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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
sandbox
noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ The cat used the infield like a sandbox.
▪ The models range from architectural and topographical contour constructions to precise, measured and scaled experiments with steel in a large sandbox.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
sandbox

also sand-box, 1570s as an instrument to sprinkle sand, from sand (n.) + box (n.1). From 1680s as "a box holding sand;" 1891 as a low-sided sand pit for children's play.

Wiktionary
sandbox

n. 1 (context US English) 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 A box carried on locomotives, from which sand runs on the rails in front of the driving wheel, to prevent slipping. 5 (context computing English) An isolated area where a program can be executed with a restricted portion of the resources available. 6 (context Wiktionary and WMF jargon English) A page on a wiki where users are free to experiment without destroying or damaging any legitimate content. 7 (context US military English) (usu. ''The Sandbox'') The Middle East. vb. (context computing transitive English) To restrict (a program, etc.) by placing it in a sandbox.

WordNet
sandbox
  1. n. mold consisting of a box with sand shaped to mold metal

  2. plaything consisting of a pile of sand or a box filled with sand for children to play in [syn: sandpile]

Wikipedia
Sandbox (computer security)

In computer security, a sandbox is a security mechanism for separating running programs. It is often used to execute untested or untrusted programs or code, possibly from unverified or untrusted third parties, suppliers, users or websites, without risking harm to the host machine or operating system. A sandbox typically provides a tightly controlled set of resources for guest programs to run in, such as scratch space on disk and memory. Network access, the ability to inspect the host system or read from input devices are usually disallowed or heavily restricted.

In the sense of providing a highly controlled environment, sandboxes may be seen as a specific example of virtualization. Sandboxing is frequently used to test unverified programs that may contain a virus or other malicious code, without allowing the software to harm the host device.

Sandbox

Sandbox may refer to:

  • Sandpit or sandbox, a wide, shallow playground construction to hold sand, often made of wood or plastic
Sandbox (band)

Sandbox were a Canadian alternative rock band formed in 1993 in New Glasgow, Nova Scotia. The band consisted of Paul Murray, nephew of singer Anne Murray on lead vocals, Mike Smith and Jason Archibald on guitar, Scott MacFarlane on bass and Troy Shanks on drums. Smith would later go on to gain international recognition as a cast member of Trailer Park Boys.

Sandbox (locomotive)

A sandbox is a container on most locomotives, multiple units and trams that holds sand, which is dropped on the rail in front of the driving wheels in wet and slippery conditions and on steep grades in order to improve traction.

Sandbox (album)

Sandbox is the second album by Guided by Voices. It was released in 1987.

Sandbox (software development)

A sandbox is a testing environment that isolates untested code changes and outright experimentation from the production environment or repository, in the context of software development including Web development and revision control. Sandboxing protects "live" servers and their data, vetted source code distributions, and other collections of code, data and/or content, proprietary or public, from changes that could be damaging (regardless of the intent of the author of those changes) to a mission-critical system or which could simply be difficult to revert. Sandboxes replicate at least the minimal functionality needed to accurately test the programs or other code under development (e.g. usage of the same environment variables as, or access to an identical database to that used by, the stable prior implementation intended to be modified; there are many other possibilities, as the specific functionality needs vary widely with the nature of the code and the application[s] for which it is intended). The concept of the sandbox (sometimes also called a working directory, a test server or development server) is typically built into revision control software such as CVS and Subversion (SVN), in which developers "check out" a copy of the source code tree, or a branch thereof, to examine and work on. Only after the developer has (hopefully) fully tested the code changes in their own sandbox should the changes be checked back into and merged with the repository and thereby made available to other developers or end users of the software.

By further analogy, the term "sandbox" can also be applied in computing and networking to other temporary or indefinite isolation areas, such as security sandboxes and search engine sandboxes (both of which have highly specific meanings), that prevent incoming data from affecting a "live" system (or aspects thereof) unless/until defined requirements or criteria have been met.

Sandbox (Michael Houser album)

Sandbox is the second studio album by Widespread Panic Lead Guitarist Michael Houser.

Released posthumously in 2006, 'Sandbox' is a collection of Houser originals Recorded at John Keane's Athens, GA studio in August 2002, shortly before his death from pancreatic cancer. In contrast to Door Harp, the tracks are mostly full-band rockers, several of which had been played by Widespread Panic in the past. Also unlike Door Harp, the songs are all accompanied by Houser's low-key vocals.

Most instruments are played by Houser and Keane, with the Widespread Panic percussion section of Todd Nance and Domingo S. Ortiz providing drums and percussion. Lyrically, some of the new songs on the album share the theme of saying goodbye (Goodbye My Love,No Cryin' Now).

A two-song bonus CD with outtakes was included with the original release in 2006.

Usage examples of "sandbox".

His towering form strode over Ilium and walked across the miles between here and the shore like Astyanax playing in his sandbox, striding over his toy soldiers.

Their backyards were filled with sandboxes, swing sets and huge old maples perfect for tree houses and hammocks.

Like how the characters from The Regulators, both good and bad, have always gotten along with the MotoKops in Seth's sandbox play-fantasies.

Mostly he just sits plonked down out there in the sandbox Herb put in as soon as we got back from Toledo, like a big boy-shaped raisin, wearing only his MotoKops 2200 Underoos (he has the lunchbox, too), mouthing his nonsense words, playing with his vans and the action figures that go with them, especially the sexy redhead in the blue shorts.

Power Wagons lined up in the sandbox, slant-parked the way he always puts them when he's done for a while, the Ponderosa all neat with the plastic horses in their corral, the HQ Crisis Center down near the swing .

He had managed to argue that to various people who, despite the unit being decertified for combat operations after two previous trips to the sandbox, had kept him from being relieved and forcibly retired.

Nearby was a trio of plainclothes officers of the Baltimore City Police, who exchanged credentials with the USSS to confirm identity, and so another day started for SURGEON and SANDBOX.

The high-backed chair with arms at the far end was obviously me First Lord's, and the pile of paper, quill, silver paper-knife, inkwell and sandbox in front of it indicated he probably used the Board Room as his own office.

There was a huge tub big enough for Sesame to curl up in so she could sleep in water after all, and a lovely sandbox for Sammy.

A Marine crewman in a green flight suit pulled the door open and stepped out, which allowed the agents on the helicopter to carry SANDBOX off and hand her off to her father.

It's an old saying for those in my line of work that you don't befoul your own sandbox.

I also see lots of children here on the swings and seesaws, or playing here in the sandbox.

Furrows spit out rabbits, partridges flush, nature without scale, no more sandbox but horizons, smells you could spread on bread, slowly drying sunsets, boneless dawns, now and then a wrecked tank, romantic against the five-o'clock-in-the-morning sky, moon and dog, dog eats moon, dog close-up, evaporating dog, dog project, dog deserter, get-out-of-here dog, count-me-out dog, dog-thrownness, genealogicals: And Perkun sired Senta.

I looked around Susan's backyard and saw a swing set, a sandbox, and a tricycle.

A small square of closely cropped grass, a few red oaks with crispy leaves clinging to naked branches, a rusty swing set, a pair of weathered teeter-totters, and a sandbox used more by neighborhood cats than children.