Dirt vs. Sand
Difference Between Dirt and Sand
Dirt➦
Dirt is unclean matter, especially when in contact with a person's clothes, skin or possessions. In such case they are said to become dirty.
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Sand➦
Sand is a granular material composed of finely divided rock and mineral particles. Sand has various compositions but is defined by its grain size.
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Dirt➦
Earth or soil.
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Sand➦
Small loose grains of worn or disintegrated rock.
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Dirt➦
A filthy or soiling substance, such as mud or dust.
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Sand➦
(Geology) A sedimentary material, finer than a granule and coarser than silt, with grains between 0.06 and 2.0 millimeters in diameter.
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Dirt➦
Excrement.
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Sand➦
often sands A tract of land covered with sand, as a beach or desert.
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Dirt➦
A squalid or filthy condition.
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Sand➦
The loose, granular, gritty particles in an hourglass.
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Dirt➦
One that is mean, contemptible, or vile.
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Sand➦
sands Moments of allotted time or duration
"The sands are numb'red that makes up my life" (Shakespeare).
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Dirt➦
Obscene language or subject matter.
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Sand➦
(Slang) Courage; stamina; perseverance
"She had more sand in her than any girl I ever see.
in my opinion she was just full of sand" (Mark Twain).
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Dirt➦
Malicious or scandalous gossip.
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Sand➦
A light grayish brown to yellowish gray.
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Dirt➦
Information that embarrasses or accuses.
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Sand➦
To sprinkle or cover with or as if with sand.
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Dirt➦
Unethical behavior or practice; corruption.
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Sand➦
To polish or scrape with sand or sandpaper.
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Dirt➦
Material, such as gravel or slag, from which metal is extracted in mining.
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Sand➦
To mix with sand.
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Dirt➦
Soil or earth.
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Sand➦
To fill up (a harbor) with sand.
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Dirt➦
A stain or spot (on clothes etc); any foreign substance that worsens appearance.
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Sand➦
(uncountable) Rock that is ground more finely than gravel, but is not as fine as silt (more formally, see grain sizes chart), forming beaches and deserts and also used in construction.
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Dirt➦
Previously unknown facts, or the invented "facts", about a person.
The reporter uncovered the dirt on the businessman by going undercover.
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Sand➦
A beach or other expanse of sand.
The Canadian tar sands are a promising source of oil.
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Dirt➦
(figurative) Meanness; sordidness.
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Sand➦
Personal courage.
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Dirt➦
(mining) In placer mining, earth, gravel, etc., before washing.
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Sand➦
A particle from 62.5 microns to 2 mm in diameter, following the Wentworth scale.
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Dirt➦
freckles
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Sand➦
A light beige colour, like that of typical sand.
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Dirt➦
To make foul or filthy; soil; befoul; dirty
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Sand➦
A single grain of sand.
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Dirt➦
Any foul of filthy substance, as excrement, mud, dust, etc.; whatever, adhering to anything, renders it foul or unclean; earth; as, a wagonload of dirt.
Whose waters cast up mire and dirt.
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Sand➦
A moment or interval of time; the term or extent of one's life (referring to the sand in an hourglass).
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Dirt➦
Meanness; sordidness.
Honors . . . thrown away upon dirt and infamy.
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Sand➦
(colloquial) A sandpiper.
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Dirt➦
In placer mining, earth, gravel, etc., before washing.
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Sand➦
Of a light beige colour, like that of typical sand.
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Dirt➦
To make foul of filthy; to dirty.
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Sand➦
(transitive) To abrade the surface of (something) with sand or sandpaper in order to smooth or clean it.
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Dirt➦
the part of the earth's surface consisting of humus and disintegrated rock
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Sand➦
(transitive) To cover with sand.
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Dirt➦
the state of being covered with unclean things
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Sand➦
To blot ink using sand.
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Dirt➦
obscene terms for feces
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Sand➦
Fine particles of stone, esp. of siliceous stone, but not reduced to dust; comminuted stone in the form of loose grains, which are not coherent when wet.
That finer matter, called sand, is no other than very small pebbles.
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Dirt➦
disgraceful gossip about the private lives of other people
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Sand➦
A single particle of such stone.
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Dirt➦
(of roads) not leveled or drained; unsuitable for all year travel
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Sand➦
The sand in the hourglass; hence, a moment or interval of time; the term or extent of one's life.
The sands are numbered that make up my life.
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Sand➦
Tracts of land consisting of sand, like the deserts of Arabia and Africa; also, extensive tracts of sand exposed by the ebb of the tide.
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Sand➦
Courage; pluck; grit.
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Sand➦
To sprinkle or cover with sand.
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Sand➦
To drive upon the sand.
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Sand➦
To bury (oysters) beneath drifting sand or mud.
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Sand➦
To mix with sand for purposes of fraud; as, to sand sugar.
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Sand➦
a loose material consisting of grains of rock or coral
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Sand➦
French writer known for works concerning women's rights and independence (1804-1876)
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Sand➦
fortitude and determination;
he didn't have the guts to try it
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Sand➦
rub with sandpaper;
sandpaper the wooden surface
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