hourglass
hourglass
Definition
hour·glass (o̵ur′glas′)
noun
an instrument for measuring time by the trickling of sand, mercury, water, etc. through a small opening from one glass bulb to another below it, in a fixed period of time, esp. one hour
hourglass
Usage Examples
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.
Browse dictionary entries near hourglass
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- hour angle
- hour after hour
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- houndstooth check
- hound's-tongue
- hound
- houri
- hourly
- Hours
- house
- house arrest
- house call
- house detective
- house music
- House of Burgesses
- house of cards
