Sand
[sænd]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) French writer known for works concerning women's rights and independence (1804-1876).
(noun.) a loose material consisting of grains of rock or coral.
乔校對--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(n.) Fine particles of stone, esp. of siliceous stone, but not reduced to dust; comminuted stone in the form of loose grains, which are not coherent when wet.
(n.) A single particle of such stone.
(n.) The sand in the hourglass; hence, a moment or interval of time; the term or extent of one's life.
(n.) Tracts of land consisting of sand, like the deserts of Arabia and Africa; also, extensive tracts of sand exposed by the ebb of the tide.
(n.) Courage; pluck; grit.
(v. t.) To sprinkle or cover with sand.
(v. t.) To drive upon the sand.
(v. t.) To bury (oysters) beneath drifting sand or mud.
(v. t.) To mix with sand for purposes of fraud; as, to sand sugar.
校對:诺琳
同義詞及近義詞:
n. Gravel, small pebbles.
v. a. Cover or sprinkle with sand.
艾琳校對
解釋/意思:
n. fine particles of crushed or worn rocks used in founding: force of character: (pl.) lands covered with sand: a sandy beach: moments of time from the use of sand in the hour-glass.—v.t. to sprinkle with sand.—ns. Sand′-bag (fort.) a canvas bag filled with sand or earth forming a ready means of giving cover against an enemy's fire or of tamping the charge in a mine: an engraver's leather cushion &c.; Sand′-bag′ger a robber who uses a sand-bag to stun his victims; Sand′-ball a ball of soap mixed with fine sand for the toilet; Sand′-band a guard-ring to keep sand from working into the axle-box; Sand′-bank a bank of sand formed by tides and currents; Sand′-bath a vessel of hot sand for heating vessels without direct exposure to the fire: a bath in which the body is covered with warm sea-sand: saburration; Sand′-bear the Indian badger; Sand′-bed the bed into which the iron from the blast-furnace is run; Sand′-bird a sandpiper: a shore bird; Sand′-blast sand driven by a blast of air or steam for cutting and engraving figures on glass or metal.—adj. Sand′-blind afflicted with partial blindness in which particles of sand seem to float before the eyes.—ns. Sand′-blind′ness; Sand′-blow′er a sand bellows; Sand′-box a box with a perforated top for sprinkling sand on writing a contrivance formerly used by way of blotting-paper: a box with sand to prevent the wheels of a rail from slipping; Sand′-brake a device for stopping trains automatically; Sand′-bug a burrowing crustacean: a digger-wasp; Sand′-bur a weed found in the plains of the western United States; Sand′-canal′ the stone canal of an echinoderm; Sand′-cherr′y the dwarf cherry; Sand′-cock the redshank; Sand′-crab the lady-crab; Sand′-crack a crack in a horse's hoof: a crack in a moulded brick before burning; Sand′-crick′et a name applied to certain large crickets in the western United States; Sand′-dab a kind of plaice; Sand′-dart a British noctuid moth; Sand′-dart′er -div′er a small etheostomine fish of the Ohio valley; Sand′-doll′ar a flat sea-urchin; Sand′-drift a mound of drifted sand; Sand′-dune a ridge of loose sand drifted by the wind.—adj. Sand′ed (Shak.) marked with yellow spots: sprinkled with sand: short-sighted.—ns. Sand′-eel a small eel-like fish which buries itself in the sand when the tide retires; Sand′erling a genus of birds of the snipe family characterised by the absence of a hind-toe common on the coast eating marine worms small crustaceans and bivalve molluscs; Sand′-fence a barrier in a stream of stakes and iron wire; Sand′-fish a fish of the genus Trichodon; Sand′-flag sandstone which splits up into flagstones; Sand′-flea the chigoe or jigger; Sand′-flood a moving mass of desert sand; Sand′-floun′der a common North American flounder; Sand′-fly a small New England biting midge; Sand′-glass a glass instrument for measuring time by the running out of sand; Sand′-grass grass that grows by the sea-shore; Sand′-grouse a small order of birds quite distinct from the true grouse having two genera Pterocles and Syrrhaptes with beautiful plumage heavy body long and pointed wings very short legs and toes; Sand′-heat the heat of warm sand in chemical operations; Sand′-hill a hill of sand; Sand′-hill crane the brown crane of North America; Sand′-hill′er one of the poor whites living in the sandy hills of Georgia; Sand′-hop′per a small crustacean in the order Amphipoda often seen on the sandy sea-shore like swarms of dancing flies leaping up by bending the body together and throwing it out with a sudden jerk: a sand-flea; Sand′-horn′et a sand-wasp; Sand′iness sandy quality esp. as regards colour; Sand′ing the process of testing the surface of gilding after it has been fired with fine sand and water: the process of burying oysters in sand.—adj. Sand′ish (obs.).—ns. Sand′-jet (see Sand′-blast); Sand′-lark a wading-bird that runs along the sand: a sandpiper; Sand′-liz′ard a common lizard; Sand′-lob the common British lug or lob worm; Sand′-mar′tin the smallest of British swallows which builds its nest in sandy river-banks and gravel-pits; Sand′-mā′son a common British tube-worm; Sand′-mole a South African rodent; Sand′-mouse the dunlin: a sandpiper; Sand′-natt′er a sand-snake; Sand′-pā′per paper covered with a kind of sand for smoothing and polishing; Sand′-peep the American stint: the peetweet; Sand′-perch the grass-bass; Sand′piper a wading-bird of the snipe family which frequents sandy river-banks distinguished by its clear piping note.