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Definitions: Sandpaper |
SandpaperNoun1. Stiff paper coated with powdered emery or sand. Verb1. Rub with sandpaper; "sandpaper the wooden surface". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "sandpaper" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1851. (references) |
Synonyms: SandpaperSynonyms: emery paper (n), sand (v). (additional references) |
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| Play | Caption |
 | Scratching sandpaper on wood. |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Title | Author | Quote |
Walden | Thoreau, Henry David | Many years since I used to go there to collect the sand by cartloads, to make sandpaper with, and I have continued to visit it ever since. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| "Sandpaper" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 92.59% of the time. "Sandpaper" is used about 54 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 92.59% | 50 | 48,117 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 5.56% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 1.85% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 54 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "sandpaper": sandpaper down. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "sandpaper": sandpaper-like. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
sandpaper | 146 |
liquid sandpaper | 17 |
3m sandpaper | 15 |
norton sandpaper | 13 |
sandpaper wood working | 11 |
sandpaper velcro | 9 |
belt sandpaper | 4 |
lbi sandpaper | 4 |
mirka sandpaper | 3 |
wet dry sandpaper | 3 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "sandpaper"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | zumpara (emery), letër zmerile (emery paper). (various references) | |
Arabic | ورق سنفرة, ورق زجاج. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | шкуркам (sand, sand down), шкурка, гласпапир (emery paper, flint-paper, glass paper). (various references) | |
Chinese | 沙纸. (various references) | |
Danish | sandpapir-galdeblære (sandpaper gallbladder), at slibe med sandpapir (to sandpaper). (various references) | |
Dutch | schuren (abrade, flatting, fraying, polish, rub, rubbing, sand, sanding, smoothing, to sandpaper). (various references) | |
Farsi | کاغذسنباده زدن به , کاغذسنباده . (various references) | |
Finnish | hioa (abrade, cut, grind, rub, sand, sharpen, to hone, to sandpaper, to sharpen, to whet, whet). (various references) | |
French | papier de verre. (various references) | |
German | sandpapier. (various references) | |
Greek | γυαλόχαρτο (glasspaper), γυαλίζω (burnish, glitter, planish, polish, polish 1, polish off, rub up, shine). (various references) | |
Hebrew | יר זכוכית. (various references) | |
Hungarian | smirgli (emery cloth, emery paper), dörzspapír (abrasive paper, emery paper). (various references) | |
Indonesian | mengamplasi (scour), mengamplas, amril (emery board or paper), amplas (fig tree). (various references) | |
Italian | carta vetrata. (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | "磨紙 , サンドイッチ構 (samba, sampler, sampling, San Francisco, San Jose, sand bath, sand buggy, sand skiing, sand wedge, sandbag, sandwich structure, Sanforized, sun visor, sunbeam, sunburn). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | サンドペーパー , け"まし. (various references) | |
Korean | 사포. (various references) | |
Manx | pabyr geinnee. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | andpapersay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | papel de lixa, lixa de vidraceiro, lixa (emery wheel). (various references) | |
Russian | шкурка (emery-cloth, glass-paper), наждачная бумага (abrasive, emery paper, emery-paper, flint-paper, glass paper, glass-paper, sandpapers). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | šmirgla (emery, emery paper). (various references) | |
Spanish | papel de lija (emery paper, glass paper), lijar (honing, rub, sand). (various references) | |
Swedish | sandpapper. (various references) | |
Turkish | zımparalamak (grind, paper, rub, rub with emery), zımpara kâğıdı (emery paper, glass paper), zımpara (carborundum, emery, glass cloth, rubber). (various references) | |
Ukranian | шліфувати наждаком, наждак (emery, flintpaper). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | giấy ráp (emery-paper), giấy nhám (emery-paper, glass-paper). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "sandpaper": sandpapered, sandpapering, sandpapers, sandpapery. (additional references) | |
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"Sandpaper" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: handtapper. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "sandpaper" (pronounced sa"ndpā'per) |
| 4 | -p ā' p er | flypaper, newspaper, wallpaper, wastepaper. |
| 3 | -ā' p er | landscaper, skyscraper. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-d-e-n-p-p-r-s" | |
-2 letters: appears, appends, nappers, panders, parades, snapped, snapper. | |
-3 letters: anears, apneas, appear, append, arenas, arpens, dapper, denars, drapes, napped, napper, nappes, padres, paeans, paesan, pandas, pander, papers, parade, parsed, rapped, rappen, rasped, redans, repand, sander, sapped, sapper, sarape, snared, spader, spared, spread. | |
-4 letters: anear, ansae, apers, apnea, apres, areas, arena, arpen, aspen, asper, dares, darns, deans, dears, denar, drape, earns, nadas, napes, nappe, nards, nares, neaps, nears, nerds, padre, paean, panda, paned, panes, papas, paper, parae, paras, pards, pared, pares, parse, peans, pears, pends, perps, prase, preps, presa, rands, raped, rapes, rased, reads, reaps, redan, rends, repps, saned, saner, saran, sedan, snare, sneap, spade, spaed, spare, spean, spear, spend. | |
-5 letters: anas, ands, anes, ansa, aped, aper, apes, apse, area, ares, arse, asea, daps, dare, darn, dean, dear, dens, earn, ears, ends, eras, erns, nada, nape, naps, nard, neap, near, nerd, pads, pane, pans, papa, paps, para, pard, pare, pars, pase, pean, pear, peas, peds, pend, pens, peps, perp, prep, rads, rand, rape, raps, rase, rasp, read, reap, reds, rend, repp, reps, sade, sand, sane, sard, sear, send, sera, snap, sned, spae, span, spar, sped. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-d-e-n-p-p-r-s" | |
+1 letter: sandpapers, sandpapery. | |
+2 letters: sandpapered. | |
+3 letters: disappearing, handicappers, sandpapering. | |
+4 letters: disappearance, propagandizes. | |
+5 letters: disappearances, preadaptations, propagandizers. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)53 61 6E 64 70 61 70 65 72 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)... .- -. -.. .--. .- .--. . .-. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010011 01100001 01101110 01100100 01110000 01100001 01110000 01100101 01110010 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)S a n d p a p e r |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0053 0061 006E 0064 0070 0061 0070 0065 0072 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)536780708267827184 |
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