Hourglassとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• IPA: /ˈaʊəɡlɑːs/

名詞

hourglass (plural hourglasses)

1. A clock made of two glass vessels connected by a narrow passage through which sand flows.

   Synonyms: sandglass, sand timer, watch glass

   Hyponym: egg timer

   Meronym: pinch

   After each game turn, invert the hourglass to reset the time limit for the next player.

   • 1819, John Keats, “Canto I”, in The Fall of Hyperion:

     The sands of thy short life are spent this hour, / And no hand in the universe can turn / Thy hourglass, if these gummed leaves be burnt / Ere thou canst mount up these immortal steps.

2. (graphical user interface) A cursor, often shaped like an hourglass, indicating that the computer is busy.

   Synonym: egg timer

   Coordinate term: (Apple) beach ball

   • 2002, Maximum PC (Winter 2002, page 16)

     When I right click the desktop display to check Display Properties, it hangs and shows me only the hourglass instead of the display menu.

派生語

参考

• ⏳, ⌛
• tempus fugit

動詞

hourglass (third-person singular simple present hourglasses, present participle hourglassing, simple past and past participle hourglassed)

1. To display the cursor as an hourglass to indicate that the computer is busy.
   • 2006 May 5, Drew, “Timeout Expired but worked 3 months ago”, in microsoft.public.access.adp.sqlserver‎ (Usenet):

     I have an ADP that I use for reporting that I have used for about a year. I only use it every 3 months, and it has worked up until now. This morning I tried using it, but after trying to open the report, it hourglassed and then showed a "Timeout expired" error. I searched this message and found out how to set the timeout limit, and set it to 300 seconds. Still the same message.

Further reading

• hourglass on Wikipedia.Wikipedia