(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.
Sandpit
Definition:
(n.) A pit or excavation from which sand is or has been taken.
Example Sentences:
(1) After 30 days working on the surface – essentially a large sandpit – the crew face a 240-day "return trip".
(2) The clothes are at the forefront of Shibuya fashion, taking cues from the park sandpit, the urban divebar and grandma's wardrobe, and reworking them into a cutesy package for teenagers.
(3) Halfway through the mission three of the crew clambered into spacesuits and stepped into a sandpit in a mock expedition on to the surface of the red planet .
(4) So popular is Savage that it’s now every Friday and Saturday night at the Metropolis stripclub in east London, where you can swing off the poles and jump into the tropical sandpit till silly o’clock.
(5) Eight species of dermatophytes and closely related fungi were recovered, of which the followings were the most commonly found species in sandpits: Chrysosporium keratinophilum (20.7%), Microsporum gypseum (17.2%), Trichophyton mentagrophytes (6.9%), and C. evolceanui (6.9%).
(6) From here, he has a reassuring domestic view down past John's paddling pool and tortoise-shaped sandpit ("Amazing what you can buy now") to the kitchen that he and Sarah have recently modernised ("We took out two walls, changed the structure a bit, and it's incredible how much light is let in").
(7) The highlight of their voyage will be a simulated spacewalk on Mars, which will take place in a large sandpit.
(8) The keratinophilic fungi of 29 sandpits from kindergarten schools and public parks in the city of Nablus was analysed to evaluate their role in the epidemiology of diseases caused by these fungi.
(9) Today journalists toured the sandpit while wearing 3D glasses – the experience was similar to wandering inside a dark and disappointing Moscow nightclub.
(10) Total viable count from the sandpits was highest in the surface layer sample than the inner layer throughout the year.
(11) You will cross farmland, and may encounter grazing livestock so, although dogs are certainly welcome, they must be kept under control, especially in Sandpit Field.
(12) While the Mars500 experiment aimed to recreate the long voyage, several important factors were left out: the results of weightlessness, potential radiation poisoning, and the fact they spent just a short amount of time in a dusty sandpit that bears little resemblance to Mars.
(13) In view of the results it can be concluded that park sandpits are not, from a hygienic point of view, to be an ideal environment for children to play in.
(14) "A lot of the children were beginning to draw pictures of the floods, and in the sandpits, they would build dams," he says.
(15) The complex has a track, an indoor sandpit for long jump and a gallery for spectators.
(16) This leisure sandwich is even topped off by a penthouse nursery with a ziggurat of ball pools and sandpits on its own roof terrace.
(17) The retailer also stocks a large range of toys, from plastic sandpits to trikes, under its Early Learning Centre brand.
(18) To my left a scientist is remotely manipulating a robot in a large sandpit.
(19) Photograph: Pierre Crom A short walk away over shattered glass, shell craters and a child’s sandpit, a middle-aged soldier placidly cleans his machine-gun in a firewood shed, just a few hundred metres from Ukrainian positions.
(20) It will come as no surprise that owners Tamar and Miguel have children of their own: they've thought of everything to make families feel at home, from books and toys to a trampoline, sandpit and wooden pirate ship.