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I like dialogue in novels. I wanted to avoid laying history on with a trowel - appearing to be lecturing, as opposed to the characters lecturing their children or students. Dialogue can humanise the story and make it go down somewhat more smoothly.
Elliot Perlman

Meaning of "trowel" in the English dictionary

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ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD TROWEL

From Old French truele, from Latin trulla a scoop, from trua a stirring spoon.
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Etymology is the study of the origin of words and their changes in structure and significance.
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PRONUNCIATION OF TROWEL

trowel  [ˈtraʊəl] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF TROWEL

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Trowel is a verb and can also act as a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

The verb is the part of the sentence that is conjugated and expresses action and state of being.

See the conjugation of the verb trowel in English.

WHAT DOES TROWEL MEAN IN ENGLISH?

trowel

Trowel

A trowel is one of several similar hand tools used for digging, smoothing, or otherwise moving around small amounts of viscous or particulate material.

Definition of trowel in the English dictionary

The first definition of trowel in the dictionary is any of various small hand tools having a flat metal blade attached to a handle, used for scooping or spreading plaster or similar materials. Other definition of trowel is a similar tool with a curved blade used by gardeners for lifting plants, etc. Trowel is also to use a trowel on.

CONJUGATION OF THE VERB TO TROWEL

PRESENT

Present
I trowel
you trowel
he/she/it trowels
we trowel
you trowel
they trowel
Present continuous
I am troweling
you are troweling
he/she/it is troweling
we are troweling
you are troweling
they are troweling
Present perfect
I have troweled
you have troweled
he/she/it has troweled
we have troweled
you have troweled
they have troweled
Present perfect continuous
I have been troweling
you have been troweling
he/she/it has been troweling
we have been troweling
you have been troweling
they have been troweling
Present tense is used to refer to circumstances that exist at the present time or over a period that includes the present time. The present perfect refers to past events, although it can be considered to denote primarily the resulting present situation rather than the events themselves.

PAST

Past
I troweled
you troweled
he/she/it troweled
we troweled
you troweled
they troweled
Past continuous
I was troweling
you were troweling
he/she/it was troweling
we were troweling
you were troweling
they were troweling
Past perfect
I had troweled
you had troweled
he/she/it had troweled
we had troweled
you had troweled
they had troweled
Past perfect continuous
I had been troweling
you had been troweling
he/she/it had been troweling
we had been troweling
you had been troweling
they had been troweling
Past tense forms express circumstances existing at some time in the past,

FUTURE

Future
I will trowel
you will trowel
he/she/it will trowel
we will trowel
you will trowel
they will trowel
Future continuous
I will be troweling
you will be troweling
he/she/it will be troweling
we will be troweling
you will be troweling
they will be troweling
Future perfect
I will have troweled
you will have troweled
he/she/it will have troweled
we will have troweled
you will have troweled
they will have troweled
Future perfect continuous
I will have been troweling
you will have been troweling
he/she/it will have been troweling
we will have been troweling
you will have been troweling
they will have been troweling
The future is used to express circumstances that will occur at a later time.

CONDITIONAL

Conditional
I would trowel
you would trowel
he/she/it would trowel
we would trowel
you would trowel
they would trowel
Conditional continuous
I would be troweling
you would be troweling
he/she/it would be troweling
we would be troweling
you would be troweling
they would be troweling
Conditional perfect
I would have trowel
you would have trowel
he/she/it would have trowel
we would have trowel
you would have trowel
they would have trowel
Conditional perfect continuous
I would have been troweling
you would have been troweling
he/she/it would have been troweling
we would have been troweling
you would have been troweling
they would have been troweling
Conditional or "future-in-the-past" tense refers to hypothetical or possible actions.

