SAND


Meaning of SAND in English

I.

noun

ADJECTIVE

▪ coarse , fine

a beach of fine golden ~

▪ hard , soft

▪ damp , moist , wet

▪ dry

▪ burning , hot , warm

▪ cool

▪ black , golden , silver , white , yellow

▪ beach , desert

the burning desert ~s

▪ drifting , loose , shifting

… OF SAND

▪ grain

▪ layer

▪ handful

▪ patch , stretch , strip

▪ cloud

VERB + SAND

▪ brush off , dust off

▪ kick

▪ sink into

SAND + VERB

▪ blow , fly

The ~ was flying everywhere.

▪ cover sth

▪ cling to sth , stick to sth

SAND + NOUN

▪ beach , dune

▪ bank (usually sandbank ) , bar (usually sandbar )

▪ box (usually sandbox ) ( AmE ), pit (usually sandpit ) ( BrE )

▪ castle (usually sandcastle )

▪ storm (usually sandstorm )

PREPOSITION

▪ in the ~

The children played happily in the ~.

▪ on the ~

We found her asleep on the ~.

PHRASES

▪ covered in ~ , covered with ~

All my clothes were covered with ~.

II.

verb

Sand is used with these nouns as the object: ↑ edge

Oxford Collocations English Dictionary.      Оксфордский английский словарь словосочетаний .