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DIAMOND
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The baseball playing field
Synonyms:
ball field; baseball field; diamond
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("diamond" is a kind of...):
athletic field; field; playing area; playing field (a piece of land prepared for playing a game)
Meronyms (parts of "diamond"):
baseball diamond; diamond; infield (the area of a baseball field that is enclosed by 3 bases and home plate)
box (any one of several designated areas on a ball field where the batter or catcher or coaches are positioned)
outfield (the area of a baseball playing field beyond the lines connecting the bases)
foul line (lines through 1st and 3rd base indicating the boundaries of a baseball field)
Holonyms ("diamond" is a part of...):
ballpark; park (a facility in which ball games are played (especially baseball games))
Sense 2
Meaning:
The area of a baseball field that is enclosed by 3 bases and home plate
Synonyms:
baseball diamond; diamond; infield
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("diamond" is a kind of...):
parcel; parcel of land; piece of ground; piece of land; tract (an extended area of land)
Meronyms (parts of "diamond"):
short (the location on a baseball field where the shortstop is stationed)
hill; mound; pitcher's mound ((baseball) the slight elevation on which the pitcher stands)
batter's box (an area on a baseball diamond (on either side of home plate) marked by lines within which the batter must stand when at bat)
bag; base (a place that the runner must touch before scoring)
Domain category:
ball; baseball; baseball game (a ball game played with a bat and ball between two teams of nine players; teams take turns at bat trying to score runs)
Holonyms ("diamond" is a part of...):
ball field; baseball field; diamond (the baseball playing field)
Sense 3
Meaning:
A playing card in the minor suit that has one or more red rhombuses on it
Example:
diamonds were trumps
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("diamond" is a kind of...):
playing card (one of a pack of cards that are used to play card games)
Holonyms ("diamond" is a member of...):
minor suit (( bridge) a suit of inferior scoring value, either diamonds or clubs)
Sense 4
Meaning:
A transparent piece of diamond that has been cut and polished and is valued as a precious gem
Classified under:
Nouns denoting possession and transfer of possession
Hypernyms ("diamond" is a kind of...):
gem; jewel; precious stone (a precious or semiprecious stone incorporated into a piece of jewelry)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "diamond"):
ice; sparkler (diamonds)
Sense 5
Meaning:
A parallelogram with four equal sides; an oblique-angled equilateral parallelogram
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Nouns denoting two and three dimensional shapes
Hypernyms ("diamond" is a kind of...):
parallelogram (a quadrilateral whose opposite sides are both parallel and equal in length)
Sense 6
Meaning:
Very hard native crystalline carbon valued as a gem
Synonyms:
adamant; diamond
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("diamond" is a kind of...):
atomic number 6; C; carbon (an abundant nonmetallic tetravalent element occurring in three allotropic forms: amorphous carbon and graphite and diamond; occurs in all organic compounds)
transparent gem (a gemstone having the property of transmitting light without serious diffusion)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "diamond"):
black diamond; carbonado (an inferior dark diamond used in industry for drilling and polishing)
Context examples:
So you see I got diamonds into my head.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
The frost-dust is like the dust of diamonds, and all the air is filled with it.
(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)
And all because she will not find a beggarly sum which she could get by turning her diamonds into paste.
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
I saw a poor fellow at the inn here—it was some years ago—who showed us his back in the tap-room, all cut into red diamonds with the boat-swain’s whip.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Buckyball, also known as fullerene or C60, is one of three known pure forms of carbon (graphite and diamond being the other two) that takes a spherical shape with a hollow interior.
(Buckyball, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
She was left with limited means, but with some very remarkable old Spanish jewellery of silver and curiously cut diamonds to which she was fondly attached—too attached, for she refused to leave them with her banker and always carried them about with her.
(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Impelled by an irresistible presentiment, you will eagerly advance to it, unlock its folding doors, and search into every drawer—but for some time without discovering anything of importance—perhaps nothing but a considerable hoard of diamonds.
(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)
A diamond, sir?
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
As he did so the narrow black velvet band which she seems always to wear round her throat, buckled with an old diamond buckle which her lover had given her, was dragged a little up, and showed a red mark on her throat.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
This month, your ideas will sparkle like diamonds in the Sun.
(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)
