(n.) 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.
Example Sentences:
(1) We already have an hourglass economy, with plenty of room at the top for those with existing wealth and access to capital, and a wide, flat base of lower-paid jobs that cannot be automated.
(2) These results are consistent with the hypothesis that the birds use a circadian clock rather than an hourglass mechanism of timing.
(3) As a white hourglass moves across a black background, the middle appears to lag behind its true position, resulting in the apparent bending of the axis of the hourglass.
(4) On the other hand, prepared curved canals were invariably hourglass in shape.
(5) "T experiments" demonstrate that the clock controlling termination of larval diapause in Ostrinia nubilalis is an hourglass mechanism that measures 8 hours of darkness.
(6) A "distal hourglass" gastric deformity was present, along with gastritis and marked spasm.
(7) Three anatomic types of cor triatriatum were identified in the cases studied at necropsy: diaphragmatic (10 cases), hourglass (3) and tubular (3).
(8) In some cases, they’ve also longed for Barbie’s blue eyes and flawlessly applied brown eye shadow, her perfect hourglass figure, long and shiny blonde hair and thigh gap, too.
(9) The primary findings consist of (1) a cerebral surface that is agyric or agyric with pachygyric areas, (2) a cerebral contour that is oval or "hourglass" due to lack of or incomplete opercularization of the brain, and (3) an abnormal gray-white-matter distribution in the cerebral hemispheres.
(10) Bamba Issa took its inspiration from a Disney comic book, Donald Duck and The Magic Hourglass , which UFO felt was “an allegory for capitalism, its arrogance and shortcomings”.
(11) Typically, these bones showed an "hourglass" constriction midshaft and anterior bowing.
(12) In 7 of 31, an hourglass configuration of the left ventricular cavity was noted.
(13) Further, the main cause of delayed gastric emptying was revealed to be the deformity itself, because the shortening of the distance from the gastric angle to the pyloric ring at the lesser curvature (sac-shaped stomach) and the indentation of the corpus ventriculi (hourglass-shaped stomach) significantly delayed gastric emptying.
(14) Bilobed and multiseptated gallbladder have been described before, but this is the first isolated case of a congenital hourglass gallbladder.
(15) The possibility and the problems of an surgical technique because of cervical insufficiency in the 2. trimester with a hourglass amniotic prolapse is shown in three cases.
(16) The net movement of the label from the labeled membrane to the adjacent unlabeled membrane in each of the hourglass-shaped fusion products was recorded by micrography at various known times after the fusion took place, but before equilibrium was achieved.
(17) The diagnostic value of the method is higher in tumors of superocervical localization and hourglass tumors.
(18) Associated anomalies were found in five cases of the diaphragmatic type and in each case of the hourglass of tubular types.
(19) The meningocele resembled an hourglass made up of intrasacral and anterior sacral components.
(20) It is plausible that overt rhythms of both oscillators are complex, mainly because of the interaction of hourglass principle with circadian clock mechanism.
Monday
Definition:
(n.) The second day of the week; the day following Sunday.
Example Sentences:
(1) On Monday, the day after a party congress officially cementing Putin's candidacy in the 4 March presidential election, the top stories on Inosmi concerned modernisation, the eurozone crisis and Iran.
(2) Personalised health tests that screen thousands of genes for versions that influence disease are inaccurate and offer little, if any, benefit to consumers, scientists claimed on Monday.
(3) It has also been given to Sir Andrew Large, a former deputy governor of the Bank of England, whose report on lending failures by RBS will also be released on Monday.
(4) While it’s not unknown to see such self-balancing mini scooters on the pavement, under legal guidance reiterated on Monday by the Crown Prosecution Service all such “personal transporters”, including hoverboards and Segways , are banned from the footpath.
(5) Read more After Monday’s launch at 7.30am (11.30pm GMT), the taikonauts will dock with the Tiangong 2 space laboratory, where they will spend about a month, testing systems and processes for space stays and refuelling, and doing scientific experiments.
(6) The arrival on Monday was another first for the two countries since Barack Obama and Cuban President Raúl Castro announced a historic rapprochement in December 2014, and comes weeks after Obama’s visit to the Caribbean island.
(7) Shares in the bank have fallen more than 30% since Britain voted to leave the EU and the share closed on Monday at 167p, well below the 502p average price at which taxpayers bought their stake in the bank.
(8) Dunne added: “If we find any evidence, we will pass it on to the committees on arms export controls.” No such evidence, until Monday, had been given to parliament.
(9) Senior sources said on Monday that the vacancies had left it in effect rudderless, and unable to introduce any significant reforms.
(10) All of the parties have been trying to use Greece to their advantage.” On Monday, the governing People’s party pointed to the referendum to justify their decision to impose austerity measures during the height of the economic crisis.
(11) She began on Friday by urging Republican women at a convention to “look at this face”, meaning her own, condemned Trump’s remarks as “unpresidential”, and then the Super Pac campaigning group, Carly For America, used Fiorina’s words as a voiceover for a video ad posted on YouTube on Monday showcasing dozens of women’s faces as the “faces of leadership”.
(12) But later on Monday, Dinze told the Guardian that Pavlensky did not have pneumonia or lasting problems from the severed earlobe and would probably be discharged from the hospital soon.
(13) I want Monday’s meeting to be the start of a new grown-up relationship between the devolved administrations and the UK government – one in which we all work together to forge the future for everyone in the United Kingdom,” she said.
(14) The US started down this course during the Sony hack last year, and in this case, transparency might be the best deterrent in the future – which, by the way, is something both Snowden and the Snowden-hating national security blog Lawfare argued on Monday.
(15) As 1,000 fishing boats were on their way to the islands the Chinese know as Diaoyu and the Japanese call the Senkaku, the People's Daily warned on Monday that the incident could lead to a full-blown trade boycott.
(16) Souweine said the group hoped to expand to New Hampshire, where Romney plans to hold his final rally on Monday, or to North Carolina.
(17) It represents a rapid deterioration in relations since Monday when, previewing the Rotherham game, Karanka spoke of his “amazing” relationship with Steve Gibson, Boro’s owner, and everyone at the club.
(18) Some prominent US militia leaders are distancing themselves from the armed occupation, which is a protest against Monday’s incarceration of two local ranchers, father and son Dwight and Steven Hammond.
(19) The UN-recognised parliament is expected to meet on Monday for a vital vote of confidence in the new administration, the next step in asserting its authority in the country.
(20) When Hayley Cropper swallows poison on Coronation Street on Monday night, taking her own life to escape inoperable pancreatic cancer, with her beloved husband, Roy, in pieces at her bedside, it will be the end of a character who, thanks to Hesmondhalgh's performance, has captivated and challenged British TV viewers for 16 years.