Definitions for hourglass
ˈaʊərˌglæs, -ˌglɑs, ˈaʊ ər-hour·glass

Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. hourglassnoun

   a sandglass that runs for sixty minutes

WiktionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. hourglassnoun

   A clock made of two glass vessels connected with a narrow passage, with sand flowing through that passage.

Samuel Johnson's DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Hourglassnoun

   Etymology: hour and glass.

   1. A glass filled with sand, which, running through a narrow hole, marks the time.

   Next morning, known to be a morning better by the hourglass than by the day’s clearness. Philip Sidney.

   If a man be in sickness, the time will seem longer without a clock or hourglass than with it; for the mind doth value every moment. Francis Bacon.

   O, recollect your thoughts!
   Shake not his hourglass, when his hasty sand
   Is ebbing to the last. John Dryden, Spanish Fryar.

   2. Space of time. A manner of speaking rather affected than elegant.

   We, within the hourglass of two months, have won one town, and overthrown great forces in the field. Francis Bacon.

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1. Hourglass

   An hourglass (or sandglass, sand timer, sand clock or egg timer) is a device used to measure the passage of time. It comprises two glass bulbs connected vertically by a narrow neck that allows a regulated flow of a substance (historically sand) from the upper bulb to the lower one. Typically, the upper and lower bulbs are symmetric so that the hourglass will measure the same duration regardless of orientation. The specific duration of time a given hourglass measures is determined by factors including the quantity and coarseness of the particulate matter, the bulb size, and the neck width. Depictions of an hourglass as a symbol of the passage of time are found in art, especially on tombstones or other monuments, from antiquity to the present day. The form of a winged hourglass has been used as a literal depiction of the well-known idiom "time flies".

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1. hourglass

   An hourglass is a device that is used to measure the passage of time. It consists of two glass bulbs connected vertically by a narrow neck, allowing a regulated trickle of material, traditionally sand or another fine substance, from the upper bulb to the lower one. The time it takes for all the material to pass from the upper to the lower bulb represents a certain predefined time period, usually an hour, hence the name "hourglass". This device is often used as a symbol for the passage of time.

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1. Hourglassnoun

   an instrument for measuring time, especially the interval of an hour. It consists of a glass vessel having two compartments, from the uppermost of which a quantity of sand, water, or mercury occupies an hour in running through a small aperture unto the lower

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1. Hourglass

   An hourglass measures the passage of a few minutes or an hour of time. It has two connected vertical glass bulbs allowing a regulated trickle of material from the top to the bottom. Once the top bulb is empty, it can be inverted to begin timing again. The name hourglass comes from historically common hour timing. Factors affecting the time measured include the amount of sand, the bulb size, the neck width, and the sand quality. Alternatives to sand are powdered eggshell and powdered marble. In modern times, hourglasses are ornamental, or used when an approximate measure suffices, as in egg timers for cooking or for board games.

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of hourglass in Chaldean Numerology is: 6

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of hourglass in Pythagorean Numerology is: 3

Examples of hourglass in a Sentence

1. Scott Walker:

   Politics has a musical chairs component to it, you have the hourglass of sand and at the end of the day, there's only one seat.

2. Jean Paul:

   The more sand that has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.

3. Harney County Sheriff Dave Ward:

   We can't get things to normal until we unite as a community and ask these folks to go home so we can start working together, the fact is there is there is an hourglass, and it's running. And time is going to run out.

4. Robin Green:

   You think a man is a man cause he wears team colors and guzzles beer in front of the tube Can't you see, boys, the sands of time are dribbling through the hourglass

5. Soren Kierkegaard, "The Sickness Unto Death":

   And when the hourglass has run out, the hourglass of temporality, when the noise of secular life has grown silent and its restless or ineffectual activism has come to an end, when everything around you is still, as it is in eternity, then eternity asks you and every individual in these millions and millions about only one thing: whether you have lived in despair or not.

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References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=hourglass
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Hourglass
3. ^ Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
   https://johnsonsdictionaryonline.com/views/search.php?term=hourglass
4. ^ Wikipedia
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hourglass
5. ^ ChatGPT
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6. ^ Webster Dictionary
   https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/hourglass
7. ^ Wikidata
   https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?search=hourglass