Shovel vs. Dig — What's the Difference?

A shovel is a tool for digging, lifting, and moving bulk materials, such as soil, coal, gravel, snow, sand, or ore. Most shovels are hand tools consisting of a broad blade fixed to a medium-length handle.

To break up, turn over, or remove (earth or sand, for example), as with a shovel, spade, or snout, or with claws, paws or hands.

A tool with a handle and a broad scoop or blade for digging and moving material, such as dirt or snow.

To make or form by removing earth or other material

A large mechanical device or vehicle for heavy digging or excavation.

To prepare (soil) by loosening or cultivating.

The amount that a shovel can hold; a shovelful

To obtain or unearth by digging

To move or remove with a shovel.

To obtain or find by an action similar to digging

To make with a shovel

To learn or discover by careful research or investigation

To convey or throw in a rough or hasty way, as if with a shovel

To force down and into something; thrust

To clear or excavate with or as if with a shovel

To poke or prod

To dig or work with a shovel.

(Sports) To strike or redirect (a ball) just before it hits the ground, keeping it in play, as in tennis or volleyball.

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. Not to be confused with a spade, which is designed solely for small-scale digging and incidental tasks such as chopping of small roots.

To understand fully

A mechanical part of an excavator with a similar function.

To like, enjoy, or appreciate

(US) A spade.

To take notice of

To move materials with a shovel.

To loosen, turn over, or remove earth or other material.

To move with a shoveling motion.

To make one's way by or as if by pushing aside or removing material

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.

(Slang) To have understanding

To take up and throw with a shovel; as, to shovel earth into a heap, or into a cart, or out of a pit.

A poke or thrust

To gather up as with a shovel.

A sarcastic, taunting remark; a gibe.

A hand tool for lifting loose material; consists of a curved container or scoop and a handle

An archaeological excavation.

The quantity a shovel can hold

(Sports) An act or an instance of digging a ball.

A fire iron consisting of a small shovel used to scoop coals or ashes in a fireplace

Digs Lodgings.

A machine for excavating

To move hard-packed earth out of the way, especially downward to make a hole with a shovel. Or to drill, or the like, through rocks, roads, or the like. More generally, to make any similar hole by moving material out of the way.should this be split into senses?

Dig with or as if with a shovel;

(transitive) To get by digging; to take from the ground; often with up.

(mining) To take ore from its bed, in distinction from making excavations in search of ore.

To work like a digger; to study ploddingly and laboriously.

(figurative) To investigate, to research, often followed by out or up.

To understand, to like.

To thrust; to poke.

(volleyball) To defend against an attack hit by the opposing team by successfully passing the ball

To understand.

To appreciate, or like.

An archeological or paleontological investigation, or the site where such an investigation is taking place.

A thrust; a poke.

(volleyball) A defensive pass of the ball that has been attacked by the opposing team.

(cricket) An innings.

A cutting, sarcastic remark.

The occupation of digging for gold.

A plodding and laborious student.

A tool for digging.

A rare or interesting vinyl record bought second-hand.

Digoxin.

To turn up, or delve in, (earth) with a spade or a hoe; to open, loosen, or break up (the soil) with a spade, or other sharp instrument; to pierce, open, or loosen, as if with a spade.

To get by digging; as, to dig potatoes, or gold.

To hollow out, as a well; to form, as a ditch, by removing earth; to excavate; as, to dig a ditch or a well.

To thrust; to poke.

To like; enjoy; admire.

To work with a spade or other like implement; to do servile work; to delve.

To take ore from its bed, in distinction from making excavations in search of ore.

To work hard or drudge;

Of a tool: To cut deeply into the work because ill set, held at a wrong angle, or the like, as when a lathe tool is set too low and so sprung into the work.

To understand; as, do you dig me?.

To notice; to look at; as, dig that crazy hat!.

To appreciate and enjoy; as, he digs classical music as well as rock.

A plodding and laborious student.

A tool for digging.

An act of digging.

An amount to be dug.

Same as Gouge.

A critical and sometimes sarcastic or insulting remark, but often good-humored; as, celebrities at a roast must suffer through countless digs.

An archeological excavation site.

The site of an archeological exploration;

An aggressive remark directed at a person like a missile and intended to have a telling effect;

A small gouge (as in the cover of a book);

The act of digging;

The act of touching someone suddenly with your finger or elbow;

Turn up, loosen, or remove earth;

Create by digging;

Work hard;

Remove the inner part or the core of;

Poke or thrust abruptly;

Get the meaning of something;