SAND


Meaning of SAND in English

(~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

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

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