—n.pl. Sand′-pipes perpendicular cylindrical hollows tapering to a point occurring in chalk deposits and so called from being usually filled with sand gravel or clay.—ns. Sand′-pit a place from which sand is extracted; Sand′-plov′er a ring-necked plover; Sand′-pride a very small species of lamprey found in the rivers of Britain; Sand′-pump a long cylinder with valved piston for use in drilling rocks—a Sand′-sludg′er: a sand-ejector modified from the jet-pump used in caissons for sinking the foundations of bridges; Sand′-rat a geomyoid rodent esp. the camass rat; Sand′-reed a shore grass; Sand′-reel a windlass used in working a sand-pump; Sand′-ridge a sand-bank; Sand′-roll a metal roll cast in sand; Sand′-run′ner a sandpiper; Sand′-sau′cer a round mass of agglutinated egg-capsules of a naticoid gasteropod found on beaches; Sand′-scoop a dredge for scooping up sand; Sand′-screen a sand-sifter; Sand′-screw an amphipod which burrows in the sand; Sand′-shark a small voracious shark; Sand′-shot small cast-iron balls cast in sand; Sand′-shrimp a shrimp; Sand′-skink a European skink found in sandy places; Sand′-skip′per a beach flea; Sand′-snake a short-tailed boa-like serpent; Sand′-snipe the sandpiper; Sand′-spout a moving pillar of sand; Sand′star a starfish: a brittle star; Sand′-stone a rock formed of compacted and more or less indurated sand (Old Red Sandstone a name given to a series of strata—along with the parallel but nowhere coexisting Devonian—intermediate in age between the Silurian and Carboniferous systems); Sand′-storm a storm of wind carrying along clouds of sand; Sand′-suck′er the rough dab; Sand′-throw′er a tool for throwing sand on newly sized or painted surfaces; Sand′-trap a device for separating sand from running water; Sand′-vī′per a hog-nosed snake; Sand′-washer an apparatus for separating sand from earthy substances; Sand′-wasp a digger-wasp.—v.t. Sand′-weld to weld iron with sand.—ns. Sand′-worm a worm that lives in the sand; Sand′-wort any plant of the genus Arenaria.—adj. Sand′y consisting of or covered with sand: loose: of the colour of sand.—n. a nick-name for a Scotsman (from Alexander).—ns. Sand′y-car′pet a geometrid moth; Sand′y-lav′erock (Scot.) a sand-lark.
巴兹尔錄入
娱乐性解釋/意思:
To dream of sand, is indicative of famine and losses.
海伦娜編輯
例句/造句/用法:
- Somewhat as a house is composed of a group of bricks, or a sand heap of grains of sand, the human body is composed of small divisions called cells. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科學通論.
- I twisted round on the sand and looked behind me. 威爾基·柯林斯. 月亮寶石.
- Brass tubes can easily be bent by ramming full of sand, stopping the ends, and bending them over a curved surface. 威廉K.大衛. 智者、化學家和偉大醫生的秘密.
- She blew long enough to show that the sand had all slipped through. 湯瑪斯·哈代. 還鄉.
- This would be very valuable if the iron could be separated from the sand. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- The surplus water is best removed by centrifugal pumps, since sand and sticks which would clog the valves of an ordinary pump are passed along without difficulty by the rotating wheel. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科學通論.
- A little further on, I passed the boy crouching for shelter under the lee of the sand hills. 威爾基·柯林斯. 月亮寶石.
- The bones of his gallant army have whitened the sands of Palestine. 沃爾特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
- As he was proceeding along the sands, he struck his foot against something, and fell all his length on the ground. 瑪麗·雪萊. 弗蘭肯斯坦.
- The wind blows about the sands of the desert; the position of the grains is changed. 約翰·杜威. 民主與教育.
- Something interfered, and we did not visit the Red Sea and walk upon the sands of Arabia. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- Most of the sands which we find on the beaches and in other places are the ruins of rocks which have come apart, usually as the result of the action of water. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- I climbed a near tree: the level sands bounded by a pine forest, and the sea clipped round by the horizon, was all that I could discern. 瑪麗·雪萊. 最後一個人.
- At the sands, of course! 威爾基·柯林斯. 月亮寶石.
- Then there are steam sanding devices for locomotives by which sand is automatically fed to the rails at the same time the air brake is applied. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世紀發明.
- As you hope ever to be forgiven, Mr. Rivers, the high crime and misdemeanour of spoiling a sanded kitchen, tell me what I wish to know. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 簡·愛.
- 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. 查理斯·狄更斯. 雙城記.
- It was chiefly a noise of feet, briskly crunching hither and thither over the sanded floor within. 湯瑪斯·哈代. 還鄉.
- He used folded sanded paper--it may have been a tube--and through this he drew a stick coated with chlorate of potash and phosphorus. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世紀發明.
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