sandbox

See also: sand box and Sandbox

English

Alternative forms

• sand box

Etymology

From 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. (wiki 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

Descendants

• → Chinese: 沙盒 (shāhé) (calque)

Translations

box with sand for children

• Amharic: please add this translation if you can
• Arabic: صُنْدُوق رَمْل m (ṣundūq raml), صَنْدُوق رَمْل m (ṣandūq raml)
• Armenian: ավազարկղ (avazarkġ)
• Belarusian: пясо́чніца f (pjasóčnica)
• Bengali: বালুচর (bn) (balucor)
• 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
• 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 (id) pasir (id)
• Irish: poll 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: 모래상자 (moraesangja)
• Kyrgyz: please add this translation if you can
• Lao: please add this translation if you can
• Latvian: smilšu kaste
• Lithuanian: smėlio dėžė (lt)
• 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: clòt de sable m
• Odia: 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
• Tagalog: kahon ng (tl) buhangin (tl)
• Thai: กระบะทราย (grà-bà-saai)
• Ukrainian: пісо́чниця (uk) f (pisóčnycja)
• Vietnamese: hộp cát
• Welsh: pwll tywod m
• Yiddish: זאַמדקאַסטן m (zamdkastn)

box of sand for mould-making

• Finnish: muottikehys

container for sand or pounce, used for writing

• Catalan: sorrera (ca) f, polsera f
• Yiddish: זעמדער m (zemder)

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: 샌드박스 (saendeubakseu)
• Polish: piaskownica (pl) f, obszar izolowany m
• Serbo-Croatian: testno okruženje n
• Spanish: zona de pruebas f
• Ukrainian: пісо́чниця (uk) f (pisóčnycja)

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)
• Korean: 연습장 (ko) (yeonseupjang)
• 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)
• Ukrainian: пісо́чниця (uk) f (pisóčnycja)
• Welsh: pwll tywod m

military slang: the Middle East

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout § Translations.

Translations to be checked

• Dutch: ^{(please verify)} zandbak (nl) m (1,2)
• 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:

     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.

2. (by extension, transitive, intransitive) To brainstorm; to prototype.

   Their team has been sandboxing some ideas recently.

Derived terms

• unsandboxed