different between sander vs sanded

English

Etymology

sand +? -er

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /?sænd?/

Noun

sander (plural sanders)

1. A person employed to sand wood.
2. A machine to mechanize the process of sanding.
3. (railway) A device which spreads sand on the rails in wet, snowy or icy conditions to improve traction.
4. (historical) A small device resembling a salt shaker but containing sand that was shaken over a document to remove excess ink.

Derived terms

• random orbital sander
• belt sander

Related terms

• (sense 3) sanding gear

Translations

Anagrams

• Anders, Andres, Dranes, Naders, Rendas, Snader, dearns, denars, redans, resand, sandre, snared

Old Swedish

Etymology

From Old Norse sannr, from Proto-Germanic *sanþaz.

Adjective

sander

1. true, real

Declension

Descendants

• Swedish: sann

English

Verb

sanded

1. simple past tense and past participle of sand

Adjective

sanded (not comparable)

1. (of a surface) Having been smoothed through any process.
2. Covered with sand.
   • 1958, Ovid, The Metamorphoses, translated by Horace Gregory, New York: Viking, Book XIII, p. 370,

     Your funeral wreath shall be your mother's tears,

     Your tomb the sanded waste of foreign shores.

   • 1976, Edna O'Brien, Mother Ireland, New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Chapter 3, p. 66,

     The fishes in your imagination were flesh pink, medium sized like dab, and the loaves were white like altar breads, only fatter and spongier. The place where the miracle occurred was green and leafy and not at all the sparse sanded land that you were later to see.

Anagrams

• dedans, desand, sadden