sand

See also: Sand and sänd

EnglishEdit

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Footprints in sand

PronunciationEdit

IPA^(key): /sænd/
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Rhymes: -ænd

Etymology 1Edit

From Middle English sand, from Old English sand, from Proto-Germanic *samdaz (compare West Frisian sân, Dutch zand, German Sand, Danish, Swedish and Norwegian sand), from Proto-Indo-European *sámh₂dʰos (compare Latin sabulum, Ancient Greek ἄμαθος (ámathos)), from *sem- (“to pour”) (compare 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”)).

NounEdit

sand (usually uncountable, plural sands)

(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.
- 1913, Joseph C. Lincoln, chapter 1, in Mr. Pratt's Patients:
  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.
- 2018, The Guardian, "Riddle of the sands: the truth behind stolen beaches and dredged islands"
  We are addicted to sand but don't know it because we don't buy it as individuals, ―
- 2018, The Guardian, "Riddle of the sands: the truth behind stolen beaches and dredged islands"
  China's hunger for sand is insatiable, its biggest dredging site at Lake Poyang produces 989,000 tonnes per day.
(countable, often in the plural) A beach or other expanse of sand.
The Canadian tar sands are a promising source of oil.
- 1892, James Yoxall, chapter 7, in The Lonely Pyramid:
  It was the Lost Oasis, the Oasis of the vision in the sand. […] Deep-hidden in the hollow, beneath the cliffs, it lay; and round it the happy verdure spread for many a rood. […] Yes, the quest was ended, the Lost Oasis was the Found!
(uncountable, dated, circa 1920) Personal courage.
- 1884, Twain, Mark, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn:
  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.
- 1968, Charles Portis, True Grit:
  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.”
- 1979, L'Amour, Louis, Bendigo Shafter, →ISBN, OL 24369989M:
  There was youngsters all around him, and he stood there lookin’ at me and never turned a hair. He had sand, that Morrell.
(uncountable, geology) A particle from 62.5 microns to 2 mm in diameter, following the Wentworth scale.
A light beige colour, like that of typical sand.
sand:
(countable, obsolete) A single grain of sand.
(Can we find and add a quotation of Shakespeare to this entry?)
(countable, figuratively) A moment or interval of time; the term or extent of one's life (referring to the sand in an hourglass).
- c. 1591–1592, William Shakespeare, “The Third Part of Henry the Sixt, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: Printed by Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act 1, scene iv]:
  The sands are numbered that make up my life.

Derived termsEdit

TranslationsEdit

See sand/translations § Noun.

AdjectiveEdit

sand

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

TranslationsEdit

See sand/translations § Adjective.

Etymology 2Edit

From Middle English sanden, from the noun (see above).

VerbEdit

sand (third-person singular simple present sands, present participle sanding, simple past and past participle sanded)

(transitive) To abrade the surface of (something) with sand or sandpaper in order to smooth or clean it.
(transitive) To cover with sand.
- 1938, Xavier Herbert, Capricornia, New York: D. Appleton-Century, 1943, Chapter IX, page 141, [1]
  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.
- 1958, Boris Pasternak, Doctor Zhivago, translated by Max Hayward and Manya Harari, New York: Pantheon, Chapter 4, page 96,
  The golden domes of churches and the freshly sanded paths in the town gardens were a glaring yellow.
(transitive, historical) To blot ink using sand.
- 1859, Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities:
  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."

TranslationsEdit

See sand/translations § Verb.

Etymology 3Edit

Abbreviation of sand(piper).

NounEdit

sand (plural sands)

(colloquial) A sandpiper.

AnagramsEdit

ANDs, DNAs, Dans, NADS, NDAs, and's, ands, dans, nads

AfrikaansEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Dutch zand, from Middle Dutch sant, from Old Dutch *sant, from Proto-Germanic *samdaz, from Proto-Indo-European *sámh₂dʰos.

PronunciationEdit

IPA^(key): /sant/

NounEdit

sand (plural sande, diminutive sandjie)

sand

Derived termsEdit

sandkorrel

DanishEdit

PronunciationEdit

IPA^(key): /san/, [sanˀ]
Rhymes: -anˀ
Rhymes: -and

Etymology 1Edit

From Old Norse sannr, saðr, from Proto-Germanic *sanþaz, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁sónts (“being, existing”), the present participle of *h₁es- (“to be”).

AdjectiveEdit

sand

true

InflectionEdit

Inflection of sand
	Positive	Comparative	Superlative
Common singular	sand	—	—²
Neuter singular	sandt	—	—²
Plural	sande	—	—²
Definite attributive¹	sande	—	—
1) When an adjective is applied predicatively to something definite, the corresponding "indefinite" form is used. 2) The "indefinite" superlatives may not be used attributively.