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Hourglass

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

n. 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.

adj. Shaped like an hourglass: an hourglass design; an hourglass figure.

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

n. A clock made of two glass vessels connected with a narrow passage, with sand flowing through that passage.

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

n. 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.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

n. 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.

n. The time measured by an hour-glass; an hour.

Having the form of an hour-glass.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

n. a sandglass that runs for sixty minutes

Word Usage

"QUOTE TO NOTE: I know the hourglass is running out."

Hypernym

Words that are more generic or abstract

sandglass

Cross Reference

hour-glass contraction

Hyponym

egg-timer egg timer

Form

hourglassed hourglass figure hourglassing

Synonym

Words with the same meaning

sandglass

Same Context

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