sandbox
Pronunciation Noun
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Pronunciation Noun
sandbox (plural sandboxes)
- (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) A box carried on locomotives, from which sand runs onto the rails in front of the driving wheels, to prevent slipping.
- (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.
- (Wiktionary and WMF 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.
- (play enclosure with sand) sandpit (UK)
- (rail transport) sand dome
- French: bac à sable, carré de sable
- German: Sandkasten, Sandkiste
- Italian: sabbionaia, sabbiera
- Portuguese: caixa de areia
- Russian: песо́чница
- Spanish: arenero, salvadera
- German: Sandbox
- French: bac à sable
- German: Spielwiese
- Portuguese: zona de testes
- Russian: песо́чница
sandbox (sandboxes, present participle sandboxing; past and past participle sandboxed)
- (computing, transitive) To restrict (a program, etc.) by placing it in a sandbox.
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