What's the difference between shovel and shoveler?

Shovel


Definition:

  • (v. t.) An implement consisting of a broad scoop, or more or less hollow blade, with a handle, used for lifting and throwing earth, coal, grain, or other loose substances.
  • (v. t.) To take up and throw with a shovel; as, to shovel earth into a heap, or into a cart, or out of a pit.
  • (v. t.) To gather up as with a shovel.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In autumn, leaf-heaps composted themselves on sunken patios, and were shovelled up by irritated owners of basement flats.
  • (2) About 4,000 government-issued shovels were handed out in several main piazzas to Romans trying to clear their streets before a freeze forecast for Sunday evening.
  • (3) The frequencies of shovelling in the Southern Cook (23%) were quite similar at the medium level (S + S.S), to those in other Polynesian groups as well as in the Micronesian groups.
  • (4) The occurrence of invaginations in shovel-shaped incisors was 11 per cent.
  • (5) Saunders also attacked a branch of Tesco with a shovel and handed out looted property to other rioters.
  • (6) God grounds to Hairston, who can't field it cleanly and tries to shovel the ball to second.
  • (7) We’re out there one night ’til 3am shoveling dirt on the fire.
  • (8) Upper anterior teeth showed high frequency of shovel form; upper lateral incisors showed less tendency of regression.
  • (9) Subjects were 184 power shovel operators, 127 bulldozer operators, 44 forklift operators as operator groups, and 44 office workers as a control.
  • (10) People were being told to "get a shovel or stay at home", he said.
  • (11) What Victoria gains from shovelling the best part of $58m of taxpayers’ money into the touring F1 circus goes to the heart of the debate over whether the race should continue at Albert Park.
  • (12) deaths were increased for 8 days after a snowstorm, suggesting that the effect was related to activities such as snow shovelling rather than the storm itself.
  • (13) Benaglio manages to hook the ball clear, in a clumsy fashion, as though he's waving a shovel about.
  • (14) Percent peak treadmill oxygen consumption and heart rate with shoveling in the three groups ranged from 60% to 68% and 75% to 78%, respectively.
  • (15) There is even a picturesque worker standing at ease, quietly breast-feeding his shovel.
  • (16) c) Compared with the Japanese, their teeth were characterized by a smaller mesiodistal crown-diameter (especially on the upper first molar), higher frequency of shovel-shape and lower frequency of Carabelli's tuberculum.
  • (17) Older workers may feel compelled to shovel yet more cash into their workplace additional voluntary contribution (AVC) schemes.
  • (18) It's like living in New England and being pro-"having to shovel your car out of the snow".
  • (19) Professor Ian Brown, associate director of Oxford University’s Cyber Security Centre, says given the past attacks on Iran, it’s highly likely to be shovelling vast sums into offensive technologies.
  • (20) The incidences of double shovelling were similar to those of the Guamese, but lower than those of the Hawaiians.

Shoveler


Definition:

  • (n.) One who, or that which, shovels.
  • (n.) A river duck (Spatula clypeata), native of Europe and America. It has a large bill, broadest towards the tip. The male is handsomely variegated with green, blue, brown, black, and white on the body; the head and neck are dark green. Called also broadbill, spoonbill, shovelbill, and maiden duck. The Australian shoveler, or shovel-nosed duck (S. rhynchotis), is a similar species.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In autumn, leaf-heaps composted themselves on sunken patios, and were shovelled up by irritated owners of basement flats.
  • (2) About 4,000 government-issued shovels were handed out in several main piazzas to Romans trying to clear their streets before a freeze forecast for Sunday evening.
  • (3) The frequencies of shovelling in the Southern Cook (23%) were quite similar at the medium level (S + S.S), to those in other Polynesian groups as well as in the Micronesian groups.
  • (4) The occurrence of invaginations in shovel-shaped incisors was 11 per cent.
  • (5) Saunders also attacked a branch of Tesco with a shovel and handed out looted property to other rioters.
  • (6) God grounds to Hairston, who can't field it cleanly and tries to shovel the ball to second.
  • (7) We’re out there one night ’til 3am shoveling dirt on the fire.
  • (8) Upper anterior teeth showed high frequency of shovel form; upper lateral incisors showed less tendency of regression.
  • (9) Subjects were 184 power shovel operators, 127 bulldozer operators, 44 forklift operators as operator groups, and 44 office workers as a control.
  • (10) People were being told to "get a shovel or stay at home", he said.
  • (11) What Victoria gains from shovelling the best part of $58m of taxpayers’ money into the touring F1 circus goes to the heart of the debate over whether the race should continue at Albert Park.
  • (12) deaths were increased for 8 days after a snowstorm, suggesting that the effect was related to activities such as snow shovelling rather than the storm itself.
  • (13) Benaglio manages to hook the ball clear, in a clumsy fashion, as though he's waving a shovel about.
  • (14) Percent peak treadmill oxygen consumption and heart rate with shoveling in the three groups ranged from 60% to 68% and 75% to 78%, respectively.
  • (15) There is even a picturesque worker standing at ease, quietly breast-feeding his shovel.
  • (16) c) Compared with the Japanese, their teeth were characterized by a smaller mesiodistal crown-diameter (especially on the upper first molar), higher frequency of shovel-shape and lower frequency of Carabelli's tuberculum.
  • (17) Older workers may feel compelled to shovel yet more cash into their workplace additional voluntary contribution (AVC) schemes.
  • (18) It's like living in New England and being pro-"having to shovel your car out of the snow".
  • (19) Professor Ian Brown, associate director of Oxford University’s Cyber Security Centre, says given the past attacks on Iran, it’s highly likely to be shovelling vast sums into offensive technologies.
  • (20) The incidences of double shovelling were similar to those of the Guamese, but lower than those of the Hawaiians.

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