Diamond

['daɪəmənd]

Definition

(noun.) a playing card in the minor suit that has one or more red rhombuses on it; 'he led a small diamond'; 'diamonds were trumps'.

(noun.) a transparent piece of diamond that has been cut and polished and is valued as a precious gem.

(noun.) very hard native crystalline carbon valued as a gem.

Edited by Henry--From WordNet

Definition

(n.) A precious stone or gem excelling in brilliancy and beautiful play of prismatic colors, and remarkable for extreme hardness.

(n.) A geometrical figure, consisting of four equal straight lines, and having two of the interior angles acute and two obtuse; a rhombus; a lozenge.

(n.) One of a suit of playing cards, stamped with the figure of a diamond.

(n.) A pointed projection, like a four-sided pyramid, used for ornament in lines or groups.

(n.) The infield; the square space, 90 feet on a side, having the bases at its angles.

(n.) The smallest kind of type in English printing, except that called brilliant, which is seldom seen.

(a.) Resembling a diamond; made of, or abounding in, diamonds; as, a diamond chain; a diamond field.

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Synonyms and Synonymous

n. [1]. Adamant, BRILLIANT, crystallized carbon.[2]. Rhombus, lozenge.

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Definition

n. the most valuable of all gems and the hardest of all substances: a four-sided figure with two obtuse and two acute angles: one of the four suits of cards: one of the smallest kinds of English printing type.—adj. resembling diamonds: made of diamonds: marked with diamonds: lozenge-shaped rhombic.—ns. Dī′amond-bee′tle a beautiful sparkling South American weevil; Dī′amond-cut′ting diamond-setting; Dī′amond-drill an annular borer whose bit is set with borts; Dī′amond-dust Dī′amond-pow′der the powder made by the friction of diamonds on one another in the course of polishing.—adjs. Dī′amonded furnished with diamonds; Diamondif′erous yielding diamonds.—n. Dī′amond-wheel a wheel covered with diamond-dust and oil for polishing diamonds and other precious stones.—Diamond cut diamond the case of an encounter between two very sharp persons.—Rough diamond an uncut diamond: a person of great worth though of rude exterior and unpolished manners.

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Unserious Contents or Definition

To dream of owning diamonds is a very propitious dream, signifying great honor and recognition from high places. For a young woman to dream of her lover presenting her with diamonds, foreshows that she will make a great and honorable marriage, which will fill her people with honest pride; but to lose diamonds, and not find them again, is the most unlucky of dreams, foretelling disgrace, want and death. For a sporting woman to dream of diamonds, foretells for her many prosperous days and magnificent presents. For a speculator, it denotes prosperous transactions. To dream of owning diamonds, portends the same for sporting men or women. Diamonds are omens of good luck, unless stolen from the bodies of dead persons, when they foretell that your own unfaithfulness will be discovered by your friends.

Editor: Val

Unserious Contents or Definition

A bright gem the sparkle of which sometimes renders a woman stone-blind to the defects of the man proffering it.

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