Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun Heavy paper coated on one side with sand or other abrasive material and used for smoothing surfaces.
  • transitive verb To rub with or as if with sandpaper.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • To rub, smooth, or polish with sandpaper.
  • Hence, figuratively To make smooth or even; polish, as a literary composition.
  • noun Stout paper coated with hot glue and then sprinkled with sharp sand of different degrees of fineness.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • transitive verb To smooth or polish with sandpaper.
  • noun Paper covered on one side with sand glued fast, -- used for smoothing and polishing.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun a strong paper coated with sand or other abrasive material for smoothing and polishing.
  • noun a sheet of such paper
  • verb transitive To polish or grind (a surface) with or as if with sandpaper.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun stiff paper coated with powdered emery or sand
  • verb rub with sandpaper

Etymologies

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sand +‎ paper

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Examples

  • I had to use very fine grain sandpaper to get rid of one big scratch, but now the whole screen is hazy.

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  • Something a lot more important is that I finally cut off my goatee, tears were shed and stories told then WHAM! after seven months of growth my manly mug was as smooth as a babies butt with fine grain sandpaper stuck to it.

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  • Something a lot more important is that I finally cut off my goatee, tears were shed and stories told then WHAM! after seven months of growth my manly mug was as smooth as a babies butt with fine grain sandpaper stuck to it.

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  • Cards upon which the single letters of the alphabet are mounted in sandpaper; larger cards containing groups of the same letters.

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  • At this point, if the child already knows how to write, we may present the figures cut in sandpaper and mounted upon cards.

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  • In addition to these alphabets we have a set of the capital letters mounted in sandpaper upon cardboard, and another, in which they are cut from cardboard.

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  • Contemporaneously the child is taught to recognise and touch some of the letters of the alphabet made in sandpaper.

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  • Glued to the sandpaper is a tiny cutout image of a woman's shoe.

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  • Mr. Culler says he hopes the Cubitron II technology will eventually be applied to the kind of sandpaper people use at home.

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  • Finishing materials such as sandpaper, shellac, varnish, paint, and thinner may also be needed.

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