diamond
Speech parts
1. diamond - Noun
2. diamond - Adjective
3. diamond - Verb
4. Diamond - Proper noun
Meaning
A precious stone or gem excelling in brilliancy and beautiful play of prismatic colors, and remarkable for extreme hardness.
A geometrical figure, consisting of four equal straight lines, and having two of the interior angles acute and two obtuse; a rhombus; a lozenge.
One of a suit of playing cards, stamped with the figure of a diamond.
A pointed projection, like a four-sided pyramid, used for ornament in lines or groups.
The infield; the square space, 90 feet on a side, having the bases at its angles.
The smallest kind of type in English printing, except that called brilliant, which is seldom seen.
Resembling a diamond; made of, or abounding in, diamonds; as, a diamond chain; a diamond field.
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Examples
Better a diamond with a flaw than a pebble without.
Two golden hours somewhere between sunrise and sunset. Both are set with 60 diamond minutes. No reward is offered. They are gone forever.
A fine quotation is a diamond on the finger of a man of wit, and a pebble in the hand of a fool.
A diamond shines even in the mud.
A thief is a thief, whether he steals a diamond or a cucumber.
A diamond with a flaw is worth more than a pebble without imperfections.