| 单词 | singing sand |
| 释义 | > as lemmassinging sand singing sand n. Desert or beach sand that emits a singing, whistling, humming, or other continuous sound when disturbed. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > structure of the earth > constituent materials > stone > stony material > [noun] > sand > types of sea-sandc1220 black sand1536 gold sand1578 quicksand1641 iron sand1681 crag1735 Bude sand1808 musical sand1858 sounding sand1884 singing sand1897 squeaking sand1966 1884 Proc. 32nd Meeting Amer. Assoc. Advancem. Sci. 251 (heading) The singing beach of Manchester, Mass.] 1897 M. Kingsley Trav. W. Afr. 175 A patch of singing sand under my feet. 1930 J. R. Partington Text-bk. Inorg. Chem. 725 ‘Singing sand’, which emits a peculiar squeaking note when pressed, consists of rounded grains of nearly uniform size. It occurs..in various localities. 1941 R. A. Bagnold Physics of Blown Sand & Desert Dunes xvii. 251 I have found singing sand on the slip~faces of both seif and barchan dunes and of drifts formed under the shelter of cliffs. 1970 R. Johnston Black Camels viii. 133 The night-long background music of the dunes was silenced. They were through the singing sands. < as lemmas |
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