Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A low box filled with sand for children to play in.
- n. A litter box, especially for a cat.
Wiktionary
- n. US A children's play area consisting of a box filled with sand.
- n. A box filled with sand that is shaped to form a mould for metal casting.
- n. computing An isolated area where a program can be executed with a restricted portion of the resources available.
- n. Wiktionary and WMF jargon A page on a wiki where users are free to experiment without destroying or damaging any legitimate content.
- v. computing, transitive To restrict (a program, etc.) by placing it in a sandbox.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a plaything consisting of a pile of sand or a box filled with sand for children to play in
- n. mold consisting of a box with sand shaped to mold metal
Etymologies
- sand + box. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“That corner of the sandbox is already occupied, and art tends to dislike the sandbox-bully of religion for its own reasons.”
“Not a surprise, really – the only decent news on radio in the sandbox is the BBC World Service.”
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“The sandbox is one in which you have to agree to disagree I guess.”
“The phrase "playing in someone else's sandbox" is not so much about the sand but about the * toys.”
“In January, the simmering feud between O'Neal and Bryant was taken public, prompting coach Phil Jackson to call it "sandbox stuff," and”
“We started out as a consultancy to help artists that were kicked out of the major-label sandbox, but could still sell 20,000 or 50,000 units - could earn a living from that," Macias says.”
“This will not change unless business users are given and encouraged to use a business process "sandbox" - a safe place in which to build their skills and test their ideas about which process needs more or less agility, where the flex point should be, what the effects are of one change versus another, how change affects process performance and process partners, and more.”
“To make sure that doesn't happen, scientists are experimenting in a "sandbox" -- a simulated Martian surface at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California.”
“But think about that) and crying that other people are playing in your sandbox is dangerously close to telling readers that they shouldn't like what they like and you know better about what they do or should enjoy than they do.”
“You’re amazing – and your advice on how to make a sandbox is just what I needed.”
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Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘sandbox’.
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WF - nominal compounds (concrete)
foodstuff, banknote, crankshaft, earphone, fibreboard, fishplate, forklift, glassware, guardrail, handicraft, headband, kitchenware and 181 more...
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Sand
A nitty-gritty list for words containing sand-, -sand-, or -sand; and apropos terms and phrases. Your contributions are welcome.
sand-blast, sand-jet, greensand, sandpaper, sandlot, sandstorm, sandbar, sandbag, sandwich, sandwort, Cassandra, sandhog and 218 more...
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Beautiful Compound Words
aftermath, afterthought, butterfly, campfire, colorblind, backhand, crossword, cupcake, dollhouse, drawbridge, dreadlock, dreamscape and 73 more...
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Spellings
sandbox, hypocrisy, medicine, torture, succinct, Martyr, hypocrite =saying..., on-cue as if plan..., egregious, smitten by god, revel =Get great ..., disingenuous and 1 more...
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X Marks the Spot
Words ending in "x" (except proper nouns and trademarks)
ax, ex, ox, soapbox, smallpox, six, sex, sax, rex, pressbox, climax, chickenpox and 208 more...
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Playground Completed Despite Rain - S...
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http://www.cdlponline.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=activity1&t...despite, slide, sandbox, organizer, material, extremely, project, ruined, tunnels, rebuilt, built, completed and 2 more...
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When You Gotta Go, You Gotta Go
Names for the place where you do your business.
privy, toilet, latrine, baño, bathroom, restroom, outhouse, john, throne room, ladies' room, lavatory, potty and 26 more...
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Box It Up
abox, bandbox, beatbox, boxboard, boxcar, boxful, boxlike, boxy, breadbox, cashbox, chatterbox, firebox and 30 more...
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Verb-ified nouns
Tweets
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ruzuzu The polka band I saw at Czech Days last Friday took a lot of breaks. At one point I heard the bandleader say, "Okay, folks, I've gotta drink a glass of milk, have some pivo, and then hit the sandbox." Aug 12, 2010