Sand timers

hour·glass (our

)

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.

hourglass [ˈaʊəˌglɑːs]

1. (Miscellaneous Technologies / Horology) a device consisting of two transparent chambers linked by a narrow channel, containing a quantity of sand that takes a specified time to trickle to one chamber from the other

2. (modifier) well-proportioned with a small waist an hourglass figure

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Noun

hourglass - a sandglass that runs for sixty minutes

sandglass - timepiece in which the passage of time is indicated by the flow of sand from one transparent container to another through a narrow passage

Translations

hourglass [ˈaʊəglɑːs] N → reloj m de arena

hourglass hour glass [ˈaʊə^rglɑːs ˈaʊə^rglæs] n → sablier m
hourglass figure n
to have an hourglass figure → avoir des formes fpl généreuses
hour hand n → petite aiguille f

hourglass [ˈaʊəˌglɑːs] n → clessidra

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