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English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sænd/
• Rhymes: -ænd

Etymology 1

From Middle English sand, from Old English sand, from Proto-Germanic *samdaz (compare West Frisian sân, Dutch zand, German Sand, Danish, Swedish and Norwegian sand), from Proto-Indo-European *sámh?d?os (compare Latin sabulum, Ancient Greek ?????? (ámathos)), from *sem- (“to pour”) (compare English dialectal samel (“sand bottom”), Old Irish do·essim (“to pour out”), Latin sentina (“bilge water”), Lithuanian sémti (“to scoop”), Ancient Greek ???? (amá?, “to gather”), ??? (ám?, “water bucket”)).

Noun

sand (usually uncountable, plural sands)

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.
   • 2018, The Guardian, "Riddle of the sands: the truth behind stolen beaches and dredged islands"

     We are addicted to sand but don't know it because we don't buy it as individuals, ?

   • 2018, The Guardian, "Riddle of the sands: the truth behind stolen beaches and dredged islands"

     China's hunger for sand is insatiable, its biggest dredging site at Lake Poyang produces 989,000 tonnes per day.

2. (countable, often in the plural) A beach or other expanse of sand.
3. (uncountable, dated, circa 1920) Personal courage.
4. (uncountable, geology) A particle from 62.5 microns to 2 mm in diameter, following the Wentworth scale.
5. A light beige colour, like that of typical sand.

6. (countable, obsolete) A single grain of sand.

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7. (countable, figuratively) A moment or interval of time; the term or extent of one's life (referring to the sand in an hourglass).

Derived terms

Translations

See sand/translations § Noun.

See also

Adjective

sand

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

Translations

See sand/translations § Adjective.

Etymology 2

From Middle English sanden, from the noun (see above).

Verb

sand (third-person singular simple present sands, present participle sanding, simple past and past participle sanded)

1. (transitive) To abrade the surface of (something) with sand or sandpaper in order to smooth or clean it.
2. (transitive) To cover with sand.
   • 1938, Xavier Herbert, Capricornia, New York: D. Appleton-Century, 1943, Chapter IX, page 141, [1]

     Sudden stopping, which could be effected easily by sanding the rails and reversing the driving-gear, was dangerous, because the train might telescope and overwhelm the engine.

   • 1958, Boris Pasternak, Doctor Zhivago, translated by Max Hayward and Manya Harari, New York: Pantheon, Chapter 4, page 96,

     The golden domes of churches and the freshly sanded paths in the town gardens were a glaring yellow.

3. (transitive, historical) To blot ink using sand.

Translations

See sand/translations § Verb.

See also

• Appendix:Colors

Etymology 3

Abbreviation of sand(piper).

Noun

sand (plural sands)

1. (colloquial) A sandpiper.

Anagrams

• ANDs, DNAs, Dans, NADS, NDAs, and's, ands, dans, nads

Afrikaans

Etymology

From Dutch zand, from Middle Dutch sant, from Old Dutch *sant, from Proto-Germanic *samdaz, from Proto-Indo-European *sámh?d?os.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sant/

Noun

sand (plural sande, diminutive sandjie)

1. sand

Derived terms

• sandkorrel

Danish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /san/, [san?]
• Rhymes: -an?
• Rhymes: -and

Etymology 1

From Old Norse sannr, saðr, from Proto-Germanic *sanþaz, from Proto-Indo-European *h?sónts (“being, existing”), the present participle of *h?es- (“to be”).

Adjective

sand

1. true

Inflection

Related terms

• sandelig

Etymology 2

From Old Norse sandr, from Proto-Germanic *samdaz, from Proto-Indo-European *sámh?d?os.

Noun

sand n (singular definite sandet, not used in plural form)

1. sand (finely ground rock)

Declension

See also

• sand on the Danish Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^da

Faroese

Noun

sand

1. accusative of sandur

Icelandic

Noun

sand

1. indefinite accusative singular of sandur

Middle English

Alternative forms

• sande, sond, sonde, saunde

Etymology

From Old English sand, from Proto-Germanic *samdaz, from Proto-Indo-European *sámh?d?os.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sa?nd/, /sand/, /s?nd/

Noun

sand (uncountable)

1. sand (finely ground rock)
2. A grain of sand.
3. A shoal, the sea floor.
4. Land, dry ground.

