sand

Significat (anglès)

Noun

1. 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.
2. 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.
3. 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.
4. Personal courage.
5. A particle from 62.5 microns to 2 mm in diameter, following the Wentworth scale.
6. A light beige colour, like that of typical sand.
7. (obsolete) A single grain of sand.
8. A moment or interval of time; the term or extent of one's life (referring to the sand in an hourglass).
9. Dried mucus in the eye's inner corner, perhaps left from sleep (sleepy sand).
10. Dried mucus in the eye's inner corner, perhaps left from sleep (sleepy sand).
11. Dried mucus in the eye's inner corner, perhaps left from sleep (sleepy sand).

Adj

Of a light beige colour, like that of typical sand.

Verb

1. To abrade the surface of (something) with sand or sandpaper in order to smooth or clean it.
2. To cover with sand.
3. To blot ink using sand.

Sinònims

gravel

grit

soil

dust

ground

sandy soil

sandpaper

earth

dirt

sandbank

sandy

Sandy Creek

beach

🏖️

creek bed

mud

powder

gumption

guts

moxie

backbone

sandy ground

pebbles

arena

grind

hone

move

oomph

peppiness

place

plane

plaster

pluck

polish

🇵🇱

refine

ring

💍

riverbed

rubbish

s

s

sabulous

seaside

sediment

set

shoal

silt

smooth

strand

strop

ugly

verve

vigour

wasteland

work on

abrase

polish up

wild dog

work at

make flat

stone and water to make floor

airidity

atom of dust

very fine sand

antmound

abradant

rub off with emery

abrade

arenite

ashes

bond

bracelet

brush up

cement

clay

clean

coarse

coast

country

creek

desert

🏜️

dryness

emery

face

fill up

fine

flatten

ginger

grain of sand

Pronunciat com a (IPA)

/sænd/

Etimologia (anglès)

From Middle English 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”).

Sents

The thing itself was almost entirely buried in sand .

One can imagine these two , covered with sand , running up the little street in the bright sunlight .

A castle built from sand fails to endure .

I was scared , but wasted no time in going out and crossing the bridge to the sand pits .

And the sand and gravel had been flung violently in every direction .