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sand

Pronunciation: /sænd/

The English word “sand” has 15 meanings listed here.

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. A specific grade, type, or composition of sand.
  3. A beach or other mass of sand.
  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. 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. "sand in [someone's] eyes" (idiom)
  11. An excuse for tears.

adjective

  1. 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.

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English sond, sand, from Old English sand, from Proto-West Germanic *samd, from Proto-Germanic *samdaz. See also North Frisian sun, Sön, sönj (“sand”), Saterland Frisian Sound (“sand”), West Frisian sân (“sand”), Dutch zand (“sand”), German and Luxembourgish Sand (“sand”), Yiddish זאַמד (zamd, “sand”), Danish, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk, and Swedish sand (“sand”),…

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