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How to pronounce “sand”
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Pronunciation guide for sand
- Learning goal
- Practice the English pronunciation of sand with real speech in context.
- Available examples
- 8 YouTube examples
- Real speech example
- Gary Greenberg: The beautiful nano details of our world 12 minutes, 7 seconds
thousands of individual eyes called ommatidia,
- Definition summary
- (uncountable) 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.
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How to pronounce sand
Gary Greenberg: The beautiful nano details of our world 12 minutes, 7 seconds
thousands of individual eyes called ommatidia,
Example Sentences
A Deep Dive Into “sand”
Meaning
- [Noun]
- (uncountable) 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.
- (uncountable, dated) Personal courage.
- (uncountable, geology) A particle from 62.5 microns to 2 mm in diameter, following the Wentworth scale.
- A light beige colour, like that of typical sand.
- (countable, obsolete) A single grain of sand.
- (countable, figurative) A moment or interval of time; the term or extent of one's life (referring to the sand in an hourglass).
- Dried mucus in the eye's inner corner, perhaps left from sleep (sleepy sand).
- [Adjective]
- Of a light beige colour, like that of typical sand.
- [Verb]
- (transitive) To abrade the surface of (something) with sand or sandpaper in order to smooth or clean it.
- (transitive) To cover with sand.
- (transitive, historical) To blot ink using sand.
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