Strong tidal currents there have since dumped several square miles worth of sand into the bay behind Fire Island, creating wide, shallow flats perfect for trying out the new platform.
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Others are insisting the oil sands will remain the economic heart of the region for decades to come.
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The coating allows moisture to stick and absorb to the sand.
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So we cross-registered in the animation department at the Massachusetts College of Art and Design twice in our sophomore year, learning things like hand drawing with a light table, experimental sand animation, and digital animation.
Throw a grain of sand in the machinery and we have an outage like yesterday.
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And there, the sand castle builder and tag player who loved her aunt more than science would be buried.
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To see how a global ocean could affect libration, take two bottles, fill one with sand and the other with water, then spin them.
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The book is the line in the sand, proof that she is not, as she is so often conflated, the Hannah Horvath she has created.
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I kneel with the journalist in the sand, my face stoic and yet terrified, crying, knowing that I can do nothing but wait.
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Volcanoes spewed lava and ash, ocean floors were thrust upward, sand and rock and shale settled into slurry.
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The surface is porous; the cells are distant and arranged irregularly, and seem as if composed of sand cemented with mud.
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Here, on a narrow strip of sand, he undressed and leaped into the waves.
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How he had planned, dug, planted it; pruned his fruit trees; placed his anemones in leaf-mould, his bulbs on sand.
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It cannot be accounted for entirely by the friction, as the removal of the paper allows the sand to drop in a mass.
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The increase in length of runs and quantity of sand removed under low temperature conditions is very marked.
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British Dictionary definitions for sand (1 of 2)
sand
/ (sænd) /
noun
loose material consisting of rock or mineral grains, esp rounded grains of quartz, between 0.05 and 2 mm in diameter
(often plural)a sandy area, esp on the seashore or in a desert
a greyish-yellow colour
(as adjective)sand upholstery
the grains of sandlike material in an hourglass
USinformalcourage; grit
draw a line in the sandto put a stop to or a limit on
the sands are running outthere is not much time left before death or the end
verb
(tr)to smooth or polish the surface of with sandpaper or sandto sand a floor
(tr)to sprinkle or cover with or as if with sand; add sand to
to fill or cause to fill with sandthe channel sanded up
Derived forms of sand
sandlike, adjective
Word Origin for sand
Old English; related to Old Norse sandr, Old High German sant, Greek hamathos
British Dictionary definitions for sand (2 of 2)
Sand
/ (Frenchsɑ̃d) /
noun
George (ʒɔrʒ), pen name of Amandine Aurore Lucie Dupin. 1804–76, French novelist, best known for such pastoral novels as La Mare au diable (1846) and François le Champi (1847–48) and for her works for women's rights to independence
A sedimentary material consisting of small, often rounded grains or particles of disintegrated rock, smaller than granules and larger than silt. The diameter of the particles ranges from 0.0625 to 2 mm. Although sand often consists of quartz, it can consist of any other mineral or rock fragment as well. Coral sand, for example, consists of limestone fragments.