Synonyms of the word sand


SANDAUTHOR - BACKBONE - DIRT - FORTITUDE - GRIT - GUMPTION - GUTS - MOXIE - SANDPAPER - SMOOTH - SMOOTHEN - SOIL - WRITER

sand

  • n. (uncountable) Rock that is ground more finely than gravel, but is not as fine as silt (more formally,…
  • n. (countable, often in the plural) A beach or other expanse of sand.
  • n. (uncountable, dated, circa 1920) Personal courage.
  • n. (uncountable, geology) A particle from 62.5 microns to 2 mm in diameter, following the Wentworth scale.
  • n. A light beige colour, like that of typical sand.
  • n. (countable, obsolete) A single grain of sand.
  • n. (countable, figuratively) A moment or interval of time; the term or extent of one's life (referring to…
  • adj. Of a light beige colour, like that of typical sand.
  • v. (transitive) To abrade the surface of (something) with sand or sandpaper in order to smooth or clean it.
  • v. (transitive) To cover with sand.
  • v. (transitive, historical) To blot ink using sand.
  • n. (colloquial) A sandpiper.

author

  • n. The originator or creator of a work, especially of a literary composition.
  • n. Someone who writes books for a living.
  • n. The works of an author or authors.
  • v. (chiefly US) To create a work as its author.

backbone

  • n. The series of vertebrae, separated by disks, that encloses and protects the spinal cord, and runs down…
  • n. Any fundamental support, structure, or infrastructure.
  • n. Courage, fortitude, or strength.

dirt

  • n. Soil or earth.
  • n. A stain or spot (on clothes etc); any foreign substance that worsens appearance.
  • n. Previously unknown facts, or the invented "facts", about a person; gossip.
  • n. (figuratively) Meanness; sordidness.
  • n. (mining) In placer mining, earth, gravel, etc., before washing.
  • v. (transitive, rare) To make foul or filthy; soil; befoul; dirty.

fortitude

  • n. Mental or emotional strength that enables courage in the face of adversity.
  • n. (archaic) Physical strength.

grit

  • n. A collection of hard small materials, such as dirt, ground stone, debris from sandblasting or other such…
  • n. Inedible particles in food.
  • n. A measure of the relative coarseness of an abrasive material such as sandpaper, the smaller the number…
  • n. (geology) A hard, coarse-grained siliceous sandstone; gritstone. Also, a finer sharp-grained sandstone,…
  • n. Strength of mind; great courage or fearlessness; fortitude.
  • v. Apparently only in grit one's teeth: to clench, particularly in reaction to pain or anger.
  • v. To cover with grit.
  • v. To give forth a grating sound, like sand under the feet; to grate; to grind.
  • n. (usually in the plural) Husked but unground oats.
  • n. (usually in the plural) Coarsely ground corn or hominy used as porridge.

gumption

  • n. (Britain) common sense, initiative, resourcefulness.
  • n. (US) Energy of mind and body, enthusiasm.
  • n. (US) Boldness of enterprise; initiative or aggressiveness, guts; spunk; initiative.

guts

  • n. plural of gut.
  • n. The entrails or contents of the abdomen.
  • n. (slang) Courage; determination.
  • n. (slang) Content, substance.
  • n. (in the plural) The essential, core parts.
  • v. (informal) To show determination or courage (especially in the combination guts out).

moxie

  • n. nerve, spirit, backbone, determination and fortitude, courage, force of character.
  • n. verve, vigor, pep, energy, initiative.
  • n. wit, skill, know-how.

sandpaper

  • n. A strong paper coated with sand or other abrasive material for smoothing and polishing.
  • n. A sheet of such paper.
  • v. (transitive) To polish or grind (a surface) with or as if with sandpaper.

smooth

  • adj. Having a texture that lacks friction. Not rough.
  • adj. Without difficulty, problems, or unexpected consequences or incidents.
  • adj. Bland; glib.
  • adj. Flowing or uttered without check, obstruction, or hesitation; not harsh; fluent.
  • adj. (of a person) Suave; sophisticated.
  • adj. (of an action) Natural; unconstrained.
  • adj. (of a motion) Unbroken.
  • adj. (chiefly of water) Placid, calm.
  • adj. (of an edge) Lacking projections or indentations; not serrated.
  • adj. (of food or drink) Not grainy; having an even texture.
  • adj. (of a beverage) Having a pleasantly rounded flavor; neither rough nor astringent.
  • adj. (mathematics, of a function) Having derivatives of all finite orders at all points within the function’s…
  • adj. (mathematics, of a number) That factors completely into small prime numbers.
  • adj. (linguistics, classical studies, of a vowel) Lacking marked aspiration.
  • adj. (of muscles, medicine) Involuntary and non-striated.
  • adv. Smoothly.
  • n. Something that is smooth, or that goes smoothly and easily.
  • n. A smoothing action.
  • n. A domestic animal having a smooth coat.
  • n. A member of an anti-hippie fashion movement in 1970s Britain.
  • n. (statistics) The analysis obtained through a smoothing procedure.
  • v. To make smooth or even.
  • v. To make straightforward.
  • v. (statistics, image processing, digital audio) To capture important patterns in the data, while leaving…

smoothen

  • v. To make smooth.
  • v. To become smooth.

soil

  • n. (uncountable) A mixture of sand and organic material, used to support plant growth.
  • n. (uncountable) The unconsolidated mineral or organic material on the immediate surface of the earth that…
  • n. (uncountable) The unconsolidated mineral or organic matter on the surface of the earth that has been subjected…
  • n. Country or territory.
  • n. That which soils or pollutes; a stain.
  • n. A marshy or miry place to which a hunted boar resorts for refuge; hence, a wet place, stream, or tract…
  • n. Dung; compost; manure.
  • v. (transitive) To make dirty.
  • v. (intransitive) To become dirty or soiled.
  • v. (transitive, figuratively) To stain or mar, as with infamy or disgrace; to tarnish; to sully.
  • v. (reflexive) To dirty one's clothing by accidentally defecating while clothed.
  • v. To make invalid, to ruin.
  • v. To enrich with soil or muck; to manure.
  • n. (uncountable, euphemistic) Faeces or urine etc. when found on clothes.
  • n. (countable, medicine) A bag containing soiled items.
  • n. A wet or marshy place in which a boar or other such game seeks refuge when hunted.
  • v. To feed, as cattle or horses, in the barn or an enclosure, with fresh grass or green food cut for them,…

writer

  • n. A person who writes, or produces literary work.
  • n. (historical) A clerk of a certain rank in the service of the East India Company, who, after serving a…
  • n. Anything that writes or produces output.

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