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SAND PIT

Specialty Definition: SAND PIT

DomainDefinition

Mining

An open deep excavation or shaft that has been dug for taking a mineral deposit from the ground or for quarrying stone. Source: European Union. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Image Slideshow: SAND PIT

Illustrations:
SAND PIT

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Photo Album: SAND PIT

ThumbnailDescription & Credit

Farmers who have been resettled at Skyline Farms, at work in sand pit. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

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Spoken Usage: SAND PIT

SpeakerPhrase(s)

Rush Limbaugh

If I were a citizen of a country that had been around thousands of years, and was still basically a sand pit, when I looked at America, I would want to come here, not to tear this country down.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: SAND PIT

Language Translations for "SAND PIT"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Finnish

  

hiekkalaatikko. (various references)

   

French

  

sablière (sand distributor, sander), carrière de sable. (various references)

   

German

  

Sandgrube (bunker, sand trap, sandbox, sandpit). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

homokozó (sand box, sand-box). (various references)

   

Italian

  

cava di sabbia. (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

遊び , . (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

すなば, すなあそび. (various references)

   

Manx

  

slogh geinnee. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

andsay itpay

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: SAND PIT

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: pandits, sandpit.

Words within the letters "a-d-i-n-p-s-t"

-1 letter: paints, pandit, patins, pintas, ptisan.

-2 letters: adits, antis, dints, ditas, inapt, nipas, padis, pains, paint, pants, patin, pians, pinas, pinta, pints, pitas, saint, sapid, satin, spait, staid, stain, stand, tains, tapis, tsadi.

-3 letters: adit, aids, ains, aits, ands, anis, anti, ants, dais, daps, dins, dint, dips, dipt, dita, dits, naps, nipa, nips, nits.

 Words containing the letters "a-d-i-n-p-s-t"
 

+1 letter: depaints, displant, pintadas, pintados, sandpits, satinpod.

 

+2 letters: adaptions, adoptions, antipodes, dipterans, displants, disputant, dystopian, pintadoes, satinpods, standpipe, supinated.

 

+3 letters: adsorption, antipodals, disappoint, discrepant, disparting, dispersant, displanted, disputants, handprints, mispainted, misplanted, pantsuited, patronised, pedantries, pedestrian, phantasied, planetoids, postdating, predations, printheads, stampeding, standpipes, standpoint, transpired, upstanding.

 

+4 letters: adaptations, adoptianism, adoptionism, adoptionist, adsorptions, anthropoids, antipodeans, constipated, cuspidation, depilations, deputations, despatching, desperation, disappoints, dispatching, dispersants, displanting, disputation, dissipating, dissipation, inaptitudes, inspissated, interpleads, interspaced, landscapist, misadapting, pathfinders, pedestaling, pedestrians, pentaploids, postlanding, predynastic, standpoints, staphylinid, stipendiary, transhipped, unaspirated.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Images: Slideshow
2. Images: Photo Album
3. Quotations: Spoken
4. Translations: Modern
5. Anagrams
6. Bibliography


  

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