Water-clock
11water clock — device used for setting a specific period of time …
12water-clock — n. Clepsydra …
13water-clock — …
14Jayrun Water Clock — Drawing from the treatise On the Construction of Clocks and their Use (click to enlarge) The Jayrun Water Clock, a water clock built by the Arab engineer Muhammad al Sa ati, was positioned at the gate of Damascus, Syria, at the exit of the… …
15water glass — 1. a) a drinking glass or goblet b) a glass container for water, etc. 2. WATER GAUGE (sense 2) 3. a glass bottomed tube or box for looking at things under water 4. sodium silicate or, sometimes, potassium silicate, occurring as a stony powder,… …
16Clock — For other uses, see Clock (disambiguation). Timepiece redirects here. For the Kenny Rogers album, see Timepiece (album). Platform clock at King s Cross railway station, London …
17Clock tower — This is an article on clock towers. For the video game series see Clock Tower (series). For the UAE roundabout, see Deira Clocktower. The Clock Tower, Westminster, London A clock tower is a tower specifically built with one or more (often four)… …
18clock — {{11}}clock (n.) late 14c., clokke, originally clock with bells, probably from M.Du. clocke (Du. klok), from O.N.Fr. cloque, from M.L. (7c.) clocca bell, probably from Celtic (Cf. O.Ir. clocc, Welsh cloch bell ) and spread by Irish missionaries… …
19water glass — noun 1. a glass for drinking water • Hypernyms: ↑glass, ↑drinking glass 2. gauge for indicating the level of water in e.g. a tank or boiler or reservoir • Syn: ↑water gauge, ↑water gage • Hypernyms: ↑ …
20water — n. & v. n. 1 a colourless transparent odourless tasteless liquid compound of oxygen and hydrogen. Usage: Chem. formula: H2O 2 a liquid consisting chiefly of this and found in seas, lakes, and rivers, in rain, and in secretions of organisms. 3 an… …
