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hourglass - definition and meaning
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Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun An instrument for measuring time, consisting of two glass chambers connected by a narrow neck and containing a quantity of sand, mercury, or another flowing substance that trickles from the upper chamber to the lower in a fixed amount of time, often one hour.
- adjective Shaped like an hourglass.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An instrument for measuring time, consisting of a glass vessel constricted to a narrow passage in the middle, through which a quantity of sand, or sometimes of mercury, runs from the upper part into the lower in exactly an hour.
- noun The time measured by an hour-glass; an hour.
- Having the form of an hour-glass.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun An instrument for measuring time, especially the interval of an hour. It consists of a glass vessel having two compartments, from the uppermost of which a quantity of sand, water, or mercury occupies an hour in running through a small aperture unto the lower.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
clock made of twoglass vessels connected with a narrow passage, with sand flowing through that passage.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a sandglass that runs for sixty minutes
Etymologies
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hour + glass
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Examples
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When the hourglass is turned with the upside down, it begins to mark the passing of another hour.
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QUOTE TO NOTE: I know the hourglass is running out.
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The hourglass is shaped like the number eight --- wide at the top and bottom, but very thin in the middle.
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QUOTE TO NOTE: I know the hourglass is running out.
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A second hourglass is found beside the lectern in the miniature studiolo, a particularly jocund play of temporal and spatial layering.
Architecture and Memory: The Renaissance Studioli of Federico da Montefeltro 2008
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If the Pistons find a way to sink the Lakers, the main reason will be that tough little customer wearing the glasses, a man whose coaching hourglass is nearly empty.
USATODAY.com - Pistons' Brown hopes moves on and off court pay off 2004
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“Now,” he continued with admiring eyes, “that is what you call an hourglass figure.
Flowers in the Attic V.C. Andrews 1979
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“Now,” he continued with admiring eyes, “that is what you call an hourglass figure.
Flowers in the Attic V.C. Andrews 1979
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The hourglass should be the "butternut squash" and the upside down triangle should be the Crystal Carrington because there are no top heavy fruits!
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-- A warning against delay in arrangements or thought-of plans; with other signs, the hourglass is a grave warning of peril through illness or accident.
Telling Fortunes By Tea Leaves Cicely Kent
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Words with the same meaning
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- astringency
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- cervix
- circumscription
- coarctation
- compactedness
- compaction
- compression
- compressure
- concentration
- condensation
- consolidation
- constriction
- constringency
- contraction
- contracture
- curtailment
- decrease
- diminuendo
- hourglass figure
- isthmus
- knitting
- narrow place
- narrowing
- neck
- puckering
- pursing
- reduction
- sandglass
- shortening
- solidification
- stranglement
- strangulation
- striction
- stricture
- systole
- wasp waist
- wrinkling
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