sandbox

sandbox

See also: sand box and Sandbox

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English

Etymology

sand +‎ box.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈsændbɒks/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈsændbɑks/

• Audio (US)

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• Hyphenation: sand‧box

Noun

sandbox (plural sandboxes)

1. (US) A children's play area consisting of a box filled with sand.
2. A box filled with sand that is shaped to form a mould for metal casting.
3. A container for sand or pounce, used historically before blotting paper.
4. An animal's litter box.
5. (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.

6. (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.

7. (Wikimedia jargon) A page on a wiki where users are free to experiment without destroying or damaging any legitimate content.
8. (US, military, slang, usually "The Sandbox") The Middle East.

Synonyms

• (play enclosure with sand): sandpit (UK):

Derived terms

• sandbox game
• sandbox tree

Related terms

• (rail transport) sand dome

Translations

box with sand for children

Amharic: please add this translation if you can Arabic: please add this translation if you can Armenian: ավազարկղ (avazarkł) Bengali: বালুচর (balucôrô) Burmese: please add this translation if you can Catalan: sorrera (ca) f Chinese: Mandarin: 砂箱 (zh) (shāxiāng) 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, Sandkiste (de) f Greek: αμμοδόχος (el) f (ammodóchos) Gujarati: please add this translation if you can Hindi: please add this translation if you can Hungarian: homokozó (hu) Icelandic: sandkassi (is) m Ido: sabluyo (io) Indonesian: bak pasir Irish: bosca gainimh m 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: 사장(砂場) (ko) (sajang) Kyrgyz: please add this translation if you can Lao: please add this translation if you can Latvian: please add this translation if you can Lithuanian: please add this translation if you can Malay: please add this translation if you can Manx: kishtey geinnee m Norwegian: Bokmål: sandkasse (no) m or f Nynorsk: sandkasse m or f Occitan: please add this translation if you can Oriya: 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 nisip f Russian: песо́чница (ru) f (pesóčnica) Scottish Gaelic: please add this translation if you can Slovak: pieskovisko n Slovene: peskovnik (sl) m Spanish: arenero (es) m, salvadera (es) Swedish: sandlåda (sv) c Tajik: please add this translation if you can Thai: กระบะทราย (grà-bà-saai) Vietnamese: please add this translation if you can Welsh: pwll tywod m Yiddish: please add this translation if you can

box of sand for mould-making

Finnish: muottikehys

container for sand or pounce, used for writing

Catalan: sorrera (ca) f, polsera f

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: Sandbox f Indonesian: bak pasir Italian: isolamento (it) m Korean: 연습장 (ko) (yeonseupjang), 샌드박스 (saendeubakseu) Polish: piaskownica (pl) f, obszar izolowany m Serbo-Croatian: testno okruženje n Spanish: zona de pruebas f

wiki sandbox

Chinese: Mandarin: 沙盒 (zh) (shāhé) 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 gainimh m Japanese: サンドボックス (sando bokkusu) Latin: arenarium n, harenarium n Polish: brudnopis (pl) m Portuguese: zona de testes f Romanian: cutie cu nisip Russian: песо́чница (ru) f (pesóčnica) Slovak: pieskovisko n Spanish: zona de pruebas Swedish: sandlåda (sv) c Turkish: deneme tahtası (tr) Welsh: pwll tywod m

military slang: the Middle East

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Dutch: (please verify) zandbak (nl) m (1,2) Korean: (please verify) 모래상자 (moraesangja) Luxembourgish: (please verify) Sandkaul Mandarin: (please verify) 沙盒 (zh) (shāhé) Norwegian: (please verify) sandkasse (no) m Spanish: (please verify) arenero (es) m (1)

Verb

sandbox (third-person singular simple present sandboxes, present participle sandboxing, simple past and past participle sandboxed)

1. (computing, transitive) To restrict (a program, etc.) by placing it in a sandbox.
   • 2011, Richard Wagner, Building Facebook Applications For Dummies:

Derived terms

• unsandboxed