HOURGLASS

Meaning of HOURGLASS in English

n. a reversible device with two connected glass bulbs containing sand that takes an hour to pass from the upper to the lower bulb.

English main colloquial, spoken dictionary. Английский основной разговорный словарь. 2012

HOURGLASS — sand-horloge
English interlingue dictionary
HOURGLASS — I. noun Date: circa 1515 an instrument for measuring time consisting of a glass vessel having two compartments from the …
Толковый словарь английского языка - Merriam Webster
HOURGLASS — I. ˈ ̷ ̷ˌ ̷ ̷ noun Etymology: hour + glass 1. : an instrument for measuring time consisting of a glass vessel having …
Webster's New International English Dictionary
HOURGLASS — (n.) An instrument for measuring time, especially the interval of an hour. It consists of a glass vessel having two …
Английский словарь Webster
HOURGLASS — ( n. ) An instrument for measuring time, especially the interval of an hour. It consists of a glass vessel …
Webster's Revised Unabridged English Dictionary
HOURGLASS — /oweur"glas', -glahs', ow"euhr-/ , n. 1. an instrument for measuring time, consisting of two bulbs of glass joined by a …
Random House Webster's Unabridged English Dictionary
HOURGLASS — n. device for measuring time which consists of two glass bulbs joined by a narrow passage through which a quantity …
Толковый словарь английского языка - Редакция bed
HOURGLASS — I. ˈau̇(-ə)r-ˌglas noun Date: circa 1515 : an instrument for measuring time consisting of a glass vessel having two compartments …
Merriam-Webster's Collegiate English vocabulary
HOURGLASS — noun an instrument for measuring time, especially the interval of an hour. it consists of a glass vessel having two …
Webster English vocab
HOURGLASS — ■ noun an invertible device with two connected glass bulbs containing sand that takes an hour to pass from the …
Concise Oxford English vocab
HOURGLASS — [hour.glass] n (ca. 1515): an instrument for measuring time consisting of a glass vessel having two compartments from the uppermost …
Merriam-Webster English vocab
HOURGLASS — hourglass BrE AmE ˈa ʊ ‿ə ɡlɑːs § -ɡlæs AmE ˈaʊ‿ ə r ɡlæs ▷ hourglass|es ɪz əz
Longman Pronunciation English Dictionary
HOURGLASS — / ˈaʊəglɑːs; NAmE ˈaʊərglæs/ noun a glass container holding sand that takes exactly an hour to pass through a small …
Oxford Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
HOURGLASS — hour ‧ glass /ˈaʊəɡlɑːs $ ˈaʊrɡlæs/ BrE AmE noun [countable] 1 . a glass container for measuring time in which …
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
HOURGLASS — n. a reversible device with two connected glass bulbs containing sand that takes an hour to pass from the upper …
Concise Oxford English Dictionary
HOURGLASS — n. a reversible device with two connected glass bulbs containing sand that takes an hour to pass from the upper …
Oxford English vocab
HOURGLASS — also hour glass ( hourglasses) An hourglass is a device that was used to measure the passing of an hour. …
Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
HOURGLASS — also hour glass (~es) An ~ is a device that was used to measure the passing of an hour. It …
Collins COBUILD - Толковый словарь английского языка для изучающих язык
HOURGLASS — noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ I picture the evolution of human consciousness in the shape of an hourglass . ▪ …
Longman DOCE5 Extras English vocabulary
HOURGLASS — [noun] [C] - a glass container filled with sand that takes one hour to move from an upper to a …
Cambridge English vocab
HOURGLASS — Synonyms and related words : abbreviation, astriction, astringency, bottleneck, cervix, circumscription, coarctation, compactedness, compaction, compression, compressure, concentration, condensation, consolidation, constriction, …
Moby Thesaurus English vocabulary
HOURGLASS — adj.
Oxford Collocations Dictionary Second Edition
HOURGLASS — adj. Hourglass is used with these nouns: ↑ figure , ↑ shape
Oxford Collocations English Dictionary
HOURGLASS — n (sl) женщина с большой грудью и широкими бедрами
Dirty English-Russian vocab
HOURGLASS — песочные часы (обыкн. на один час) (морское) склянка в форме песочных часов, с тонкой средней частью - * waist тонкая …
Большой Англо-Русский словарь
HOURGLASS — Песочные часы
Американский Англо-Русский словарь
HOURGLASS — n 1. 1> песочны часы ( обыкн. на один час ) 2> мор. склянка 2. в грам. знач. прил. в …
Англо-Русско-Английский словарь общей лексики - Сборник из лучших словарей
HOURGLASS — песочные часы; склянка в форме песочных часов
Англо-Русский словарь Tiger
HOURGLASS — (n) песочные часы; склянка в форме песочных часов
English-Russian Lingvistica'98 dictionary
HOURGLASS — n 1. 1> песочны часы ( обыкн. на один час ) 2> мор. склянка 2. в грам. знач. прил. в …
Большой новый Англо-Русский словарь
HOURGLASS — n. Function: adjective Date: circa 1834 : shaped like an hourglass <an hourglass figure>
Merriam Webster Collegiate English Dictionary
HOURGLASS — n. Pronunciation: ' au ̇ (- ə )r- ˌ glas Function: noun Date: circa 1515 : an instrument for measuring …
Merriam Webster Collegiate English Dictionary
HOURGLASS — n 1. 1) песочные часы ( обыкн. на один час ) 2) мор. склянка 2. в грам. знач. прил. в …
Новый большой Англо-Русский словарь - Апресян, Медникова
HOURGLASS — песочные часы; склянка в форме песочных часов
Англо-Русский дополнительный словарь
HOURGLASS — Песочные часы
Британский Англо-Русский словарь
HOURGLASS — песочные часы (обыкн. на один час) (морское) склянка в форме песочных часов, с тонкой средней частью - * waist тонкая …
Новый большой Англо-Русский словарь

Английский основной разговорный словарь

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