IMPERATIVE

Imperative
you trowel
we let´s trowel
you trowel
The imperative is used to form commands or requests.
NONFINITE VERB FORMS
Infinitive
to trowel
Past participle
troweled
Present Participle
troweling
Infinitive shows the action beyond temporal perspective. The present participle or gerund shows the action during the session. The past participle shows the action after completion.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH TROWEL


avowal
əˈvaʊəl
bowel
ˈbaʊəl
cowal
ˈkaʊəl
disavowal
ˌdɪsəˈvaʊəl
disbowel
dɪsˈbaʊəl
disembowel
ˌdɪsɪmˈbaʊəl
disemvowel
ˌdɪsɪmˈvaʊəl
dishtowel
ˈdɪʃˌtaʊəl
dowel
ˈdaʊəl
Dowell
ˈdaʊəl
embowel
ɪmˈbaʊəl
Powell
ˈpaʊəl
rowel
ˈraʊəl
semivowel
ˈsɛmɪˌvaʊəl
towel
ˈtaʊəl
vowel
ˈvaʊəl

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE TROWEL

trout stream
trouter
troutful
troutless
troutlet
troutling
troutstone
trouty
trouvaille
trouveur
trove
trover
trow
Trowbridge
troweler
trowelled
troweller
trowelling
Troy
troy weight

WORDS THAT END LIKE TROWEL

back vowel
bath towel
beach towel
dish towel
front vowel
hand towel
jack towel
low vowel
Nowel
open vowel
oral vowel
paper towel
pure vowel
roller towel
sanitary towel
tea towel
throw in the towel
Turkish towel

Synonyms and antonyms of trowel in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «trowel» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF TROWEL

Find out the translation of trowel to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of trowel from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «trowel» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

泥铲
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

paleta
570 millions of speakers

English

trowel
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

कन्नी
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

مَسْطَرِين
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

садовый совок
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

colher de pedreiro
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

কর্নিক
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

truelle
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Trowel
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Kelle
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

移植ごて
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

흙손
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Trowel
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

cái xẻng bứng cây
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

கொலு
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

कोंदेचे कापड
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

mala
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

cazzuola
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

kielnia
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

садовий совок
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

sapă mică de grădină
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

μυστρί
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

troffel
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

murslev
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

murskje
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of trowel

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «TROWEL»

The term «trowel» is quite widely used and occupies the 49.705 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «TROWEL» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about trowel

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2 QUOTES WITH «TROWEL»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word trowel.
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Elliot Perlman
I like dialogue in novels. I wanted to avoid laying history on with a trowel - appearing to be lecturing, as opposed to the characters lecturing their children or students. Dialogue can humanise the story and make it go down somewhat more smoothly.
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P. G. Wodehouse
Few of them were to be trusted within reach of a trowel and a pile of bricks.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «TROWEL»

Discover the use of trowel in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to trowel and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Trowel and Error
Gathers more than seven hundred environmentally-friendly tips for gardeners, including how to use citrus fruit rinds as seedling pots, cure plant viruses with milk, and recycle a wheelbarrow into a movable flower bed.
Sharon Lovejoy, 2003
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Tile Your World: John Bridge's New Tile Setting Book
To test the mix, spread some on the floor and comb it with a notched trowel. The ridges created by the trowel should remain erect with only the slightest amount of sag. If the ridges collapse, the mix is too thin and additional dry material should ...
John P. Bridge, 2003
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Trowel and Error
Along the way, the cast of characters includes everyone from Auntie Ethel to Nelson Mandela and the Queen. With great charm, humour and passion, this is probably the best story Alan Titchmarsh has ever told.
Alan Titchmarsh, 2009
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Collaborating at the Trowel's Edge: Teaching and Learning in ...
"Eighteen contributors - many with tribal ties - cover the current state of collaborative indigenous archaeology in North America to show where the discipline is headed.
Stephen W. Silliman, 2008
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Popular Mechanics Complete Home How-to
Place the lip of the hawk just under a horizontal joint and scrape the mortar into place with a jointer or pointing trowel. • Essential tools Brick trowel Pointing trowel Plasterer's trowel Mortarboard Hawk Spirit level Try square Plumb line ...
Albert Jackson, David Day, 2009
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Throw in the Trowel
When her new husband Marco finds a skeleton buried in the basement of his bar, flower shop owner Abby Knight helps Marco investigate a cold case involving a carpenter who went missing in the 1970s.
Kate Collins, 2014
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Text, Theology, and Trowel: New Investigations in the ...
BIBlIography. archi, alfonso, and Maria giovanna. “a Victory over Mari and the Fall of ebla.” JCS 55 (2003) 1–44. Bähre, erik. review of The Hammer and the Flute. Women, Power, and Spirit Possession by Mary Keller. Journal ofReligion in  ...
Lidia D. Matassa, Jason M. Silverman, 2011
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Making & Installing Handmade Tiles
The margin trowel is the workhorse of all the many types of tile-setting trowels. It has a long rectangular blade set in a handle, similar to a cooking spatula. It's used to hand mix small batches of thin-set or grout. It's also used for scraping down ...
Angelica Pozo, 2008
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Dictionary of Architecture and Building Construction
... see M-roof. !46 trough urinal aurinalconsistingofawall-hungchannel fixed at a suitable height to collect discharge. trough vault a barrel vault whose ends are closed with vaults. !25 trowel a hand tool for the application, jointing, smoothing and ...
Nikolas Davies, Erkki Jokiniemi, 2008
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Masonry Skills
7-1 Holding the trowel: (A) Correct way to hold the trowel (note that the thumb remains on the handle), and (B) incorrect way to hold the trowel. (C) (D) Fig. 7-12 The proper way to form a. cut mortar free from the mortar pile. This unit will ...
R. T. Kreh, 2002

