HOURGLASS

Meaning of HOURGLASS in English

Function: adjective

Date: circa 1834

: shaped like an hourglass <an hourglass figure>

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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 …
Английский основной разговорный словарь
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. 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

Merriam Webster Collegiate English Dictionary

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