sand

1. 1.

   rub with sandpaper

   “sandpaper the wooden surface”

   Synonymssandpaper

   Broadersmooth

   Narrowerrough-sand

Other forms of sand

plural

sands·

past tense

sanded·

present participle

sanding·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about sand

What does sand mean?

sand means "a loose material consisting of grains of rock or coral". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in sand?

sand has 1 syllable: sand. In IPA it is /ˈsænd/.

What is another word for sand?

Close synonyms include George Sand, Amandine Aurore Lucie Dupin, Baroness Dudevant, backbone, grit. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is sand a common word?

sand is banded "Common" — everyday vocabulary in speech and writing. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with sand?

2 words rhyme with sand. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.