Banjo vs. Shovel — What's the Difference?

The banjo is a stringed instrument with a thin membrane stretched over a frame or cavity to form a resonator. The membrane is typically circular, and usually made of plastic, or occasionally animal skin.

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.

A usually fretted stringed instrument having a narrow neck and a hollow circular body with a covering of plastic or stretched skin on which the bridge rests. The modern American banjo typically has four strings and often a short fifth string plucked with the thumb.

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

A stringed musical instrument (chordophone), usually with a round body, a membrane-like soundboard and a fretted neck, played by plucking or strumming the strings.

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

Any of various similar musical instruments, such as the Tuvan doshpuluur, with a membrane-like soundboard.

The amount that a shovel can hold; a shovelful

(slang) An object shaped like a banjo, especially a frying pan or a shovel.

To move or remove with a shovel.

A cul-de-sac with a round end.

To make with a shovel

(mining) A miner's round-nosed shovel.

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

To play a banjo.

To clear or excavate with or as if with a shovel

To beat, to knock down.

To dig or work with a shovel.

To shell or attack (a target).

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.

A stringed musical instrument having a head and neck like the guitar, and a circular body like a tambourine. It has five strings, and is played with the fingers and hands.

A mechanical part of an excavator with a similar function.

A stringed instrument of the guitar family that has long neck and circular body

(US) A spade.

To move materials with a shovel.

To move with a shoveling motion.

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.

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

To gather up as with a shovel.

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

The quantity a shovel can hold

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

A machine for excavating

Dig with or as if with a shovel;