Cát

( số nhiều) bãi cát, lớp cát (ở dưới đáy); (từ Mỹ,nghĩa Mỹ) bãi biển

(thông tục) tính kiên định; sức chịu đựng; lòng can đảm

Màu cát

numberless as the sand(s)

vô số, hằng hà sa số

the sands are running out

sắp đến lúc

Đổ cát, phủ cát, rải cát

Trộn cát (vào đường, vào len) để gian lận

Đánh bóng bằng cát

hỗn hợp làm khuôn

cọ bằng cát

đổ cát

trộn cát

đánh bóng (giấy ráp)

lấp cát

màu cát

cát

chà

dải cát

đánh bằng giấy nhám

bãi cát

mài bằng cát

phủ cát

sự lấy mẫu

rắc đường cát

N.

A loose granular substance resulting from thewearing down of esp. siliceous rocks and found on the seashore,river-beds, deserts, etc.

(in pl.) grains of sand.

(inpl.) an expanse or tracts of sand.

A light yellow-browncolour like that of sand.

(in pl.) a sandbank.

US colloq.firmness of purpose; grit.

V.tr.

Smooth or polish withsandpaper or sand.

Sprinkle or overlay with, or bury under,sand.

Adulterate (sugar etc.) with sand.

A crack in thehuman foot from walking on hot sand.

A crack in brick due toimperfect mixing. sand dollar US any of various round flat seaurchins, esp. of the order Clypeasteroida. sand-dune (or -hill)a mound or ridge of sand formed by the wind. sand eel anyeel-like fish of the family Ammodytidae or Hypotychidae: alsocalled LAUNCE. sand-flea a chigoe or sand-hopper. sand-glass =HOURGLASS. sand-groper Austral.

A gold-rush pioneer.

Joc.a Western Australian. sand-hill a dune. sand-hopper any ofvarious small jumping crustaceans of the order Amphipoda,burrowing on the seashore. sand-martin a swallow-like bird,Riparia riparia, nesting in the side of a sandy bank etc. thesands are running out the allotted time is nearly at an end.sand-shoe a shoe with a canvas, rubber, hemp, etc., sole for useon sand. sand-skipper = sand-hopper. sand-yacht a boat onwheels propelled along a beach by wind.

Sander n. sandlikeadj. [OE sand f. Gmc]