shovel

Từ điển Oxford Learners Wordfinder Dictionary

I - noun

1. a hand tool for lifting loose material;
consists of a curved container or scoop and a handle (Freq. 2)
• Hypernyms:
hand tool
• Hyponyms:
hand shovel, posthole digger, post-hole digger, scoop, scoop shovel
2. the quantity a shovel can hold
• Syn:
shovelful, spadeful
• Hypernyms:
containerful
3. a fire iron consisting of a small shovel used to scoop coals or ashes in a fireplace
• Hypernyms:
fire iron
4. a machine for excavating
• Syn:
power shovel, excavator, digger
• Derivationally related forms:
dig (for: digger), excavate (for: excavator)
• Hypernyms:
machine
• Hyponyms:
backhoe, dredge, steam shovel

II - verb

dig with or as if with a shovel (Freq. 1)
- shovel sand
- he shovelled in the backyard all afternoon long
• See Also:
shovel in
• Derivationally related forms:
shoveler
• Hypernyms:
dig, delve, cut into, turn over
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s
- Somebody ----s something
- Somebody ----s something PP

• Từ đồng nghĩa / Synonyms:
  power shovel, excavator, digger, shovelful, spadeful