sandbox
/ˈsæn(d).bɑks/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.02 in modern English
17
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A container for sand or pounce, used historically before blotting paper.
noun
An animal's litter box.
noun
A box carried on locomotives, from which sand runs onto the rails in front of the driving wheels, to prevent slipping.
noun
An isolated area where a program can be executed with a restricted portion of the resources available.
noun
A page on a wiki where users are free to experiment without destroying or damaging any legitimate content.
Example Sentences
- "Her children were playing in the sandbox."
- "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."
- "Running a program in a sandbox can prevent it from doing any damage to the system."
- "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."
- "Their team has been sandboxing some ideas recently."
Etymology
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈsæn(d).bɑks/
- British English: /ˈsænd.bɒks/
Usage
- Canadian usage
- American usage
- Slang
- Transitive verb
- Intransitive verb