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Definition of 'SAND' Random House Webster's College Dictionary 

1. (n.) sand
the more or less fine debris of rocks, consisting of small, loose grains, often of quartz.

2.  sand
Usu., sands. a tract or region composed principally of sand.

3.  sand
sands, moments of time or of one's life.

4.  sand
a light reddish yellow or brownish yellow color.

5.  sand
courage; pluck.

6. (v.t.) sand
to smooth or polish with sandpaper or other abrasive.

7.  sand
to sprinkle with or as if with sand.

8.  sand
to fill up with sand, as a harbor.

9.  sand
to add sand to.

10. (n.) Sand
George (Amandine Aurore Lucile Dupin Dudevant), 1804–76, French novelist.


Definition of 'SAND' Princeton's WordNet 

1. (noun) sand
a loose material consisting of grains of rock or coral

2. (noun) Sand, George Sand, Amandine Aurore Lucie Dupin, Baroness Dudevant
French writer known for works concerning women's rights and independence (1804-1876)

3. (verb) backbone, grit, guts, moxie, sand, gumption
fortitude and determination
"he didn't have the guts to try it"

4. (verb) sandpaper, sand
rub with sandpaper
"sandpaper the wooden surface"


Definition of 'SAND' Kernerman English Learner’s Dictionary 

1. (noun) sand
a substance made of small grains of stone found on a beach
golden sand; a sand castle

2. (verb) sand
to make a surface smooth by rubbing it with sandpaper
Sand all surfaces carefully before painting.


Definition of 'SAND' Webster Dictionary 

1. (noun) SAND
fine particles of stone, esp. of siliceous stone, but not reduced to dust; comminuted stone in the form of loose grains, which are not coherent when wet

2. (noun) SAND
a single particle of such stone

3. (noun) SAND
the sand in the hourglass; hence, a moment or interval of time; the term or extent of one's life

4. (noun) SAND
tracts of land consisting of sand, like the deserts of Arabia and Africa; also, extensive tracts of sand exposed by the ebb of the tide

5. (noun) SAND
courage; pluck; grit

6. (verb) SAND
to sprinkle or cover with sand

7. (verb) SAND
to drive upon the sand

8. (verb) SAND
to bury (oysters) beneath drifting sand or mud

9. (verb) SAND
to mix with sand for purposes of fraud; as, to sand sugar


Translation of 'SAND' Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary 

Sense: a large amount of tiny particles of crushed rocks, shells etc, found on beaches etc.

Afrikaans flag Afrikaans: sand Arabic flag Arabic: رَمْل، حُطام Bulgarian flag Bulgarian: пясък
Brazilian flag Brazilian: areia Czech flag Czech: písek German flag German: der Sand
Danish flag Danish: sand Greek flag Greek: άμμος Spanish flag Spanish: arena
Estonian flag Estonian: liiv Farsi flag Farsi: شن Finnish flag Finnish: hiekka
French flag French: sable Hebrew flag Hebrew: חוֹל Hindi flag Hindi: रेत, सिकता
Croatian flag Croatian: pijesak Hungarian flag Hungarian: homok Indonesian flag Indonesian: pasir
Icelandic flag Icelandic: sandur Italian flag Italian: sabbia Japanese flag Japanese: 
Korean flag Korean: 모래 Lithuanian flag Lithuanian: smėlis Latvian flag Latvian: smiltis
Malay flag Malay: pasir Dutch flag Dutch: zand Norwegian flag Norwegian: sand
Polish flag Polish: piasek Persian flag Persian: شن Pashto flag Pashto: شګه، ريګ، په شګو ډكول، تر
Portuguese flag Portuguese: areia Romanian flag Romanian: nisip Russian flag Russian: песок
Slovak flag Slovak: piesok Slovenian flag Slovenian: prod Serbian flag Serbian: pesak
Swedish flag Swedish: sand Thai flag Thai: ทราย Turkish flag Turkish: kum
Taiwanese flag Taiwanese: 沙子 Ukrainian flag Ukrainian: пісок Urdu flag Urdu: ریت
Vietnamese flag Vietnamese: cát Chinese flag Chinese: 沙子

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