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▸ noun: (countable) A specific grade, type, or composition of sand.
▸ noun: (countable, often in the plural) A beach or other mass of sand.
▸ noun: (uncountable, dated) Personal courage.
▸ noun: (uncountable, geology) A particle from 62.5 microns to 2 mm in diameter, following the Wentworth scale.
▸ noun: A light beige colour, like that of typical sand.
▸ noun: (countable, obsolete) A single grain of sand.
▸ noun: (countable, figurative) A moment or interval of time; the term or extent of one's life (referring to the sand in an hourglass).
▸ noun: Dried mucus in the eye's inner corner, perhaps left from sleep (sleepy sand).
▸ noun: (uncountable, figurative) "sand in [someone's] eyes" (idiom):
▸ noun: An excuse for tears.
▸ 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.
▸ verb: (transitive) To cover with sand.
▸ verb: (transitive, historical) To blot ink using sand.
▸ noun: (colloquial) A sandpiper.
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