Sand

Noun

 * 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. Sand may be blown around by the wind; gravel is too heavy, and silt (on beaches) does not usually have time to dry out between tides.
 * 2) A light beige colour, like that of typical sand.
 * 3)  Personal courage (used before or around 1920s)

Adjective

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

Verb

 * 1)  To abrade the surface of (something) with sand or sandpaper in order to smooth or clean it.
 * Then what was the point of sanding my face off? &mdash; Space Ghost
 * 1)  To cover with sand.

Adjectives for Sand
shifting; pathless; torrid; angry; damp; quick; perpetual; swampy; conniving; silver; sounding; slippery; sun-bleached; restless; drifting; slushy; bituminous; dissolving; wrinkled; ruby; dreary; worthless; clinging; treeless; sweltering; coralline; wan; volatile; shallower; parched; sinking; sighing; endless; penurious; tropic; stinging; swishing; ribbed; spangling; tinted; unending; milky; drooping; sea-deserted.

Verbs for Sand
bury in—; crush into—; elevate—; finger—; heap—; intermix with—; lose in—; overlay with—; plod through—; plough through—; polish with—; precipitate—; shovel—; sift—; trace in—; tread—; wade through—; wrinkle—; —hems; —shifts; —smooths.

Thesaurus
granule, granulet, gravel, grind, grit, guts, intestinal, polish, pumice, rub up, sand dune, sand pile, sandbar, sandblast, sandpaper, shine, shingle, smooth, true grit, backbone, breccia, buff, burnish, debris, detritus, dress, emery, file, furbish, grain.

Etymology
sand, from (compare  zand:,  Sand:), from  (compare  sabulum:,  ἄμαθος:), from *sem- 'to pour' (compare  dial. samel: 'sand bottom',  to-ess-sem: 'to pour out',  sentina: 'bilge water',  sémti: 'to scoop',  ἀμάω: 'to gather', ἄμη: 'water bucket').

Derived terms

 * built on sand
 * bury one's head in the sand
 * Great Sandy Desert
 * kick sand in somebody's face
 * oil sand
 * quicksand
 * sandbag
 * sandbank
 * sandbar
 * sand bath
 * sandblast
 * sand-blind
 * sandbox
 * sandbox tree
 * sandboy
 * sandbur


 * sand-cast
 * sand casting
 * sandcastle
 * sand crack
 * sand dab
 * sand dollar
 * sand dune
 * sand eel
 * sander
 * sanderling
 * sand flea
 * sandfly
 * sand fly
 * sandfly fever
 * sandglass
 * sandgroper
 * sandgrouse
 * sand hill


 * sandhill crane
 * sandhog
 * sand hopper
 * sandiness
 * sand iron
 * sand lance
 * sand leek
 * sand lily
 * sand lizard
 * sandman
 * sand martin
 * sand painting
 * sandpaper
 * sand pear
 * sandpiper
 * sandpit
 * sand shark


 * sand shoe
 * sandshoe
 * sandsoap
 * sandspit
 * sandstorm
 * sand table
 * sand trap
 * sand verbena
 * sand viper
 * sand wedge
 * sandworm
 * sandwort
 * sandy
 * sand yacht
 * sandyacht
 * tar sand

Anagrams

 * ANDs
 * nads

Noun

 * Albanian:
 * Arabic: رمل
 * Aramaic:
 * Syriac: ܚܠܐ (khālā, kholo)
 * Hebrew: חלא (khālā, kholo)
 * Armenian:
 * Azeri:
 * Bashkir:
 * Basque: harea, hondar
 * Belarusian: пясок
 * Bulgarian:
 * Burmese: နှင်း
 * Buryat:
 * Catalan: sorra
 * Chamicuro:
 * Chechen:
 * Cherokee:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 沙, 沙子
 * Choctaw:
 * Chuvash:
 * Crimean Tatar:
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dolgan:
 * Dutch: ,
 * Esperanto:
 * Estonian:
 * Faroese:
 * Finnish:, santa
 * French:
 * Gagauz:
 * Galician:
 * Georgian: ,
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Hawaiian:
 * Hebrew:
 * Hindi: रेत, बालू
 * Hopi:
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic:
 * Indonesian:
 * Ingush:
 * Irish:
 * Italian: ,
 * Japanese:
 * Kalmyk:
 * Karachay-Balkar: ,
 * Karakalpak:
 * Kazakh: құм
 * Khakas:
 * Korean:
 * Kumyk:
 * Kuna: ukub
 * Kurdish: خۆڵ
 * Kyrgyz:
 * Latin:, , ramentum
 * Latvian: smiltis


