Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A sand-glass used for determining the time in boiling eggs.
- noun An apparatus for the automatic cooking of eggs.
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Examples
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When employers refuse, he suggests his patients set an egg-timer at work and get up every 30 to 45 minutes to stretch and walk around.
Does Your Chair Have Your Back? Sue Shellenbarger 2011
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It reminds me of first arriving here and moving into a furnished apartment where my husband and I were thrilled to discover a truly Gallic kitchen: no kettle, no egg-timer, but instead a stove-top espresso pot, a tagine dish and—the height of sophistication—a wine thermometer.
Bearing Witness to the War, Lest We Forget Lennox Morrison 2011
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I'd always seen life as an egg-timer sitting precariously on the edge of a table — time slips away or it falls and everything smashes.
Potsdamer Strasse #4 Jasoni 2011
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Try the Pomodoro Technique, which takes its name from a tomato-shaped egg-timer.
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Researchers on an egg-timer schedule explain the disturbing effects of playing with Barbies, and of looking at photos of sexed-up female athletes.
Lily Blau: Girl Power: Great Feminists You May Not Know (Because Some Are Still in High School!) Lily Blau 2010
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Researchers on an egg-timer schedule explain the disturbing effects of playing with Barbies, and of looking at photos of sexed-up female athletes.
Lily Blau: Girl Power: Great Feminists You May Not Know (Because Some Are Still in High School!) Lily Blau 2010
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Researchers on an egg-timer schedule explain the disturbing effects of playing with Barbies, and of looking at photos of sexed-up female athletes.
Lily Blau: Girl Power: Great Feminists You May Not Know (Because Some Are Still in High School!) Lily Blau 2010
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This mechanical kitchen timer combines a tape-measure and an egg-timer: the pull-out tape is marked with time increments instead of distance measurements.
Boing Boing: January 22, 2006 - January 28, 2006 Archives 2006
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But twice this past month, I slept through the moderately-loud cell phone alarm, and even the powerful digital egg-timer.
Archive 2006-05-01 2006
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Now that Sophie thought about it, her morning dreams a dark confusing blur of emergencies had included the buzzing of an egg-timer and the beeping of a radio-wave apparatus for detecting enemy aircraft.
So after two months of painfully hard work Jenny Davidson 2006
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