Definitions for Sand

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Sand sand

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IPA: /sænd/

Sand is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 5 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 6 points.

You can make 32 anagrams from letters in Sand (adns).

Definitions for Sand

noun

1. the more or less fine debris of rocks, consisting of small, loose grains, often of quartz.
2. Usually, sands. a tract or region composed principally of sand.
3. the sand or a grain of sand in an hourglass.
4. sands, moments of time or of one's life:
5. a light reddish- or brownish-yellow color.
6. Informal. courage; pluck.
7. sleeper (def 10).
8. George [jawrj;; French zhawrzh] /dʒɔrdʒ;; French ʒɔrʒ/ (Show IPA), (Lucile Aurore Dupin Dudevant) 1804–76, French novelist.

Idioms

1. draw a line in the sand, to set a limit; allow to go up to a point but no further.

verb (used with object)

1. to smooth or polish with sand, sandpaper, or some other abrasive:
2. to sprinkle with or as if with sand:
3. to fill up with sand, as a harbor.
4. to add sand to:

Origin of Sand

before 900; Middle English (noun), Old English; cognate with German Sand, Old Norse sandr

Examples for Sand

But they saw that the sea was for the swimmer, and the sand for the feet of the runner.

The sides of this hill he covered with a layer of bricks that the sand might not be blown away.

Yates caught up a handful of sand, and flung it lightly against the pane.

And there, the sand castle builder and tag player who loved her aunt more than science would be buried.

We could not find any of his camps, however; doubtless the sand has long since covered them.

The book is the line in the sand, proof that she is not, as she is so often conflated, the Hannah Horvath she has created.

To see how a global ocean could affect libration, take two bottles, fill one with sand and the other with water, then spin them.

When the game starts, there is only sand, a white ball, a flag indicating hole 1, and a “0” at the top of the screen.

There is only sand, a white ball, and a flag indicating the hole.

But it was not to be drifted up with the sand of forgetfulness!