hourglass
20
4.1
- noun
- /ˈaʊərˌɡlæs/
:
reloj de arena
- In the corner of the library stood an antique hourglass, its sand slowly trickling down.
- hourglass shape
- hourglass drum
You see this here? Here's a an hourglass, the sand in the glass.
- You see this here? Here's a an hourglass, the sand in the glass.
Examples
-
The hourglass is almost empty!
-
The sand in the hourglass is dropping quickly for all of us.
-
Your time starts when you flip the hourglass, which they have.
-
The sand was really running out of that hourglass.
-
He gave her an hourglass as a gift.
-
I was just admiring your hourglass.
-
On my shelf are the hourglass, half-hourglass, ten-minute, and minuteglass.
Fiction book (2002) -
She used an hourglass to limit the time for each participant's turn.
-
The teacher explained how the hourglass measures time as the sand flows from one bulb to the other.
Synonyms
1
8.1
A glass device with two bulbs where sand flows to measure time
Compounds
How Accurate
- Specialized
5
4.3
- Specialized
5
8.6
1
4.2
4
1.0
20
4.1
11
4.9
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Hourglass is made from two simple words, hour (a time of '60 minutes') and glass. It is a glass device where sand runs from the top to the bottom to measure an hour, so the name literally says what it does.