(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.
Example Sentences:
(1) The characteristics of the iodide-induced inhibition of cyclic AMP accumulation in dog thyroid slices have been previously described [Van Sande, J., Cochaux, P. and Dumont, J. E. (1985) Mol.
(2) Two control trials were conducted against Ae.samoanus larvae in Pandanus, one using a sand culture of the parasitic nematode Romanomermis culicivorax and the other with temephos, an organophosphate insecticide.
(3) Before you take out your bucket and spade, though, you might like to look at the sand sculpture festival (until 5 September; prices vary from day to day) for inspiration.
(4) "And secondly, there will also be help with sand bags, which could help prevent further flooding."
(5) GNM announced in October that Marc Sands, the marketing director, was to leave the company .
(6) benj67 asks: How do you continue to justify continued your role in financing the Canadian tar sands, arguably a greater crime than the Libor scandal?
(7) Hansen has been an outspoken critic of tar sands, saying last year "it will be game over for the climate if development of the oil sands isn't stopped".
(8) Images of dead ducks in oil sands tailings pond have been plastered on billboards in Denver, Portland, Seattle and Minneapolis.
(9) Bacterial genera in the GAC effluents and in the GAC units themselves were similar to those found in the raw water and in the sand beds.
(10) He exited the sand trap sideways, was ultimately left 8ft for par but missed to the left.
(11) The prevalence of canine toxocariasis in pet dogs and the associated environmental contamination were studied through examination of 107 faecal and 20 sand-pits samples for Toxocara sp eggs.
(12) Most definitive results were obtained when seedlings were ground in the presence of sand and in a medium containing sorbitol.
(13) Sanding operations also were found to produce a higher proportion of respirable dust (22%) than other woodworking operations (6%-14%).
(14) The fertilization reaction of echinoderm eggs (Lytechinus pictus, a sea urchin, and Dendraster excentricus, a sand dollar) was followed with intracellular electrodes.
(15) Since its 2013 announcement, a key aim of TTIP has been to destroy regulations that prevent high-polluting tar sand crude oil from entering Europe.
(16) As fighter jets screamed overhead and tanks churned up the sand, it looked and sounded like the violent protests sweeping the Middle East had spread to the wealthy emirate of Abu Dhabi.
(17) When my floor was dirty, I rose early, and, setting all my furniture out of doors on the grass, bed and bedstead making but one budget, dashed water on the floor, and sprinkled white sand from the pond on it, and then with a broom scrubbed it clean and white... Further - and this is a stroke of his sensitive, pawky genius - he contemplates his momentarily displaced furniture and the nuance of enchanting strangeness: It was pleasant to see my whole household effects out on the grass, making a little pile like a gypsy's pack, and my three-legged table, from which I did not remove the books and pen and ink, standing amid the pines and hickories ...
(18) Fracking for shale gas involves digging, often as deep as a kilometre down, and pumping a mix of water, sand and chemicals into surrounding rock to fracture it and release the gas.
(19) Read more on Scottish independence • ' I believe in solidarity with the folk living south of Carlisle ' • ' The UK is on shifting sands – we can't assume survival ' • ' Better Together is truly scraping the barrel now ' The fact is that far from fearing the breakup of the UK, the English are looking at the benefits that devolution has brought the Scots and asking why they are not able to enjoy the same.
(20) The formation of three-dimensional waves and the distance travelled increased with increasing viscosity up to 4% sodium alginate and also amongst sand gains in these media.
Sandpaper
Definition:
(n.) Paper covered on one side with sand glued fast, -- used for smoothing and polishing.
(v. t.) To smooth or polish with sandpaper; as, to sandpaper a door.
Example Sentences:
(1) A model of an irregular anterior corneal surface was developed in deepithelialized calf eyes using grade 8-0 sandpaper.
(2) The sapphire home button of the iPhone 5S resisted all scratches from both sandpapers.
(3) The searing aftermath, as your throat rages as though sandpapered and your anus screams like a scalded button.
(4) A softer garnet sandpaper, which is about six on the Mohs scale, and emery, which is about eight on the Mohs scale, were used on the two screens.
(5) The remaining scapha is straightened and the superior crus and antihelical fold are formed by scratching and sandpaper abrasion of the lateral surface.
(6) Two years ago Steve Jobs, then Apple chief executive, dismissed the idea of a 7in tablet "unless your tablet also includes sandpaper, so that the user can sand down their fingers to around one-quarter of the present size" to use the smaller touchscreen.
(7) In Experiment 1, rats were trained on a discrimination between rubber- and sandpaper-covered arms of a maze after one group had been pre-exposed to these intra-maze cues.
(8) Stress in the longitudinal direction was radiographically calculated in the cast specimens (6 mm X 18 mm) after casting, sandpaper polishing, oxidation, and each firing process.
(9) Sections of 15 microns are obtained by cutting the trimmed and sandpapered polyester blocks with an LKB multirange microtome.
(10) Sections 10 microns thick are obtained by cutting the trimmed and sandpapered acrylic blocks on an LKB multirange microtome.
(11) Sandpaper wrapped around a motor-driven cylinder is effective in broad, flat areas but is difficult to use around the eyes and nose.
(12) Up to 12 different conditions defined by different combinations of object weights (15, 65, and 115 g) and four surface textures (oiled metal, smooth metal, fine and coarse sandpaper) were used.
(13) "; "Very, very good, thank you" – Johnson went downhill at an alarming pace until by the interview's close, admitting he had "sandpapered" quotes as a Times journalist, failing to deny he lied to the party leader at the time, Michael Howard, about an extramarital affair and conceding that he had humoured an old friend when he asked for a phone number in the knowledge that the friend intended to beat up the owner of it.
(14) The new video shows Marques Brownlee scratch both an iPhone 5S screen – which uses the third generation of Gorilla Glass – and the alleged iPhone 6 4.7in screen with two different types of sandpaper.
(15) The output of Third Man Records is wilfully unconventional: White recently produced a new album with Neil Young – A Letter Home , acoustic versions of Young's favourite songs – but they recorded it in a 1947 Voice-o-Graph booth that imbues the tracks with a sandpaper crackle.
(16) Cameron is a smooth old Etonian; Thatcher was a grammar school girl made from sandpaper.
(17) If conditions permitted, the cell discharge was also recorded during lifting of objects of various weights (15, 65, or 115 g) or different surface textures (sandpaper or polished metal), and when possible the cutaneous or proprioceptive fields of the neurons were characterized with the use of natural stimulation.
(18) And the hypothetical 7-inch iPad would easily fit in a 5.5" -wide jacket pocket: Lastly, there's another reason for Apple to forget the sandpaper and, instead, throw sand into Amazon's and Google's (purported) 7" tablet gears.
(19) Down the crackly phone line, it sounds like sandpaper being scraped against a pebbledash wall.
(20) In the first experiment, dentin specimens were divided into following three groups: dentin surface polished with carborundum-point, carborundum-point and #150 sandpaper and carborundum-point, #150 sandpaper and #240 sandpaper.