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Definition: Diamond |
DiamondNoun1. A transparent piece of diamond that has been cut and polished and is valued as a precious gem. 2. Very hard native crystalline carbon valued as a gem. 3. A playing card in the minor suit of diamonds. 4. The area of a baseball field that is enclosed by 3 bases and home plate. 5. The baseball playing field. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
"Diamond" is a name that signifies or is derived from: "a diamond". |
Date "diamond" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references) |
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Computing | 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]). Source: The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing. |
19th Century Satire | A bright gem the sparkle of which sometimes renders a woman stone-blind to the defects of the man proffering it. Source: Foolish Dictionary, 1904. |
Bible | 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. Source: Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary. |
Census | (Data Information Access for Modified On-Line Network Delivery) The DIAMOND mission is to guide and support the Bureau's conversion to a customer-oriented organization with the primary focus being on improving our information dissemination programs. (references) |
Literature | Diamond A corruption of adamant. So called because the diamond, which cuts other substances, can be cut or polished with no substance but itself. (Greek, a damao, what cannot be subdued. Latin, adamas, gen. adamant-is; French, diamant.) Diamond (3 syl.). Son of Agapë, a fairy. He was very strong, and fought either on foot or horse with a battle-axe. He was slain in single combat by Cambalo. (See TRIAMOND.) (Spenser: Faërie Queene, book iv.) A diamond of the first water. A man of the highest merit. The colour or lustre of a pearl or diamond is called its "water." One of the "first water" is one of the best colour and most brilliant lustre. We say also, "A man of the first water." A rough diamond. An uncultivated genius; a person of excellent parts, but without society manners. "As for Warrington, that rough diamond had not had the polish of a dancing-master, and he did not know how to waltz." -Thackeray. Diamond cut diamond. Cunning out-witting cunning; a hard bargain over-reached. A diamond is so hard that it can only be ground by diamond dust, or by rubbing one against another. Diamond (Newton's favourite little dog). One winter's morning, while attending early service in Trinity College, Newton inadvertently left Diamond shut up in his room. On returning from chapel he found that the little fellow had upset a candle on his desk, by which several papers containing minutes of many years' experiments, were destroyed. On perceiving this irreparable loss, he exclaimed, "Oh, Diamond, Diamond, thou little knowest the mischief thou hast done!" (Diffusion of Useful Knowledge: Life of Newton, p. 25, col. 2.) Huygens, 1694, referring to this accident says: "Newtonum incidisse in phrenitin abhinc anno ac sex mensibus. An ex nimia studii assiduitate, an dolore infortunii, quod in incendio laboratorium chemicum et scripta quædam amiserat." Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
Mining | A. An isometric mineral, a form of carbon, C ; crystallizes in octahedra, dodecahedra, or cubes, commonly with curved edges and striated faces; rarely twinned; has octahedral cleavage and conchoidal fracture. Fresh cleavages have adamantine luster, but crystal faces are commonly greasy; colorless when pure but pale tints to black (bort) with impurities. The hardest natural substance, it defines 10 on the Mohs hardness scale and 15 on the Povarennykh scale, but ranges from 42 to 46 on a linearized Mohs scale. Its high refractive index (n = 2.42) and strong dispersion give fire to faceted gems. Diamond occurs in kimberlite pipes and dikes, also in river and beach placers. See also:congos b. A crystalline material resembling diamond such as rock crystal (quartz) locally known as "Bristol diamond," "Herkimer diamond," "Lemont diamond," "Lake George diamond," or "Arkansas diamond." See also:industrial diamonds; manmade diamond. c. A pointed wooden or iron arrangement placed between rails, just before a curve or switch, where tram cars are liable to be derailed, to forcethem to remain on the rails. (references) |
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Diamond is one of the natural allotropes of carbon (the main one being graphite). Sometimes known as adamant, it is the hardest known naturally occurring material, scoring 10 on the old Mohs hardness scale. The material boron nitride, when in a form structurally identical to diamond, is nearly as hard as diamond; a currently hypothetical material, beta carbon nitride, may also be as hard or harder in one form. The diamond derives its name from the Greek adamas, "untameable" or "unconquerable", referring to its hardness.
