Usually means: Sedimentary rock composed of sand.
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  1. sandstone: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. sandstone: Merriam-Webster
  3. sandstone: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. sandstone: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. sandstone: Collins English Dictionary
  6. sandstone: Vocabulary.com
  7. Sandstone, sandstone: Wordnik
  8. sandstone: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. sandstone: Wiktionary
  10. sandstone: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. sandstone: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. sandstone: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. sandstone: Dictionary.com
  14. sandstone: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Sandstone (disambiguation), Sandstone: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Sandstone: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. sandstone: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. sandstone: Rhymezone
  19. Sandstone: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. sandstone: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. sandstone: FreeDictionary.org
  22. sandstone: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. sandstone: TheFreeDictionary.com

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. sandstone: ArtLex Lexicon of Visual Art Terminology

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  1. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. sandstone: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

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  1. Archaeology Wordsmith (No longer online)
  2. Sandstone: LITHICS-NET's Glossary of Lithics Terminology
  3. Illustrated Glossary of Geologic Terms (No longer online)
  4. sandstone: Natural History Terms

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  1. Sandstone: Urban Dictionary

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  1. Glossary of Coal Mining Terms (No longer online)
  2. SANDSTONE: Construction deterioration & building durability glossary
  3. Schlumberger Oilfield Glossary (No longer online)
  4. Oil and Gas Well Drilling and Servicing eTool (No longer online)

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▸ noun:  A sedimentary rock produced by the consolidation and compaction of sand, cemented with clay etc.
▸ noun:  A small town and local government area (the Shire of Sandstone) in the Mid West region, Western Australia.
▸ noun:  A place in the United States:
▸ noun:  A charter township and unincorporated community therein, in Jackson County, Michigan.
▸ noun:  A city and township in Pine County, Minnesota.
▸ noun:  An unincorporated community in Summers County, West Virginia.

Similar:
claystone, boundstone, sandcrete, mudstone, sandbody, calcrete, sedimentary, siltstone, aeolianite, carstone, more...

Opposite:
shale

Types:
arkose, graywacke, quartz sandstone, red sandstone, flagstone, more...

Phrases:
red sandstone, quartz sandstone, Navajo Sandstone, nubian sandstone, berea sandstone, more...

Adjectives:
red, grained, white, calcareous, gray, soft, coarse, brown, massive, hard, old

Colors:
    beige,     tan,     taupe,     khaki,     camel, more...

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Similar:
claystone, boundstone, sandcrete, mudstone, sandbody, calcrete, sedimentary, siltstone, aeolianite, carstone, more...

Opposite:
shale

Types:
arkose, graywacke, quartz sandstone, red sandstone, flagstone, more...

Phrases:
red sandstone, quartz sandstone, Navajo Sandstone, nubian sandstone, berea sandstone, argillaceous sandstone, oriskany sandstone, lithic sandstone, sandstone dike, Old Red Sandstone, New Red Sandstone, more...

Adjectives:
red, grained, white, calcareous, gray, soft, coarse, brown, massive, hard, old

Colors:
    beige,     tan,     taupe,     khaki,     camel, more...



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