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Significados de hourglass en inglés

A device that measures the passage of a few minutes or an hour of time thanks to sand flowing through a narrow passage from one vessel to another.

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Examples for "sandglass"
Examples for "sandglass"
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It is hollow and sandglass-shaped, with only two strings remaining.
Hard-boiled wonderland and the end of the world: a novel
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In fact he was timing the eclipse with his sandglass, re-emerging at the appropriate juncture.
The Guardian
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There were sandglass clocks.
Our Legal Heritage: The First Thousand Years: 600 - 1600 / King ...
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It was called The Sandglass in English.
The Guardian
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"Judging from the sounds half a sandglass ago, he was healthy enough."
Burning up
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It will also ship with a sand timer.
Wired
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You can use the sand timer instead of the CD, but it's harder to keep an eye on that while you're racing around the temple.
Wired
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You've got sand timers which limit your actions, and one main timer which indicates how often the ship takes damage.
Wired
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The key mechanic of the game is in the sand timers which tell you when you can take an action.
Wired
Uso de hourglass en inglés
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He revolutionized the skiing industry when he started to use hourglass-shaped skis.
Reuters
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Then he nudged my sister and said, Look at that hourglass figure.
My horizontal life: a collection of one-night stands
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At night, the sand in the hourglass has run through twelve times.
McGuffey's Second Eclectic Reader
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He could almost hear the sound of sand whisking through the hourglass.
Sins of the Fathers
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Armed people poured through the opening like sand falling through an hourglass.
Abaddon's Gate
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Sands within an hourglass are measured a closed set, a finite amount.
Demon: a memoir
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But the body's hourglass design looks modern, and it's easy to grip.
Wired
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Most of the sand had fallen to one side of the hourglass.
Night gate
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Annie made an hourglass figure with her hands and pointed to Ros.
Brains: a zombie memoir
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Reality spills through her slim fingers like the sands of an hourglass.
After dark
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To have an hourglass show up here can only mean one thing.
Map of bones
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Below the repelatrons was an hourglass-shaped power unit, housing a solar-charged battery.
Tom Swift and The Visitor from Planet X
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Its hourglass-shaped brush is designed to separate lashes and coat them evenly.
News.com.au
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She tried to take the hourglass from her pocket but could not.
Night gate
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My brother died of grief while I was trapped inside the hourglass.
Night gate
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A skeletal finger clasps a small hourglass tightly against the wooden staff.
The South African
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