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «TROWEL»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term trowel is used in the context of the following news items.
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Hunt for plant pilferer: Village in uproar as trowel-wielding thief …
On five consecutive nights the trowel-wielding culprit struck in the small hours, carefully digging out recently planted blooms. And they have selected plants ... «Express.co.uk, Jul 15»
2
A home for the hoe and trowel
Where's the trowel I was using before lunch? And the weed bucket? For that matter, where's that phone? When you're moving around the yard it's easy to forget ... «The Ellsworth American, Jul 15»
3
Plymouth builder throws in trowel after 68 years
At 16 he received a silver trowel as most promising apprentice in his trade from Housing Minister Aneurin Bevan during a visit to Plymouth to officially open the ... «Plymouth Herald, Jul 15»
4
Trowel & Glove: Marin garden calendar for the week of July 4, 2015
Garden exchange: The Marin Open Garden Project encourages residents to bring their excess backyard-grown fruit and vegetables to the following locations ... «Marin Independent Journal, Jun 15»
5
Paving trowel turns up; Saxby throws down on cyber
More evidence of what a big deal thate event was surfaced unexpectedly last week when the engraved trowel used to place that first brick was loaned to the ... «Marietta Daily Journal, May 15»
6
Gang-gang: Trowel Play On Springbank
One day today's students of the Australian National University's School of Archaeology and Anthropology will surely get to dig at some sites (in Egypt, perhaps, ... «The Canberra Times, Apr 15»
7
Larry D. Bell receives Golden Trowel award
Since its inception, the Golden Trowel Award is a means for Masonic lodges to recognize and honor distinguished members with an official award from the ... «Gainesville Daily Register, Feb 15»
8
M0n0wall comes tumbling down as dev throws in the trowel
The open-source m0n0wall firewall project has been discontinued. The project's author, Manuel Kaspar, has posted that his reason for pulling the plug is simple: ... «The Register, Feb 15»
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Trowel & Glove: Marin garden calendar for the week of Feb. 14, 2015
Bonsai 101: Join Daryl Quijano for a bonsai make-and-take workshop at 10:30 a.m. Feb. 15 at Sloat Garden Center at 401 Miller Ave. in Mill Valley location. $65 ... «Marin Independent Journal, Feb 15»
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Wacker Neuson Crowns 2015 Trowel Challenge Competition …
Wacker Neuson's Trowel Challenge winners: (l to r), 3rd place, Kent Goossen, HD Concrete, Rosenort, Manitoba, Canada; 1st place, Greg Geiger, On Demand ... «ForConstructionPros.com, Feb 15»

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