Wiktionary, Dbnary, Panlex, FreeLing, Tatoeba, OpenSubtitles.org, Project Syndicate, OPUS, Kelly Project, SIL Semantic Domains
Contact info@wordcyclopedia.com
Creative Commons BY-SA