| NOUN | substance | sand | a loose material consisting of grains of rock or coral |
|---|---|---|---|
| person | Sand, George Sand, Amandine Aurore Lucie Dupin, Baroness Dudevant | French writer known for works concerning women's rights and independence (1804-1876) | |
| attribute | sand, backbone, grit, guts, moxie, gumption | fortitude and determination | |
| VERB | contact | sand, sandpaper | rub with sandpaper |
| Sounds | sae'nd | |
|---|---|---|
| Rhymes | ampersand ... woodland: 90 rhymes with aend... | |
| Meaning | A loose material consisting of grains of rock or coral. | |
|---|---|---|
| Broader | soil, dirt | The part of the earth's surface consisting of humus and disintegrated rock |
| Substance of | beach | An area of sand sloping down to the water of a sea or lake |
| concrete | A strong hard building material composed of sand and gravel and cement and water | |
| quicksand | A pit filled with loose wet sand into which objects are sucked down | |
| sandbar, sand bar | A bar of sand | |
| spit, tongue | A narrow strip of land that juts out into the sea | |
| Substances | silicon, Si, atomic number 14 | A tetravalent nonmetallic element |
| Spanish | arena | |
| Catalan | arena, sorra | |
| Adjectives | arenicolous | growing or living or burrowing in sand |
| sandy | resembling or containing or abounding in sand | |
| Meaning | French writer known for works concerning women's rights and independence (1804-1876). | |
|---|---|---|
| Synonyms | George Sand, Amandine Aurore Lucie Dupin, Baroness Dudevant | |
| Instance of | writer, author | Writes (books or stories or articles or the like) professionally (for pay) |
| Spanish | George Sand | |
| Catalan | George Sand | |
| Meaning | fortitude and determination. | |
|---|---|---|
| Synonyms | backbone, grit, guts, moxie, gumption | |
| Broader | fortitude | strength of mind that enables one to endure adversity with courage |
| Usage of | colloquialism | A colloquial expression |
| Spanish | agallas, cojones, coraje, discernimiento, huevos, moxie, nervio, sangre fría, valor | |
| Catalan | collons, coratge, moxie, ous, pebrots | |
| Meaning | rub with sandpaper. | |
|---|---|---|
| Pattern | Somebody ----s something | |
| Example | "sandpaper the wooden surface" | |
| Synonym | sandpaper | |
| Narrower | rough-sand | sand roughly |
| Broader | smooth, smoothen | make smooth or smoother, as if by rubbing |
| Spanish | lijar | |
| Catalan | escatar, passar paper de vidre | |
| Nouns | sander | a power tool used for sanding wood |
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