hourglass
沙漏,滴漏,滴漏计时器
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Definitions
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- : an instrument for measuring time, consisting of two bulbs of glass joined by a narrow passage through which a quantity of sand or mercury runs in just an hour.
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- : having a notably slim or narrow waist, midsection, or joining segment: She has an hourglass figure.
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Examples
Yet the feeling that time is slipping away, that the sand in the hourglass is falling fast, will induce existential angst in the best of us.
More sidecut—which gives a ski that hourglass shape—allows a pair to penetrate deeper in its tracks and shortens the turn radius, heightening those sweet, sweet G’s.
In the team’s laser, light bounces between mirrors positioned at either end of an hourglass-shaped cavity before exiting the device.
But there are two aspects that raise Hourglass above mere Ulysses imitation.
One of these collaborations includes a lilac hourglass-shaped Tadashi gown in which Spencer collected her very first Golden Globe.
There were bold minidresses with molded bodices that exaggerated an hourglass figure.
Sometimes his leather jackets were sporty and rakish, at others they were sculpted into prim, hourglass shapes.
The catillus (E) itself was shaped something like an hourglass, or two funnels joined at the neck.
At the sound the bearded old man raises his sceptre, opens his mouth, and turns an hourglass.
The sands did not then run so swiftly through the hourglass; if the voyage to England was long, why, so was life!
One and all worshiped somewhat languidly, with frequent glances at the hourglass upon the pulpit.
Sometimes it will be nearly globular, again long and thin, or it may be constricted like an hourglass.