 * Lithuanian: smėlis
 * Macedonian:
 * Malay:
 * Maltese: borra
 * Manx: geinnagh
 * Maori:
 * Mongolian: элс
 * Nahuatl: xali
 * Navajo:
 * Ngarrindjeri:
 * Nogai:
 * Norwegian:
 * Occitan: ,
 * Old Church Slavonic:
 * Old English:
 * Persian:, , ماسه
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romani:
 * Romanian: ,
 * Romansch: sablun, sablùn, sablung
 * Russian:
 * Sardinian:
 * Scottish Gaelic:
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: (Ekavian) песак, (Ijekavian) пијесак
 * Roman: (Ekavian) pesak, (Ijekavian) pijesak
 * Shor: ,
 * Sicilian:
 * Slovak:
 * Slovene:
 * Southern Altai:
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili: mchanga (class 3/4)
 * Swedish:
 * Tagalog: buhangin
 * Tajik:
 * Tatar: qom
 * Telugu: ఇసుక (isuka)
 * Thai: ทราย
 * Turkish:
 * Turkmen:, çäge
 * Tuvan: ,
 * Ukrainian: пісок
 * Urdu: ریت
 * Uyghur:
 * Uzbek:
 * Vietnamese:
 * Welsh: tywod
 * West Frisian:
 * Yakut:
 * Yiddish: זאַמד


 * Catalan: platja
 * Chamicuro:
 * Cherokee:
 * Czech:
 * Danish: ,
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish: ,
 * French:
 * Georgian: მეჩეჩი


 * German: Sand (sandy islet), Sandstrand
 * Greek:
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: 砂浜 (すなはま, sunahama), ビーチ (bīchi)
 * Norwegian: ,
 * Portuguese:
 * Scottish Gaelic:
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish: ,


 * Czech: kuráž


 * French:


 * Cherokee:
 * Danish: sandfarvet
 * Finnish: hiekka, hiekanvärinen
 * French: ton sable, teinte sable ,
 * German: Sand, Sandfarbe


 * Japanese: 砂色 (すないろ, sunairo)
 * Norwegian: sandfarget
 * Portuguese:
 * Swedish: sandfärgad

Adjective

 * Bulgarian:
 * Dutch: zandkleurig, zandkleurige
 * Finnish: hiekanvärinen


 * French: sable inv. m and f
 * Japanese: 砂色の (すないろの, sunairo no)
 * Portuguese:

Verb

 * Dutch:
 * Finnish: (hiekkapaperilla)
 * French: poncer (sandpaper), sabler (sand jet)
 * German: ,
 * Italian:


 * Japanese: 磨く (みがく, migaku)
 * Portuguese:
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish: slipa, sandpappra


 * Dutch: met zand bedekken
 * Esperanto: kovri per sablo
 * Finnish:
 * French: sabler
 * German: versanden (to be covered); mit Sand bedecken


 * Italian:
 * Japanese: 砂をまく (すなをまく, suna wo maku), 砂をかける (すなをかける, suna wo kakeru)
 * Portuguese: arear
 * Swedish: sanda (in particular slippery surfaces; surfaces covered with snow or ice)

Adjective

 * 1) true

Noun

 * 1) sand (finely ground rock)

Noun

 * 1) sand (particles of rock)

Etymology
From sant: <  <.

Derived terms

 * auf Sand bauen
 * Sandburg
 * Sandsack
 * Sandstrand
 * Sandkuchen
 * sandig
 * versanden
 * Treibsand
 * Sandstein
 * Sandkasten
 * Sandkatze

Noun

 * 1) sand

Noun

 * 1) action of sending, embassy, mission, deputation; message
 * 2) sending, service, course of food, dish of food, repast, mess, victuals

Noun

 * 1) sand, gravel
 * 2) sand by the sea, sands, sea-shore, sandy shore, beach

Etymology 1
See the verb sendan:

Etymology 2
From.

Noun
sand


 * 1) sand (finely ground rock)

Related terms

 * sanda