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dia⋅mond

  [dahy-muhnd, dahy-uh-]
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–noun
1. a pure or nearly pure, extremely hard form of carbon, naturally crystallized in the isometric system.
2. a piece of this stone.
3. a transparent, flawless or almost flawless piece of this stone, esp. when cut and polished, valued as a precious gem.
4. a ring or other piece of jewelry containing such a precious stone, esp. an engagement ring.
5. a piece of this stone used in a drill or cutting tool.
6. a tool provided with such an uncut stone, used for cutting glass.
7. crystallized carbon, or a piece of it, artificially produced.
8. an equilateral quadrilateral, esp. as placed with its diagonals vertical and horizontal; a lozenge or rhombus.
9. any rhombus-shaped figure or object oriented with its diagonals vertical and horizontal.
10. a red rhombus-shaped figure on a playing card.
11. a card of the suit bearing such figures.
12. diamonds, (used with a singular or plural verb) the suit so marked: Diamonds is trump. Diamonds are trump.
13. Baseball.
a. the space enclosed by home plate and the three bases; infield.
b. the entire playing field.
14. Printing. a 4 1/2 -point type of a size between brilliant and pearl.
–adjective
15. made of or set with a diamond or diamonds.
16. having the shape of a diamond: a dress with a diamond print.
17. indicating the 75th, or sometimes the 60th, event of a series, as a wedding anniversary.
–verb (used with object)
18. to adorn with or as if with diamonds.
—Idiom
19. diamond in the rough, a person of fine character but lacking refined manners or graces.
Origin:
1275–1325; ME diamant < OF < VL *diamant-, s. of *diamas, perh. alter. of *adimas (> F aimant magnet, OPr aziman diamond, magnet), for L adamas adamant, diamond

Related forms:
dia⋅mond⋅like, adjective
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Dia⋅mond

  [dahy-muhnd, dahy-uh-]
–noun
1. Neil, born 1941, U.S. singer and songwriter.
2. Cape, a hill in Canada, in S Quebec, on the St. Lawrence River.
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di·a·mond   (dī'ə-mənd, dī'mənd)   
n.  

  1. An extremely hard, highly refractive crystalline form of carbon that is usually colorless and is used as a gemstone and in abrasives, cutting tools, and other applications.

  2. A piece of jewelry containing such a gemstone.

  3. A figure with four equal sides forming two inner obtuse angles and two inner acute angles; a rhombus or lozenge.

  4. Games

    1. A red, lozenge-shaped figure on certain playing cards.

    2. A playing card with this figure.

    3. diamonds (used with a sing. or pl. verb) The suit of cards represented by this figure.

    4. An infield.

    5. The whole playing field.

  5. Baseball

    1. An infield.

    2. The whole playing field.

adj.  Of or relating to a 60th or 75th anniversary.
tr.v.   di·a·mond·ed, di·a·mond·ing, di·a·monds
To adorn with or as if with diamonds.

[Middle English diamaunt, from Old French diamant, from Medieval Latin diamās-, diamant-, alteration of Latin adamās; see adamant.]
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
Copyright © 2009 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.
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Word Origin & History

diamond 
c.1310, from O.Fr. diamant, from M.L. diamantem (nom. diamas), from V.L. *adiamantem (altered by infl. of the many Gk. words in dia-), from L. adamantem (nom. adamans) "the hardest metal," later, "diamond" (see adamant). Playing card suit is from 1594; Sense in baseball is Amer.Eng. 1875.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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Financial Dictionary

Diamond

Registered name for interest in a trust that holds all 30 stocks included in the Dow Jones Industrial Average. Ownership of a Diamond allows an investor to track the DJIA with a single investment. Diamonds are traded on the American Stock Exchange under the symbol DIA.

Wall Street Words: An A to Z Guide to Investment Terms by David L. Scott.
Copyright © 2003. Published by Houghton Mifflin.
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Computing Dictionary

Diamond
One of five pedagogical languages based on Markov algorithms, used in "Nonpareil, a Machine Level Machine Independent Language for the Study of Semantics", B. Higman, ULICS Intl Report No ICSI 170, U London (1968). (cf. Brilliant, Nonpareil, Pearl[3], Ruby[2]).

The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing, © 1993-2007 Denis Howe
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Bible Dictionary

Diamond

(1.) A precious gem (Heb. yahalom', in allusion to its hardness), otherwise unknown, the sixth, i.e., the third in the second row, in the breastplate of the high priest, with the name of Naphtali engraven on it (Ex. 28:18; 39:11; R.V. marg., "sardonyx.") (2.) A precious stone (Heb. shamir', a sharp point) mentioned in Jer. 17:1. From its hardness it was used for cutting and perforating other minerals. It is rendered "adamant" (q.v.) in Ezek. 3:9, Zech. 7:12. It is the hardest and most valuable of precious stones.

Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary
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