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单词 sandbox
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sandboxn.

Etymology: < sand n.2 + box n.2Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: ˈsand-box.
1. A box with a perforated top for sprinkling sand as a blotter upon the wet ink of a manuscript. Obsolete exc. Historical.
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sand-glass1806
pounce pot1925
1572 J. Higgins Huloets Dict. (rev. ed.) (at cited word) Sandboxe, or a duste boxe, to spreade dust on writing.
a1627 T. Middleton Women beware Women iv. ii, in 2 New Playes (1657) 180 He would prick my skull as full of holes as a Scriveners Sand-Box.
1681 London Gaz. No. 1637/8 Stolen,..a Silver Inkhorn, the Sand box to it left behind.
1740 J. Swift Will (1746) 22 I bequeath to Deane Swift Esq;..an Ink Pot, a Sand Box and a Bell.
1858 T. Carlyle Hist. Friedrich II of Prussia II. vi. vi. 75Erz-Sandstreuer’, who solemnly brings up the Sandbox (no blotting-paper yet in use) when the Holy Roman Empire is pleased to write.
2. A box holding sand for various purposes; esp.
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a. A sand-mould.
b. A box of sand on a locomotive (see quot. 1850) for use when the wheels slip.
c. A receptacle for the sand used to ‘tee’ the ball on a golf course.
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1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory iii. 382/2 He beareth Gules, a Lapidaries Sand Box, or Dust Box, covered, Or... In such kind of Boxes with covers, Lapidaries keep their fine Dust of Diamond..made into a kind of Sand.
1833 J. Holland Treat. Manuf. Metal II. 39 So largely has the sand-box superseded the anvil in this manufacture [of scissors].
1850 J. Weale Rudim. Dict. Terms Archit. iii. 386/2 Sand-boxes, in locomotive engines, boxes filled with sand, usually placed near the driving wheels, with a pipe to guide the sand to the rails.
1859 J. R. Bartlett Dict. Americanisms (ed. 2) Sand-Box, a primitive sort of spittoon, consisting of a wooden box filled with sand.
1875 R. Hunt & F. W. Rudler Ure's Dict. Arts (ed. 7) III. 750 The sand-box [of a sand-blast apparatus].
1901 Scotsman 5 Nov. 8/4 Proceeding to the sand-box at the first tee.
d. A small low-sided sandpit (cf. sandpit n. 3). Chiefly U.S.
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sandpit1898
sandbox1937
1937 L. B. Murphy Social Behavior & Child Personality ii. 53 Agatha said, ‘Want to play in the sand box, Theodore, huh? Do you?’
1968 Globe & Mail (Toronto) 17 Feb. 39 Divided they stand not unlike urchins defying each other in the sandbox.
1969 C. Davidson in A. Cockburn & R. Blackburn Student Power 329 The forms given us for our self-government are of the Mickey Mouse, sand-box variety.
1976 National Observer (U.S.) 8 May 20/4 All the men in her life, from sandbox playmate to lip-smacking savage.
e. A box kept indoors and filled with sand or other material for a cat to defecate in.
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the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > keeping dogs or cats > [noun] > cattery or cat-house > sand-box
sand-tray1893
tray1938
sandbox1967
1967 L. J. Braun Cat who ate Danish Mod. viii. 73 Qwilleran showed Koko the new location of his sandbox and gave him his old toy mouse.
1971 J. McClure Steam Pig viii. 98 The Daily Post..an evening rag not worth putting in the cat's sand-box.
1974 M. G. Eberhart Danger Money (1975) iv. 40 I've fixed up a sandbox for the cat.
3. The fruit of the West Indian forest tree, Hura crepitans. Also, the tree itself.
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the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > non-British trees or shrubs > South American and West Indian trees or shrubs > [noun] > sand-box
sandbox1750
sand-hooker tree1796
monkey's dinner bell1849
the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > non-British trees or shrubs > South American and West Indian trees or shrubs > [noun] > sand-box > fruit of
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1750 G. Hughes Nat. Hist. Barbados 114 The Sand-box Tree.
1750 G. Hughes Nat. Hist. Barbados 115 These Trees are called Sand-boxes from the Use that is made of their Fruit to that Purpose.
1758 J. Parsons in Philos. Trans. 1757 (Royal Soc.) 50 405 This is undoubtedly the young Sand-box, or fruit of the Hura.
1885 A. Brassey In Trades 178 We made our first halt, under a large sand-box-tree.

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Computing. An environment (environment n. 5) in a computer system in which an item of software or code can be run securely, without being able to access (and be accessed by) other parts of the system.Chiefly used in the development of software or for protection against malware; see sandboxing n.
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1993 CVS Experiences Summary in comp.software-eng 11 Oct. (Usenet newsgroup, accessed 8 Aug. 2019) There was no way to share any binaries because everything was in a local sandbox.
1996 InfoWorld 15 July 40/3 Java applets are currently contained within secure data packets called sandboxes, which prevent them from infiltrating a network.
2008 V. O. Safonov Using Aspect-oriented Programming for Trustworthy Software Devel. v. 235 When changes are made and tested in the sandbox, they can be integrated by the putback command.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1909; most recently modified version published online June 2021).
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