(~s, ~ing, ~ed)
Frequency: The word is one of the 3000 most common words in English.
1.
Sand is a substance that looks like powder, and consists of extremely small pieces of stone. Some deserts and many beaches are made up of ~.
They all walked barefoot across the damp ~ to the water’s edge.
...grains of ~.
N-UNCOUNT
2.
Sands are a large area of ~, for example a beach.
...miles of golden ~s.
N-PLURAL
3.
If you ~ a wood or metal surface, you rub ~paper over it in order to make it smooth or clean.
Sand the surface softly and carefully.
VERB: V n
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Sand down means the same as ~ .
I was going to ~ down the chairs and repaint them...
Simply ~ them down with a fine grade of ~paper.
PHRASAL VERB: V P n (not pron), V n P