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Contents
- 1 English
- 1.1 Alternative forms
- 1.2 Etymology
- 1.3 Pronunciation
- 1.4 Noun
- 1.4.1 Synonyms
- 1.4.2 Derived terms
- 1.4.3 Related terms
- 1.4.4 Descendants
- 1.4.5 Translations
- 1.5 Verb
- 1.5.1 Derived terms
English
Alternative forms
Etymology
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈsændbɒks/
- (General American) IPA(key): /ˈsændbɑks/
Audio (US): (file) - Hyphenation: sand‧box
Noun
sandbox (plural sandboxes)
English Wikipedia has an article on:
- (US) A children's play area consisting of a box filled with sand.
- A box filled with sand that is shaped to form a mould for metal casting.
- A container for sand or pounce, used historically before blotting paper.
- An animal's litter box.
- (rail transport) A box carried on locomotives, from which sand runs onto the rails in front of the driving wheels, to prevent slipping.
1941 August, “Notes and News: The Swiss South Eastern Railway”, in Railway Magazine, page 376:
For the most part they were small standard gauge 0-6-0 side tanks of the type illustrated, with long tapered chimneys and an unusual feature for the Continent in the shape of domeless boilers, the protuberance just behind the chimney being a sandbox.
- (computing) An isolated area where a program can be executed with a restricted portion of the resources available.
Running a program in a sandbox can prevent it from doing any damage to the system.
- (wiki jargon) A page on a wiki where users are free to experiment without destroying or damaging any legitimate content.
- (US, military, slang, usually "The Sandbox") The Middle East.
Synonyms
- (play enclosure with sand): sandpit (UK):
Derived terms
Related terms
- (rail transport) sand dome
Descendants
- → Chinese: 沙盒 (shāhé) (calque)
Translations
box with sand for children
- Amharic: please add this translation if you can
- Arabic: please add this translation if you can
- Armenian: ավազարկղ (avazarkġ)
- Bengali: বালুচর(bn) (balucor)
- Burmese: please add this translation if you can
- Catalan: sorrera(ca)f
- Chinese:
- Chuvash: хӑйӑр карти (hăjăr k̬art̬i)
- Czech: pískoviště(cs)n
- Danish: sandkasse(da)c
- Dutch: zandbak(nl)m
- Esperanto: sabloludejo, sablokesto
- Estonian: please add this translation if you can
- Finnish: hiekkalaatikko(fi)
- French: bac à sable(fr)m, carré de sable(fr)m
- Georgian: please add this translation if you can
- German: Sandkasten(de)m
- Greek: αμμοδόχος(el)f (ammodóchos)
- Gujarati: please add this translation if you can
- Hindi: please add this translation if you can
- Hungarian: hom*okozó(hu)
- Icelandic: sandkassi(is)m
- Ido: sabluyo(io)
- Indonesian: bak(id) pasir(id)
- Irish: poll gainimhm
- Italian: sabbionaia(it)f, sabbiera(it)f
- Japanese: 砂場(ja) (すなば, sunaba), 砂箱 (すなばこ, sunabako)
- Kazakh: құмсалғыш (qūmsalğyş)
- Khmer: ប្រអប់ខ្សាច់ (brâʼâbkhsach)
- Korean: 모래상자 (moraesangja)
- Kyrgyz: please add this translation if you can
- Lao: please add this translation if you can
- Latvian: smilšu kaste
- Lithuanian: smėlio dėžė(lt)
- Malay: please add this translation if you can
- Manx: kishtey geinneem
- Norwegian:
- Occitan: clòt de sablem
- Odia: please add this translation if you can
- Persian: please add this translation if you can
- Polish: piaskownica(pl)f
- Portuguese: caixa de areia(pt)f
- Romagnol: please add this translation if you can
- Romanian: groapă cu nisipf
- Russian: песо́чница(ru)f (pesóčnica)
- Scottish Gaelic: please add this translation if you can
- Slovak: pieskoviskon
- Slovene: peskovnik(sl)m
- Spanish: arenero(es)m, salvadera(es)
- Swedish: sandlåda(sv)c
- Tagalog: kahon ng(tl) buhangin(tl)
- Thai: กระบะทราย (grà-bà-saai)
- Ukrainian: пісо́чниця(uk)f (pisóčnycja)
- Vietnamese: hộp cát
- Welsh: pwll tywodm
- Yiddish: זאַמדקאַסטןm (zamdkastn)
box of sand for mould-making
- Finnish: muottikehys
container for sand or pounce, used for writing
animal's litter box — see litter box
rail transport: box from which sand runs onto the rails
- Catalan: sorrera(ca)f
- Finnish: hiekoitussäiliö
computing: isolated program execution area
- Danish: sandkasse(da)c
- Finnish: hiekkalaatikko(fi)
- German: Sandboxf
- Indonesian: bak pasir
- Italian: isolamento(it)m
- Korean: 샌드박스 (saendeubakseu)
- Polish: piaskownica(pl)f, obszar izolowanym
- Serbo-Croatian: testno okruženjen
- Spanish: zona de pruebasf
- Ukrainian: пісо́чниця(uk)f (pisóčnycja)
wiki sandbox
- Chinese:
- Czech: pískoviště(cs)
- Danish: sandkasse(da)c
- Dutch: zandbak(nl)m
- Finnish: hiekkalaatikko(fi)
- French: bac à sable(fr)m
- German: Spielwiese(de)f
- Greek: αμμοδοχείο(el)n (ammodocheío)
- Icelandic: sandkassi(is)m
- Irish: bosca gainimhm
- Japanese: サンドボックス (sando bokkusu)
- Korean: 연습장(ko) (yeonseupjang)
- Latin: arenariumn, harenariumn
- Polish: brudnopis(pl)m
- Portuguese: zona de testesf
- Romanian: cutie cu nisip
- Russian: песо́чница(ru)f (pesóčnica)
- Slovak: pieskoviskon
- Spanish: zona de pruebas
- Swedish: sandlåda(sv)c
- Turkish: deneme tahtası(tr)
- Ukrainian: пісо́чниця(uk)f (pisóčnycja)
- Welsh: pwll tywodm
military slang: the Middle East
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Verb
sandbox (third-person singular simple present sandboxes, present participle sandboxing, simple past and past participle sandboxed)
- (computing, transitive) To restrict (a program, etc.) by placing it in a sandbox.
2011, Richard Wagner, Building Facebook Applications For Dummies:
Although you can use standard JavaScript and AJAX in sandboxed iframe pages to your heart's content, the Facebook Platform places restrictions over the amount of scripting capabilities you can add to the more tightly integrated FBML pages.
- (by extension, transitive, intransitive) To brainstorm; to prototype.
Their team has been sandboxing some ideas recently.
Derived terms
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