sandnoun詞源 1/sænd/

• 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.

  • 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, […]
• 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.

  • One sand was that used in cement testing with white well rounded smooth grains, passing through a 20-mesh sieve and retained on a 30-mesh sieve. The other was ordinary brown building sand, passing 40-mesh and retained on 60-mesh.
• 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.

  • The Canadian tar sands are a promising source of oil.
  • From east and south the danger was to be expected. Not from the uninhabited northern desert, not from the desolate sands of the unknown west, would it come.
• 4

  datedPersonal courage.

  • 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.”
• 5

  geographygeologynatural-sciencesA 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

  obsoleteA single grain of sand.

  • One sand another. Not more resembles that sweet rosy lad
• 8

  A moment or interval of time; the term or extent of one's life (referring to the sand in an hourglass).

  • The sands are numbered that make up my life.
  • Cf. sands of time (idiom)

sandadj詞源 1/sænd/

• 1

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

sandverb詞源 2/sænd/

• 1

  To abrade the surface of (something) with sand or sandpaper in order to smooth or clean it.

• 2

  To cover with sand.

  • Sudden stopping, which could be effected easily by sanding the rails and reversing the driving-gear, was dangerous, because the train might telescope and overwhelm the engine.
  • The golden domes of churches and the freshly sanded paths in the town gardens were a glaring yellow.
• 3

  historicalTo blot ink using sand.

  • The officer wrote until he had finished, read over to himself what he had written, sanded it, and handed it to Defarge, with the words "In secret."

這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形：

• sandpiper