Diamond is a transparent, optically isotropic crystal with a refractive index of 2.417, a high dispersion of 0.044, and a specific gravity of 3.52. Diamonds crystallize in the cubic crystal system and consist of tetrahedrally bonded carbon atoms. Diamonds have a perfect octahedral cleavage, which means that they have four cleavage planes. Diamonds occur most often as euhedral or rounded octahedra and twinned octahedra known as macles. Other forms include dodecahedra and cubes. Diamonds are commonly found coated in nyf, a gum-like skin. Their fracture may be step-like, conchoidal (shell-like, similar to glass) or irregular. The lustre of a diamond is described as adamantine, which simply means diamond-like.
Diamonds exhibit fluorescence of various colors under long wave ultra-violet light, but generally bluish-white, yellowish or greenish fluorescence under X-rays. Diamonds have an absorption spectrum consisting of a fine line in the violet at 415.5 nm. Colored stones show additional bands. Brown diamonds show a band in the green at 504 nm, sometimes accompanied by two additional weak bands also in the green.
Except for most natural blue diamonds which are semiconductors, diamond is a good electrical insulator, but unlike most insulators, is a good conductor of heat because of the strong bonding within the molecule. Specially purified artificial diamonds have the highest thermal conductivity (20-25 W/cmK, five times more than copper) of any known solid at room temperature. Most natural blue diamonds contain boron atoms which replace carbon atoms in the crystal matrix, and also have high thermal conductance. Natural blue diamonds recently recovered from the Argyle mine in Australia have been found to owe their color to an overabundance of hydrogen atoms: these diamonds are not semiconductors.
Because diamonds have such high thermal conductance they are already used in semiconductor manufacture to prevent silicon and other semiconducting materials from overheating. Natural blue diamonds containing boron and synthetic diamonds doped with boron are p-type semiconductors. If an n-type semiconductor can be synthesized, electronic circuits could be manufactured of diamond. Worldwide research is in progress, with occasional successes reported, but nothing definite. In 2002 it was reported in the journal Nature that researchers have succeeded in depositing a thin diamond film on a diamond surface which is a major step towards manufacture of a diamond chip. In 2003 it was reported that NTT developed a diamond semiconductor device.
Type I diamonds have nitrogen atoms as the main impurity. If they are in clusters they do not affect the diamond's color (Type Ia). If dispersed though out the crystal they give the stone a yellow tint (Type Ib), the Cape series. Typically a natural diamond crystal contains both Type Ia and Type Ib material. Synthetic diamonds which contain nitrogen are Type Ib
Type II diamonds have no nitrogen impurities. Rarely, they contain no other impurities: these are Type IIa, colored pink, red or brown by structural anomalies arising through plastic deformation. Type IIb are the natural blue diamonds which contain scattered boron within the crystal matrix.
Diamonds occur in a variety of colors - steel, white, blue, yellow, orange, red, green, pink, brown and black. Colored diamonds contain impurities or molecular defects that cause the coloration, whilst pure diamonds are always transparent and colorless.
In the late 18th century, diamonds were demonstrated to be made of carbon by the rather expensive experiment of igniting a diamond (by means of a burning-glass) in an oxygen atmosphere and showing that carbonic acid gas (carbon dioxide) was the product of the combustion. The fact that diamonds are combustible bears further examination because it is related to an interesting fact about diamonds. Diamonds are carbon crystals that form deep within the Earth under high temperatures and extreme pressures. At surface air pressure (one atmosphere), diamonds are not as stable as graphite, and so the decay of diamond is thermodynamically favorable (ΔH = -2KJmol-1). So, despite De Beers' ad campaign, diamonds are definitely not forever. However, owing to a very large kinetic energy barrier, diamonds will not decay into graphite under normal conditions.
The Diamond Industry
Due to their high dispersion (fire), diamonds have been prized as a constituent of jewellery, and a large trade in gemstone-class diamonds exists, mostly controlled by the De Beers company, which has used its monopoly to control prices.
Marcel Tolkowsky's 1919 book on Diamond Design describes the history of diamond cutting since the late Middle Ages. Roughly 1900, the development of diamond saws and good jewelry lathes enabled the modern Round Brilliant cut. Tolkowsky determined a detailed design for this cut. His geometric calculations are in his book.
In the 1970s, Bruce Harding developed another mathematical model for gem design. Since then, several groups have used computer models (e.g., MSU, OctoNus, GIA, and folds.net) and specialized scopes to design diamond cuts.
During the 1990s Israeli interests acquired about 20% of the diamond trade, buying diamonds from Russia and from mines in Africa not controlled by De Beers. De Beers now deals only in diamonds from their own mines. A major diamond cutting industry has grown up in Gujarat State, India where 90% of the world's diamonds are cut by a workforce of 800,000. Diamonds are valued according to the four C's of diamond grading, namely color, clarity, cut, and carat. Deep blue diamonds such as the Hope Diamond are particularly valuable as are blue-white diamonds generally.
80% of the diamonds produced are poorer quality (discolored, less transparent) diamonds which are used as industrial diamonds, where their extreme hardness is useful in cutting and grinding otherwise intractable materials (including other diamonds). Lately, gas-phase deposition processes have been devised that allow thin diamond films to be grown on some surfaces, greatly increasing the durability of some machine tools.
Diamonds typically have cubic symmetry. A second form called lonsdaleite with hexagonal symmetry is also found. The local environment of each atom is identical in the two structures.
Historically diamonds were found in alluvial deposits in southern India which are now worked out. Most diamond deposits are in Africa, notably in South Africa, Namibia, Botswana, the Republic of the Congo and Sierra Leone. Revolutionary groups in some of those countries have taken control of diamond mines, using the conflict diamonds to finance their continuing operations with baleful results.
There are also commercial deposits in the Northwest Territories, Canada in the Russian Arctic, Brazil and in Northern and Western Australia. Occasionally diamonds have been found in glacial deposits in Wisconsin and Indiana. The Wisconsin finds can be explained by recent Canadian discoveries, but the diamonds found in Indiana must have come from an as yet undiscovered source in Quebec as the movement of ice was from northeast to southwest. Tiny nanometer sized diamonds, often called nanodiamonds, are also found as presolar grains in primitive meteorites.
Diamonds were first produced artificially on February 16, 1953 in Stockholm, Sweden by the QUINTUS project of ASEA, Sweden's major electrical manufacturing company using a bulky apparatus designed by Baltzar von Platen. Pressure was maintained within the device at an estimated 83,000 atmospheres for an hour. A few small crystals were produced. The discovery was kept secret.
While large diamonds has up to now been more expensive to produce artificially than to mine, smaller artificial diamonds and especially diamond dust has become an important industry with General Electric at the forefront. As of 2003, at least two companies are planning to introduce high-quality artificial diamonds, virtually indistinguible from the natural occurring ones, in an year or two. The traditional diamond industry is evaluating countermeasures (source: [1]).
A city of major importance in diamond trade is Antwerp.
Symbolism of Diamonds
Diamonds are the traditional emblem of fearlessness and are used to symbolize eternity and love, being often seen adorning wedding bands.
The LifeGem company further taps this symbolism by offering to synthetically convert the carbonized remains of people or pets into "memorial diamonds."
Famous Stones
- Cullinan Diamond
- Hope Diamond
- Koh-i-noor
- Millennium star
External Links
- On conflict diamonds (UN)
- Article in Nature on the diamond chip
- Article in Nature on advancing techniques of growing diamond crystals
- OctoNus Software has posted several diamond cut studies, by various authors. OctoNus, Moscow State University, Bruce Harding, and others have posted work there.
- Gemological Institute of America
Further Reading
See also: List of minerals, Diamonds (card suit)
- Diamond Design, Marcel Tolkowsky. Web edition as edited by Jasper Paulsen. www.folds.net, Seattle, 2001.
- The New Alchemists: Breaking Through the Barriers of High Pressure, Robert M. Hazen, Times Books, Random House, New York, 1992, hardcover, 286 pages, ISBN 0-8129-2275-1
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Diamond was Sir Isaac Newton's favorite dog, which, by upsetting a lamp, set fire to manuscripts containing his notes on experiments conducted over a course of years.Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Diamond (dog)."
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Diamond is a village located in Grundy County, Illinois. As of the 2000 census, the village had a total population of 1,393.Geography
Diamond is located at 41°17'16" North, 88°15'14" West (41.287699, -88.253824)1. According to the United States Census Bureau, the village has a total area of 4.1 km² (1.6 mi²). 4.1 km² (1.6 mi²) of it is land and none of it is covered by water.Demographics
As of the census of 2000, there are 1,393 people, 551 households, and 406 families residing in the village. The population density is 340.4/km² (880.3/mi²). There are 597 housing units at an average density of 145.9/km² (377.3/mi²). The racial makeup of the village is 97.13% White, 0.00% African American, 0.65% Native American, 0.07% Asian, 0.00% Pacific Islander, 0.86% from other races, and 1.29% from two or more races. 3.52% of the population are Hispanic or Latino of any race. There are 551 households out of which 36.1% have children under the age of 18 living with them, 53.5% are married couples living together, 14.7% have a female householder with no husband present, and 26.3% are non-families. 21.4% of all households are made up of individuals and 5.6% have someone living alone who is 65 years of age or older. The average household size is 2.53 and the average family size is 2.95. In the village the population is spread out with 27.1% under the age of 18, 9.0% from 18 to 24, 30.9% from 25 to 44, 23.0% from 45 to 64, and 9.9% who are 65 years of age or older. The median age is 35 years. For every 100 females there are 94.6 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there are 93.7 males. The median income for a household in the village is $43,750, and the median income for a family is $49,688. Males have a median income of $46,136 versus $24,813 for females. The per capita income for the village is $20,223. 8.6% of the population and 5.6% of families are below the poverty line. Out of the total people living in poverty, 13.2% are under the age of 18 and 9.5% are 65 or older.Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Diamond, Illinois."
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Diamond is a town located in Newton County, Missouri. As of the 2000 census, the town had a total population of 807.Geography
Diamond is located at 36°59'40" North, 94°18'50" West (36.994573, -94.313826)1. According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of 1.7 km² (0.7 mi²). 1.7 km² (0.7 mi²) of it is land and none of it is covered by water.Demographics
As of the census of 2000, there are 807 people, 319 households, and 234 families residing in the town. The population density is 472.1/km² (1,215.2/mi²). There are 350 housing units at an average density of 204.8/km² (527.0/mi²). The racial makeup of the town is 96.41% White, 0.74% African American, 1.49% Native American, 0.12% Asian, 0.00% Pacific Islander, 0.25% from other races, and 0.99% from two or more races. 1.36% of the population are Hispanic or Latino of any race. There are 319 households out of which 36.4% have children under the age of 18 living with them, 59.6% are married couples living together, 10.3% have a female householder with no husband present, and 26.6% are non-families. 25.4% of all households are made up of individuals and 12.9% have someone living alone who is 65 years of age or older. The average household size is 2.53 and the average family size is 3.02. In the town the population is spread out with 27.8% under the age of 18, 12.4% from 18 to 24, 26.5% from 25 to 44, 19.6% from 45 to 64, and 13.8% who are 65 years of age or older. The median age is 33 years. For every 100 females there are 89.9 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there are 87.5 males. The median income for a household in the town is $29,000, and the median income for a family is $34,167. Males have a median income of $25,714 versus $19,000 for females. The per capita income for the town is $13,581. 11.5% of the population and 9.8% of families are below the poverty line. Out of the total people living in poverty, 19.4% are under the age of 18 and 5.5% are 65 or older.Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Diamond, Missouri."
| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
DIAMOND | Danish | Udvikling og integration af nøjagtige operationer i numerisk databehandling | Computing |
DIAMOND | Dutch | Ontwikkeling en integratie van nauwkeurige bewerkingen in numerieke gegevensverwerking | Computing |
DIAMOND | English | Development and integration of accurate operations in numerical data processing | Computing |
DIAMOND | French | Développement et intégration d'opérations de grande précision en calcul numérique | Computing |
DIAMOND | German | Entwicklung und Integration von Präzisen Operationen in die numerische Datenverarbeitung | Computing |
DIAMOND | Italian | Sviluppo ed integrazione di operazioni a grande precisione nell'elaborazione numerica di dati | Computing |
DIAMOND | Spanish | Desarrollo e integración de operaciones de alta precisión en cálculo numérico | Computing |
| DISCS | English | Diamond and Silicon Carbide Sensors | N/A |
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Synonyms: DiamondSynonyms: adamant (n), ball field (n), baseball diamond (n), infield (n). (additional references) |
| Antonym: outfield (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Angularity | Triangle, trigon, wedge; rectangle, square, lozenge, diamond; rhomb, rhombus; quadrangle, quadrilateral; parallelogram; quadrature; polygon, pentagon, hexagon, heptagon, octagon, oxygon, decagon. |
Artlessness | Rough diamond, matter of fact man; le palais de verite; enfant terrible. |
Celebration | Noun: celebration, solemnization, jubilee, commemoration, ovation, paean, triumph, jubilation, ceremony (rite); holiday, fiesta, zarabanda, revelry, feast (amusement); china anniversary, diamond anniversary, golden anniversary, silver anniversary, tin anniversary, china jubilee, diamond jubilee, golden jubilee, silver jubilee, tin jubilee, china wedding, diamond wedding, golden wedding, silver wedding, tin wedding. |
Commonalty | Goth, Vandal, Hottentot, Zulu, savage, barbarian, Yahoo; unlicked cub, rough diamond. |
Cunning | Phrase: diamond cut diamond; a' bis ou a blanc; fin contre fin; "something is rotten in the state of Denmark". |
Good Man | Brick, trump, gem, jewel, good fellow, prince, diamond in the rough, rough diamond, ugly duckling. |
Inexpedience | Tidbit; gem, gem of the first water; bijou, precious stone, jewel, pearl, diamond, ruby, brilliant, treasure; good thing; rara avis, one in a thousand. |
Infrequency | Adjective: unfrequent, infrequent; rare, rare as a blue diamond; few; scarce; almost unheard of, unprecedented, which has not occurred within the memory of the oldest inhabitant, not within one's previous experience; not since Adam. |
Jewelry | Verb: shine like a diamond. |
Adjective: bejeweled; diamond; n. | |
Diamond, brilliant, rock; beryl, emerald; chalcedony, agate, heliotrope; girasol, girasole; onyx, plasma; sard, sardonyx; garnet, lapis lazuli, opal, peridot, tourmaline, chrysolite; sapphire, ruby, synthetic ruby; spinel, spinelle; balais; oriental, oriental topaz; turquois, turquoise; zircon, cubic zirconia; jacinth, hyacinth, carbuncle, amethyst; alexandrite, cat's eye, bloodstone,diamond, brilliant, rock; beryl, emerald; chalcedony, agate, heliotrope; girasol, girasole; onyx, plasma; sard, sardonyx; garnet, lapis lazuli, opal, peridot, tourmaline, chrysolite; sapphire, ruby, synthetic ruby; spinel, spinelle; balais; oriental, oriental topaz; turquois, turquoise; zircon, cubic zirconia; jacinth, hyacinth, carbuncle, amethyst; alexandrite, cat's eye, bloodstone, hematite, jasper, moonstone, sunstone. | |
Retaliation | Give and take, blow for blow, quid pro quo, a Roland for an Oliver, measure for measure, diamond cut diamond, the biter bit, a game at which two can play; reproof valiant, retort courteous. |
Vulgarity | Rough diamond, tomboy, hoyden, cub, unlicked cub; clown; (commonalty); Goth, Vandal, Boeotian; snob, cad, gent; parvenu; frump, dowdy; slattern. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
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Screenplays | It once changed the course of a young man's life. A young man, who like this lamp, was more than what he seemed a diamond in the rough (Aladdin; writing credit: Roger Allers; Ron Clements) Well, folks, it's the end of the line for ol' Neil Diamond. That's right, I'm retiring from showbiz (Saturday Night Live; writing credit: Doug Abeles; Leo Allen) There's a phone booth down by the baseball diamond. Now nobody will see you there and it's nice and quiet (Rare Birds; writing credit: Edward Riche) Pardon my French, but Cameron is so tight that if you shoved a lump of coal up his ass, in two weeks you'd have a diamond. (Ferris Bueller's Day Off; writing credit: John Hughes) And then I realized like I was shot like I was shot with a diamond a diamond bullet right through my forehead (Apocalypse Now; writing credit: John Milius ; Francis Ford Coppola) | |
Lyrics | Diamond Girl, you sure do shine (Diamond Girl; performing artist: Seals & Crofts) I hope ya got tha diamond necklace that I sent to you (Dear Mama; performing artist: 2Pac) There's another diamond ring (What It Takes; performing artist: Aerosmith) As for me, icy gleaming pinky diamond ring (No Diggity; performing artist: Blackstreet) But I don't need no fancy cars or diamond rings (Bring It All To Me; performing artist: Blaque) | |
