shovel
A hand tool with a handle, used for moving portions of material such as earth, snow,…A hand tool with a handle, used for moving portions of material such as earth, snow, and grain from one place to another, with some forms also used for digging. In strict usage differentiated from a spade, which is designed solely for small-scale digging and incidental tasks such as chopping of small roots.
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Meaning
3 sensesA hand tool with a handle, used for moving portions of material such as earth, snow, and grain from one place to another, with some forms also used for digging. In strict usage differentiated from a spade, which is designed solely for small-scale digging and incidental tasks such as chopping of small roots.
Schaufel, Schüppe
лопа́таlopáta
лопа́таlopáta
A mechanical part of an excavator with a similar function.
(US, broadly, especially)Any shovel in the above senses, or any spade.
- a hand tool for lifting loose material; consists of a curved container or scoop and a handle
- a fire iron consisting of a small shovel used to scoop coals or ashes in a fireplace
- the quantity a shovel can hold
- a machine for excavating
Examples
183 sentencesI spent all morning shoveling snow.
Я провів весь ранок, розгрібаючи сніг. — deniko
ruЯ всё утро разгребал снег. — marafon
I don't have a shovel, but I know someone who does.
Я не маю лопати, але я знаю, хто має. — deniko
I don't have a shovel, but I know somebody who does.
Я не маю лопати, але я знаю, хто має. — deniko
Put the shovel down.
Поклади лопату. — deniko
ruПоложи лопату. — soniamiku
I hate shoveling snow.
Я ненавиджу розчищати сніг. — deniko
ruНенавижу чистить снег. — sharptoothed
deIch hasse Schneeschippen. — Pfirsichbaeumchen
Translations
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Origin
From Middle English schovele, schovel, showell, shole (> English dialectal shoul, shool),From Middle English schovele, schovel, showell, shole (> English dialectal shoul, shool), from Old English scofl (“shovel”), from Proto-Germanic *skuflō, *skūflō (“shovel”), equivalent to shove + -el (instrumental/agent suffix).
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Forms
plural: shovelsSynonyms
5 synonyms- the quantity a shovel can hold:shovelfulspadeful
- a machine for excavating:power shovelexcavatordigger
Word family
23 related wordsCollocations
4 patterns- shoveling snow
- shovel the snow
- have a shovel
- buy a shovel
See also
neighbours in the dictionaryDictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.