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diamond English

Learners of English as a second language usually know the word diamond once they have reached the level B2 – Upper Intermediate. English words by learner level A1 A2 B1 B2 C1 C2

Meaning diamond meaning

What does diamond mean?

Definitions in simple English

diamond Noun

— Diamond is a very hard mineral made from carbon that is shiny like glass. The blades of cutting tools like saws and knives are sometimes coated in diamond.

— A diamond is a precious gemstone made from the mineral diamond. The diamond is the birthstone of April.

— In geometry, a diamond is a rhombus shape, especially one that is taller than it is wide; big◊/big.

— In card games, the diamonds are one of the four playing card suits. The diamonds and the hearts are the two red-colored suits.

— In cards games, a diamond is a card of the diamond suit. I have three diamonds in my hand.

diamond

— 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

— 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 (= baseball diamond) the area of a baseball field that is enclosed by 3 bases and home plate

— noun (= ball field) the baseball playing field

— noun (= rhombus) a parallelogram with four equal sides; an oblique-angled equilateral parallelogram

Synonyms diamond synonyms

What other words have the same or similar meaning as diamond?

diamond English » English

precious stone

lozenge

gem

brilliant

rhombus

infield

adamant

rhomb

jewel

baseball diamond

ruby

rock

rhombic

namely

baseball field

ball field

adamantine

vajra

spark

solitaire

shiner

sapphire

rhombus rhomb

rhomboid

rhombohedral

quadrilateral

pick

pearl

orchard

lot

ice

frame

field

emerald

double-wedge

diamond-shaped

diamant

cut diamond

coral

brick

box

beryl

ballpark

adamas

Topics diamond topics

What do people use diamond to talk about?

Universe, creation World Substance, matter

Jewel

• What types of jewels are there?
  agate amethyst beryl carnelian chalcedony chrysolite chrysoprase diamond emerald garnet ivory jacinth jasper marble onyx pearl quartz ruby sapphire sardonyx topaz

Social behavior Social activity Entertainment, recreation Game

Card game

• What equipment is used to play the game?
  card deck suit heart diamond club hand trick spade kitty

Examples diamond examples

How do I use diamond in a sentence?

Simple sentences

The hardness of diamond is such that it can cut glass.

We're celebrating our diamond wedding anniversary next March, that's 60 whole years we'll have been together.

Is this a real diamond?

Our baseball diamond is very small.

Nothing is as hard as a diamond.

The hardness of diamond is 10.

The diamond shone brightly.

I'm not wearing a diamond ring, but I'm happy.

It seems that the diamond is real.

The diamond was discovered by a boy in 1873.

That diamond ring cost an arm and a leg.

This can be a real diamond.

This can't be a real diamond.

This diamond is not real.

Is this diamond real?

This diamond ring is too extravagant for me.

The diamond was set in a gold ring.

Kate always shows off the big diamond ring she got from her fiance.

Movie subtitles

I've invented a diamond formation that I used at the Olympics, called the diamond formation.

A diamond.

This daring theft was discovered only when Mr. Wallace Jack called at the jeweler's shop at 73 rue Jacob, where he had left his famous diamond to be reset.

You're coming for the diamond now?

Have you ever seen that diamond necklace of Mrs. Potter's?

Diamond Pete Montana.

Diamond Pete asked me to come up.

Do you happen to know anything about a diamond-and-platinum watch that was stolen, do you?

How's Diamond Pete going to stop me?

Diamond Pete could scare him, but I ain't no Sam.

I was little, slim, but hard as a diamond.

Diamond Anna!

It's signed by Karetzky, Diamond Anna, and her sweetheart.

A lady's diamond earring has been lost.

On the reverse side of this miniature is a diamond.

Don't lose the diamond.

With diamond buttons, and a cocked hat, and a box of money.

Diamond brooch.

And my diamond studded case.

I can't buy you any diamond clips or pearl necklaces.

Imagine me with a real diamond bracelet.

JUWELER ARRESTED This daring theft was discovered only when Mr. Wallace Jack called at the jeweler's shop at 73 rue Jacob, where he had left his famous diamond to be reset.

Have you ever seen that diamond necklace of Mrs. Potter's? You bet I have.

Long, slender and artistic, and a diamond ring the size of a small potato on the right little finger.

Like a diamond.

Do you still have that awful weakness for diamond bracelets?

Diamond ring.

My diamond pin was in it.

Your diamond pin?

You just lost a diamond pin.

My diamond pin is in it.

A diamond ring, and do buy a great big one.

You remember the platinum watch with the diamond numbers?

News and current affairs

It is therefore encouraging that concerns about Zimbabwean diamonds are being raised within the diamond trade itself.

For example, say that the EU decides to put up a diamond-studded wind turbine at the Berlaymont headquarters, which will save one ton of CO2 each year.

It is an arresting assertion, given the tax-cut mania that has prevailed in these societies for the past 30 years, but Diamond and Saez's logic is clear.

Yet more than half of us are likely to reject the conclusion reached by Diamond and Saez.

Consider diamond mining, Namibia's biggest industry and export.

Recently, however, concern has been expressed - from within the diamond trade - that the scope of the Kimberley Process is too limited, and that consumers have thus been lulled into believing that there are no longer any ethical problems with diamonds.

The Marange diamond field, discovered in 2006, is one of the richest ever found.

According to the Zimbabwean finance minister, Tendai Biti, four years after the military took over the diamond fields, the national treasury has received not one penny of royalties from the sale of Marange diamonds.

Zimbabwe's military and political elite has appropriated the diamond field's immense wealth for itself, with no benefits for the millions of desperately poor Zimbabweans who need the kind of services that the country has the resources to provide.

The Rapaport Group, an international network of companies providing services to the diamond industry, refuses to list Marange diamonds on its diamond-trading platform, RapNet.

Martin Rapaport, chairman of the group, has called for free access to the diamond fields by non-governmental organizations and industry representatives to monitor the human rights situation.

And, if the diamond industry can put itself on an ethical footing, it might send a message to other industries that deal in resources that are effectively being stolen from some of the world's poorest people.

WASHINGTON, DC - The recent departure of Robert Diamond from Barclays marks a watershed.

But Diamond was a banker supposedly at the top of his game.

And, while his bank had been found in violation of various rules recently, including on products sold to consumers and on how it reported interest rates, Diamond had managed to distance himself from the damage.

Press reports indicate that regulators were willing to give Diamond a free pass - right up to the moment when a serious political backlash took hold.