Clever | There are three things extremely hard: steel, a diamond, and to know one's self. (references; author: unknown) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Diamond Sexcapades (1974) De Zaak Diamond (1968) The Chocolate Covered Diamond (1967) Diamond Head (1963) | |
Song Titles | This Diamond Ring (performing artist: Gary Lewis and The Playboys) Diamond Girl (performing artist: Seals & Crofts) Lady Diamond (performing artist: Steeleye Span) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | In the crater at Diamond Head State Park. Credit: America's Coastlines. |  | Honolulu as seen from Diamond Head looking west. Credit: America's Coastlines. |
 | The Thunderbirds, the U.S. Air Force Air Demonstration Team, perform their famous diamond formation as they pass in review. (P.; photo by Staff Sgt. Kevin Gruenwald).. |  | Portal sign to Kiger Mustang viewing area near Diamond, Oregon in the Burns District. Credit: Mark Armstrong. |
 | Malheur Maar in the Diamond Craters Outstanding Natural Area near Diamond, Oregon. Credit: Mark Armstrong. |  | East elevation; section. Measured drawing delineated by Judith E. Collins, 1989. (Reproduction Number: HABS, NC-357, sheet 2 of 13) Since December 1870 this black-and-white-striped lighthouse has been helping mariners make their way through the Diamond Shoals off the North Carolina coast. At 208 feet, it is the tallest brick lighthouse in the United States. In 1999, the National Park Service moved the lighthouse 2,900 feet inland to a new site in an effort to keep it from toppling into the Atlantic Ocean. The controversial relocation project took twenty-three days to execute. The light was reactivated on November 13, 1999. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Caption: Workers Packing Diamond Disc Phonograph Records; West Orange, NJ; Unknown Date; {29.410/35} (jpg). |  | Andrew Ure. M.D. F.R.S. &c. / Engraved by C. Cook from a Photograph by W. H. Diamond. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |
 | Off Sicily, during the invasion there, 12 July 1943. Photographed from USS Ancon (AGC-4). Note that this ship lacks the pair of bulky smokestacks that were typical of Raven/Auk class minesweepers. Also note diamond marking on her side. Credit: NAVY. |  | View looking eastward from over Pearl City, with Ford Island in the middle of the view and Diamond Head in the distant center, 1 August 1942. USS Long Island (CVE-1) and USS Hornet (CV-8) are moored along Ford Island's western side, protected by anti-torpedo nets. The capsized hull of USS Utah (AG-16), a victim of the 7 December 1941 Japanese air raid, is astern of Long Island. Credit: NAVY. |
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| "Diamond 9" by Martin Kessel Commentary: "Red Arrows in their classic diamond9 at RAF Waddington 2003 Nikon D100 camera." | "Diamond head 5" by Jana Werner Commentary: "One day out in Diamond Head and some not so bad shots :) Enjoy!." |
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Bartol | Character is a diamond that scratches every other stone. |
Horace Mann | Two golden hours somewhere between sunrise and sunset. Both are set with 60 diamond minutes. No reward is offered. They are gone forever. |
| LOST. Two golden hours somewhere between sunrise and sunset. Both are set with 60 diamond minutes. No reward is offered. They are gone forever. | |
Joseph Roux | A fine quotation is a diamond in the hand of a man of wit and a pebble in the hand of a fool. |
Leighton | Adversity is the diamond dust Heaven polishes its jewels with. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson | The hues of the opal, the light of the diamond, are not to be seen if the eye is too near. |
William R. Alger | Proverbs are mental gems gathered in the diamond fields of the mind. |
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John Locke | 1690 | Again, if he would give his nuts for a piece of metal, pleased with its colour; or exchange his sheep for shells, or wool for a sparkling pebble or a diamond, and keep those by him all his life he invaded not the right of others, he might heap up as much of these durable things as he pleased; the exceeding of the bounds of his just property not lying in the largeness of his possession, but the perishing of any thing uselesly in it. (Second Treatise of Government) |
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Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | No corruption is possible with the diamond. |
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Business | Co., Ltd. these companies are recognized internationally for their quality diamond tools. (references) | |
Prominent Korean manufacturers of diamond tools include Ehwa Diamond Ind. Co., and Shinhan Diamond. (references) | ||
