sand
Plural: sands
Noun
- a loose material consisting of grains of rock or coral
- French writer known for works concerning women's rights and independence (1804-1876)
- fortitude and determination
- Rock that is ground more finely than gravel, but is not as fine as silt (more formally, see grain sizes chart), forming beaches and deserts and also used in construction.
- Rock that is ground more finely than gravel, but is not as fine as silt (more formally, see grain sizes chart), forming beaches and deserts and also used in construction.
- A specific grade, type, or composition of sand.
- Rock that is ground more finely than gravel, but is not as fine as silt (more formally, see grain sizes chart), forming beaches and deserts and also used in construction.
- A beach or other mass of sand.
- Personal courage.
- A particle from 62.5 microns to 2 mm in diameter, following the Wentworth scale.
- A light beige colour, like that of typical sand.
- A single grain of sand.
- A moment or interval of time; the term or extent of one's life (referring to the sand in an hourglass).
- Dried mucus in the eye's inner corner, perhaps left from sleep (sleepy sand).
- Dried mucus in the eye's inner corner, perhaps left from sleep (sleepy sand).
- "sand in [someone's] eyes" (idiom)
- Dried mucus in the eye's inner corner, perhaps left from sleep (sleepy sand).
- An excuse for tears.
- Ellipsis of sandpiper.
Verb
Verb Forms: sanded, sanding, sands
- To cover with sand, or to smooth with an abrasive material.
- rub with sandpaper
- "sandpaper the wooden surface"
- To abrade the surface of (something) with sand or sandpaper in order to smooth or clean it.
- To cover with sand.
- To blot ink using sand.
Adj
- Of a light beige colour, like that of typical sand.
Examples
- He needed to SAND down his strategy to remove rough edges and play more efficiently.
- The Canadian tar sands are a promising source of oil.
Origin / Etymology
From Middle English sond, sand, from Old English sand, from Proto-West Germanic *samd, from Proto-Germanic *samdaz, from Proto-Indo-European *sámh₂dʰos, from *sem- (“to pour”).
See also West Frisian sân, Dutch zand, German Sand, Danish, Swedish and Norwegian sand, Latin sabulum, Ancient Greek ἄμαθος (ámathos), English dialectal samel (“sand bottom”), Old Irish do·essim (“to pour out”), Latin sentina (“bilge water”), Lithuanian sémti (“to scoop”), Ancient Greek ἀμάω (amáō, “to gather”), ἄμη (ámē, “water bucket”).
Synonyms
Amandine Aurore Lucie Dupin, backbone, Baroness Dudevant, George Sand, grit, gumption, guts, moxie, sandpaper
Scrabble Score: 5
sand: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordsand: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
sand: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary