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Etymology

Etymology tree substratebor. Proto-Indo-European *sámdʰos? Proto-Germanic *samdaz Proto-West Germanic *samd Old English sand Middle English sond English sand Inherited from Middle English sond, sand, from Old English sand, from Proto-West Germanic *samd, from Proto-Germanic *samdaz. See also North Frisian sun, Sön, sönj (“sand”), Saterland Frisian Sound (“sand”), West Frisian sân (“sand”), Dutch zand (“sand”), German and Luxembourgish Sand (“sand”), Yiddish זאַמד (zamd, “sand”), Danish, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk, and Swedish sand (“sand”), Faroese and Icelandic sandur (“sand”), Latin sabulum (“sand, gravel”), Ancient Greek ἄμαθος (ámathos, “sand”), English dialectal samel (“sand bottom”), Old Irish do·essim (“to pour out”), Latin sentina (“bilge water”), Lithuanian sémti (“to scoop”), Ancient Greek ἀμάω (amáō, “to gather”), ἄμη (ámē, “water bucket”).

inherited from *samdaz✻
inherited from *samd✻
inherited from sand
inherited from sond

Definitions

1
Rock that is ground more finely than gravel, but is not as fine as silt (more formally,…
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.
- For a spell we done pretty well. Then there came a reg'lar terror of a sou'wester same as you don't get one summer in a thousand, and blowed the shanty flat and ripped about half of the weir poles out of the sand.
- “We are addicted to sand but don’t know it because we don’t buy it as individuals,” says Aurora Torres, […]
- China’s hunger for sand is insatiable, its biggest dredging site at Lake Poyang produces 989,000 tonnes per day.
2
Personal courage.
- You may say what you want to, but in my opinion she had more sand in her than any girl I ever see; in my opinion she was just full of sand.
- He said, “I admire your sand but I believe you will find I am not liable for such claims. Let me say too that your valuation of the horse is high by about two hundred dollars.”
- There was youngsters all around him, and he stood there lookin’ at me and never turned a hair. He had sand, that Morrell.
A particle from 62.5 microns to 2 mm in diameter, following the Wentworth scale.
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1. A light beige colour, like that of typical sand.
2. 5
  A single grain of sand.
  - One sand another. Not more resembles that sweet rosy lad
3. 6
  A moment or interval of time
  A moment or interval of time; the term or extent of one's life (referring to the sand in an hourglass).
  - The sands are numbered that make up my life.
  - Cf. sands of time (idiom)
  - […] And, departing, leave behind us / Footprints on the sands of time […]
4. 7
  Dried mucus in the eye's inner corner, perhaps left from sleep (sleepy sand).
  - Sleep in your eyes, sleep crust, sand, eye gunk—whatever you call it, we all get it—that crusty stuff in the corners of your eyes when you wake up in the morning. "The medical term is 'rheum,' though you rarely hear it used," […]
5. Of a light beige colour, like that of typical sand.
6. To abrade the surface of (something) with sand or sandpaper in order to smooth or clean…
  To abrade the surface of (something) with sand or sandpaper in order to smooth or clean it.
7. 10
  To cover with sand.
  - 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.
  - The golden domes of churches and the freshly sanded paths in the town gardens were a glaring yellow.
8. 11
  To blot ink using sand.
  - The officer wrote until he had finished, read over to himself what he had written, sanded it, and handed it to Defarge, with the words "In secret."
9. Ellipsis of sandpiper.

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Derived

African sand fox, ant sand, belt-sand, bituminous sand, black sand, Blundellsands, Bolton-le-Sands, brain sand, bring sand to the beach, build on sand, built on sand, Burgh by Sands, bury one's head in the sand, cover sand, desand, desert sand, draw a line in the sand, draw lines in the sand, dunesand, enough sense to pound sand into a rathole, firesand, golden sand-eater, Grange-over-Sands, Great Sandy Desert, Great Wall of Sand, green sand, greensand, Halimeda sand, head in the sand, head-in-the-sand, ironsand, iron sand, javelin sand boa, kick sand in somebody's face, kinetic sand, line in the sand, Maplin Sands, Mojave sand-verbena, molding sand, naked sand rat · +265 more

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at sand. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

A definitional loop anchored at sand. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

7 hops · closes at sand

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.