Diamond sales account for more than two-thirds of foreign earnings, but there has been some growth in other sectors, mainly in the agricultural sector. (references) | ||
Economic History | Botswana | Three large diamond mines have opened since independence. (references) |
South Africa | Diamond sector policy has been somewhat uneven in recent years. (references) | |
Sierra Leone | The fund was created to raise local communities' stake in the legal diamond trade. (references) | |
Human Rights | Angola | Undocumented Congolese workers in diamond fields were targeted by government or UNITA forces seeking to take control of alluvial diamond mining operations. (references) |
Sierra Leone | However, following a December clash in Koidu between disarmed CDF and RUF members and local citizens disputing access to diamond mining, some NGO's temporarily left the area until tensions declined. (references) | |
Political Economy | Congo | External economic assistance remained limited, and the State's revenues from diamond exports, its leading source of foreign exchange, declined. (references) |
Trade | South Africa | Diamonds for export must be registered with the SA Diamond Board. (references) |
Argentina | Some of the users are Sharp, Maxon, Acropolis, Canon, TDK, JVC, Audinac, Pioneer, Rates, Audio Logic, Zenith, Daewo, Talent, Goldstar, Panashiba, Nashiba, Le Roy, Carandache, Baume & Mercier, Corum, Tag Heuer, Movado, Caterpillar, Valvoline, Komatsu, Cummins, Coleman, John Deere, Home, Litte, Snapper, Asia, Kia, Isuzu, Mazda, Nissan, Case, SKF, Fag Steyr, Armstrong, Stanetex Tile, Multicolor Prem, Abco Haldex, Sigma Paximat, York, Autobombas Ford, GM, American Lafrance, Venus Carpet, Kalpakian Floget, Blue Diamond, Stronger, Yale, Skoda, Cessna, Bayer, Nike, Topper, Avia, Jovi, Canson, Stabilo, La Serenisima, Sancor, Ceres, Goodyear, Eastman, Digitar, Tecno Steel, Dallas, Cristaleria Bohemia, Heidelberg, Polar, Hempel, Crosley, Waltek, Exenel, Printex, Darling, Wega, R.N., Tecno 1, Medtronic, Akroplast, BRD, Lostra 2100 Fume, Care Quilt, Rae Flex, Zwiling, Nippon, Kaijo, Ki, Trinity, Asme, Dupont, Siderar, Sanitron, Band Ai, Alcoa, Samsonite, Daihatsu, Rhone Poulenc, Asics, Etam, Grimoldi, Boating Shoes, Sthil, Subaru, Daewoo, Cadbury de Argentina, Cafes La Virginia, Construcciones Metalurgicas Zanello, Electrolux Argentina, Ilko Argentina, Impsat, Ledesma Mattel Argentina, Multicolor Argentina, Papelera Tucuman, Pecom NEC, Philco Ushuaia, Phillips Argentina, Ralston Purina Argentina, Spazio Casa Simmons de Argentina. (references) | |
Travel | Philippines | These include the Westin Philippine Plaza, Traders Hotel, Hyatt Regency Manila, Holiday Inn Manila Pavilion, Hotel Sofitel Grand Boulevard, Manila Diamond Hotel, The Manila Hotel, Pan Pacific Hotel and The Heritage which are all located in the Bay area. (references) |
Worker Rights | Cote d'Ivoire | Children also work in family-operated artisanal gold and diamond mines. (references) |
Central African Republic | An international agency reported that children worked in the diamond fields alongside adult relatives. (references) | |
Botswana | In reality only the mineworker and diamond sorter unions may have the organizational strength to engage in collective bargaining. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| Speaker | Term | Phrase(s) |
James Monroe | 1817-1825 | Fort Diamond, at the Narrows, in the harbor of NY, will be finished this year. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| "Diamond" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 95.16% of the time. "Diamond" is used about 1,114 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 95.16% | 1,060 | 7,072 |
| Noun (proper) | 4.75% | 53 | 46,657 |
| Noun (common) | 0.09% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 1,114 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "diamond" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Diamond | First name Female | 2,000 | 2,283 |
| Diamond | Last name | 8,000 | 1,648 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
| "Diamond" is a name that signifies or is derived from: "a diamond". | |||
| The following table summarizes names derived from the word "diamond". | |||
| Name | Gender | Language | Meaning |
| Diamond | Female | English | A diamond |
| Diamantina | Female | Portuguese | A diamond |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references.
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| Country | Name | Country | Name |
| Canada | Rex Diamond Mining Corporation | India | Flawless Diamond Ltd. |
| Japan | Asahi Diamond Industrial Co., Ltd. | South Africa | GEM Diamond Mining Corporation Limited |
| USA | Diamond Equities, Inc. | ||
| (more examples...) |
Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.