Derived terms

• quyksande

Descendants

• Scots: sand
• English: sand
• Yola: zoane

References

• “s??nd, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-04-05.

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Old Norse sandr (“sand, sandy ground, sandbanks”), from Proto-Germanic *samdaz (“sand”), from Proto-Indo-European *sámh?d?os (“sand”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /s?n/
• Homophone: sann
• Rhymes: -?n

Noun

sand m (definite singular sanden)

1. sand

Derived terms

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Old Norse sandr. Akin to English sand.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /s?nd/, /s?n?/

Noun

sand m (definite singular sanden)

1. sand

Derived terms

Further reading

• “sand” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Old English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /s?nd/

Etymology 1

From Proto-Germanic *sand?. See also the verb sendan.

Noun

sand f

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

Descendants

• Middle English: sande, sonde

Etymology 2

From Proto-Germanic *samdaz, from Proto-Indo-European *sámh?d?os. Compare Old Frisian sand, Old Saxon sand, Old High German sant, Old Norse sandr.

Noun

sand n

1. sand, gravel
2. sand by the sea, sands, seashore, sandy shore, beach

Derived terms

• sandi?

Descendants

• Middle English: sand, sande, sond, sonde, saunde
  • Scots: sand
  • English: sand
  • Yola: zoane

Old Saxon

Etymology

Akin to Old Norse sandr.

Noun

sand n

1. beach

Swedish

Etymology

From Old Swedish sander, from Old Norse sandr, from Proto-Germanic *samdaz, from Proto-Indo-European *sámh?d?os.

Pronunciation

Noun

sand c

1. sand (finely ground rock)

Declension

Related terms

References

• sand in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)

Anagrams

• ands, dans

English

Etymology

From Middle English erthe, from Old English eorþe (“earth, ground, soil, dry land”), from Proto-West Germanic *erþu, from Proto-Germanic *erþ? (“earth, ground, soil”) (compare West Frisian ierde, Low German Eerd, Dutch aarde, Dutch Low Saxon eerde, German Erde, Danish, Swedish and Norwegian jord), related to *erwô (“earth”) (compare Old High German ero, perhaps Old Norse j?rfi), from Proto-Indo-European *h?er- (compare Ancient Greek *??? (*éra) in ????? (éraze, “on the ground”), perhaps Tocharian B yare (“gravel”).

Probably unrelated, and of unknown etymology, is Old Armenian ????? (erkir, “earth”). Likewise, the phonologically similar Proto-Semitic *?ar??- – whence Arabic ?????? (?ar?), Hebrew ?????? (?ere?) – is probably not related.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /???/
• (US) IPA^(key): /??/
• Rhymes: -??(?)?

Proper noun

earth

2. Alternative letter-case form of Earth; Our planet, third out from the Sun.

Usage notes

• The word earth is capitalized to Earth when used in context with other celestial bodies.

Translations

Noun

earth (countable and uncountable, plural earths)

1. (uncountable) Soil.

2. (uncountable) Any general rock-based material.

3. The ground, land (as opposed to the sky or sea).
4. (Britain) A connection electrically to the earth ((US) ground); on equipment: a terminal connected in that manner.
5. The lair (as a hole on the ground) of an animal such as fox.
6. A region of the planet; a land or country.
7. Worldly things, as against spiritual ones.
8. The world of our current life (as opposed to heaven or an afterlife).
9. The people on the globe.
10. (archaic) The human body.
11. (alchemy, philosophy and Taoism) The aforementioned soil- or rock-based material, considered one of the four or five classical elements.
12. (chemistry, obsolete) Any of certain substances now known to be oxides of metal, which were distinguished by being infusible, and by insolubility in water.

Derived terms

Translations

See also

Verb

earth (third-person singular simple present earths, present participle earthing, simple past and past participle earthed)

1. (Britain, transitive) To connect electrically to the earth.

   Synonym: ground

2. (transitive) To bury.
3. (transitive) To hide, or cause to hide, in the earth; to chase into a burrow or den.
4. (intransitive) To burrow.

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Derived terms

• earthing
• unearth

Translations

Anagrams

• Erath, Harte, Heart, Herat, Herta, Taher, Terah, Thera, hater, heart, rathe, rehat, th'are, thare