hourglass
noun
1 hourglass
A sandglass that runs for sixty minutes.
Roget 203:
narrowness
etc.
adj.;
closeness,
exility†;
exiguity
etc.
(little)
193.
line;
hair's breadth,
finger's breadth;
strip,
streak,
vein.
monolayer;
epitaxial deposition [Eng.].
thinness
etc.
adj.;
tenuity;
emaciation,
macilency†,
marcor†.
shaving,
slip
etc.
(filament)
205;
thread paper,
skeleton,
shadow,
anatomy,
spindleshanks†,
lantern jaws,
mere skin and bone.
middle constriction,
stricture,
neck,
waist,
isthmus,
wasp,
hourglass;
ridge,
ghaut†,
ghat†,
pass;
ravine
etc.
198.
narrowing,
coarctation†,
angustation†,
tapering;
contraction
etc.
195.
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Roget 114:
chronometry,
horometry†,
horology;
date,
epoch;
style,
era.
almanac,
calendar,
ephemeris;
register,
registry;
chronicle,
annals,
journal,
diary.
[Instruments for the measurement of time]
chronogram;
clock,
wall clock,
pendulum clock,
grandfather's clock,
cuckoo clock,
alarm clock,
clock radio;
watch,
wristwatch,
pocket watch,
stopwatch,
Swiss watch;
atomic clock,
digital clock,
analog clock,
quartz watch,
water clock;
chronometer,
chronoscope†,
chronograph;
repeater;
timekeeper,
timepiece;
dial,
sundial,
gnomon,
horologe,
pendulum,
hourglass,
clepsydra†;
ghurry†.
chronographer†,
chronologer,
chronologist,
timekeeper;
annalist.
calendar year,
leap year,
Julian calendar,
Gregorian calendar,
Chinese calendar,
Jewish calendar,
perpetual calendar,
Farmer's almanac,
fiscal year.
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Roget 195:
contraction,
reduction,
diminution;
decrease of size
etc.
36;
defalcation,
decrement;
lessening,
shrinking
etc.
v.;
compaction;
tabes†,
collapse,
emaciation,
attenuation,
tabefaction†,
consumption,
marasmus†,
atrophy;
systole,
neck,
hourglass.
condensation,
compression,
compactness;
compendium
etc.
596;
squeezing
etc.
v.;
strangulation;
corrugation;
astringency;
astringents,
sclerotics;
contractility,
compressibility;
coarctation†.
inferiority in size.
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Dutch: zandloper
Moby thesaurus: abbreviation, astriction, astringency, bottleneck, cervix, circumscription, coarctation, compactedness, compaction, compression, compressure, concentration, condensation, consolidation, constriction, constringency, contraction, contracture, curtailment, decrease, diminuendo, hourglass figure, isthmus, knitting, narrow place, narrowing, neck, puckering, pursing, reduction, shortening, solidification, stranglement, strangulation, striction, stricture, systole, wasp waist, wrinkling ... show more.
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