hourglass

Converse of object

• shape: She is pear-shaped, bottom heavy, I'm hourglass shaped.
• hold: The smaller inner ring holding the hourglass is peppered with holes in the shape of stars.
• set: The command set hourglass on enable the indicator, whilst set hourglass off prevents RasMol from changing the cursor.
• resemble: Meanwhile, the population pyramid in sub-Saharan Africa is beginning to resemble an hourglass.
• carry: He is usually depicted as an elderly bearded man, dressed in a robe, carrying an hourglass.
• turn: Driven insane, Ivan repeatedly turns the hourglass over and over again in a hope of delaying his death.

Adjective modifier

• phantom: The Legend of Zelda: Phantom Hourglass is controlled almost entirely by the stylus.
• giant: She helped them flip the giant hourglass to count down the ten minute voting time.
• little: It's that pesky little hourglass that pops-up whenever my PC grinds to a halt.

Modifies a noun

• pointer: The hourglass pointer can be used interchangeably with the watch pointer.
• shape: The contour lines of each saddle form half an hourglass shape.
• figure: Many admire my hourglass figure: my stats are 33, 23, 35.
• style: Then turn on your computer and wait until you see your desktop icons and the cursor is no longer an hourglass style.
• icon: It whistled it beeped, hourglass icons and lightning bolts flew across its tiny screen.
• pattern: Hourglass pattern of tan and gray on the flanks.