Sand

/ˈsænd/ · noun

Meaning

(uncountable) 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..

Definitions by Sense

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

Example Sentences

For a spell we done pretty well. Then there came a reg'lar terror of a sou'wester same as you don't get one summer in a thousand, and blowed the shanty flat and ripped about half of the weir poles out of the sand.

“We are addicted to sand but don’t know it because we don’t buy it as individuals,” says Aurora Torres, […]

China’s hunger for sand is insatiable, its biggest dredging site at Lake Poyang produces 989,000 tonnes per day.

You may say what you want to, but in my opinion she had more sand in her than any girl I ever see; in my opinion she was just full of sand.

He said, “I admire your sand but I believe you will find I am not liable for such claims. Let me say too that your valuation of the horse is high by about two hundred dollars.”

There was youngsters all around him, and he stood there lookin’ at me and never turned a hair. He had sand, that Morrell.

One sand another. Not more resembles that sweet rosy lad

Cf. sands of time (idiom)

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• sands
• sanding
• sanded

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