sandpit

«sandpit» in Mova's school dictionary: a low box or shallow hole filled with sand for children… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 2 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun (a sandpit, sandpits)

meaning for a pupil

1) A sandpit is a low box or shallow hole filled with sand for children to play in. tree →

2) In sports, the sand area for landing in the long jump. tree →

sense in the lessons

Used in everyday life and school playgrounds: digging, building sandcastles, playing with buckets. In PE: athletes land in the sandpit in the long jump. Hygiene: wash your hands after playing in the sandpit and cover it so animals do not use it.

examples

• The little ones are playing in the sandpit. tree →
• Cover the sandpit so cats don't get in. tree →
• She landed in the sandpit after her long jump. tree →
• We built a castle in the sandpit. tree →
• Wash your hands after the sandpit. tree →
• Don't throw sand in the sandpit. tree →

note

UK, Australia, NZ word; in the USA and Canada it is a "sandbox". Countable. Compound: sand + pit.

In the corpora

• Think of pouring a bucket of water on a sandpit: little channels join into bigger ones and run downhill to one place.
• A square sandpit with a side of 3 metres needs 3 × 4 = 12 metres of fence to go all around it.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «sandpit» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.