English Dictionary

sand

/sænd/

noun

(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.

I love walking on the warm sand at the beach.

意味（1）

(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.

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.

意味（2）

(countable, often in the plural) A beach or other expanse of sand.

The Canadian tar sands are a promising source of oil.

意味（3）

(uncountable, dated) Personal 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.

意味（4）

(uncountable, geology) A particle from 62.5 microns to 2 mm in diameter, following the Wentworth scale.

意味（5）

A light beige colour, like that of typical sand.

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意味（6）

(countable, obsolete) A single grain of sand.

One sand another.

One sand another. Not more resembles that sweet rosy lad

意味（7）

(countable, figuratively) 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.