1. Diamond, IL (village, FIPS 19837) 2. Diamond, MO (town, FIPS 19432) 3. Diamond, OH 4. Diamond, WV |
Expressions using "diamond": a rough diamond ♦ baseball diamond ♦ black Diamond ♦ blue Diamond ♦ Bristol diamond ♦ cut diamond ♦ cutting diamond ♦ Diamond anniversary ♦ Diamond Approach ♦ Diamond Bar ♦ Diamond beetle ♦ Diamond bird ♦ diamond bit ♦ Diamond City ♦ diamond cut diamond ♦ diamond cutter ♦ diamond cutting ♦ Diamond drill ♦ diamond drilling bit ♦ diamond dust ♦ diamond field ♦ diamond fields ♦ Diamond finch ♦ Diamond groove ♦ diamond in the rough ♦ diamond Jim ♦ diamond Jim Brady ♦ diamond jubilee ♦ diamond knurling ♦ diamond knurls ♦ Diamond Lake ♦ diamond mat ♦ diamond mesh ♦ Diamond method ♦ diamond mine ♦ diamond miner ♦ Diamond mortar ♦ diamond mounted in platinum ♦ diamond of the first water ♦ diamond pane ♦ diamond pattern ♦ diamond pattern knurling ♦ Diamond Point ♦ diamond polishing plant ♦ diamond pyramid hardness number ♦ diamond ring ♦ diamond shaped ♦ Diamond snake ♦ diamond spar ♦ Diamond Springs ♦ Diamond State ♦ diamond trade ♦ diamond wedding ♦ diamond wedding anniversary ♦ diamond wheel ♦ diamond with diamond ♦ Doped Diamond Devices and Sensors ♦ Glazier's diamond ♦ High Diamond Council ♦ industrial diamond ♦ phony diamond ♦ Pitt diamond ♦ Regent diamond ♦ rose diamond ♦ rough diamond ♦ screw with diamond knurls ♦ shine like a diamond ♦ solitaire diamond ♦ spark like a diamond ♦ Table diamond ♦ uncut diamond. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "diamond": diamond-back, diamond-bearing, diamond-bright, diamond-bullet, diamond-chips, diamond-clear, diamond-core, diamond-cutting, diamond-decked, diamond-encrusted, diamond-faced, diamond-growing, diamond-hard, diamond-impregnated, diamond-is-forever, diamond-like, diamond-lite, diamond-lonsdaleite, diamond-mesh, diamond-molybdenum, diamond-mottled, diamond-paned, diamond-patterned, Diamond-point tool, diamond-set, diamond-shaped, diamond-sharp, diamond-studded, diamond-tipped, diamond-white. | |
Ending with "diamond": D-diamond, five-diamond, non-diamond, rose-diamond, Ruff-diamond, split-diamond. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
diamond | 52,235 | diamond wedding band | 427 |
diamond ring | 5,042 | discount diamond | 408 |
diamond mine | 2,706 | diamond bracelet | 401 |
diamond engagement ring | 1,876 | diamond head | 396 |
diamond jewelry | 1,432 | pink diamond | 388 |
diamond rio | 1,421 | diamond wedding ring | 372 |
neil diamond | 1,257 | diamond watch | 349 |
diamond are forever | 1,039 | blue diamond | 349 |
loose diamond | 1,007 | diamond pendant | 346 |
diamond multimedia | 963 | diamond anniversary ring | 319 |
diamond tool | 894 | diamond shamrock | 318 |
diamond earring | 856 | certified diamond | 298 |
wholesale diamond | 805 | diamond rio lyrics | 295 |
helzberg diamond | 805 | diamond stud earring | 277 |
diamond mine game | 722 | debi diamond | 269 |
black diamond | 672 | diamond plate | 268 |
diamond bar california | 596 | ideal cut diamond | 236 |
king diamond | 545 | diamond baseball | 234 |
diamond price | 503 | man diamond ring | 224 |
diamond necklace | 429 | diamond comic | 224 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "diamond"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Afrikaans | diamant. (various references) | |
Albanian | diamant (brilliant, minikin, rock). (various references) | |
Arabic | ماسي, ماسة (brilliant, sparkler), ماس (rock), مرصع بالماس, المعين الزوايا, الماس, الديناري في ورق اللعب, ثقابة. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | ромбовиден, ромб (lozenge, rhomb, rhombus), каро, елмаз (adamant, glass cutter), брилянт (brilliant), дребен шрифт, диамантен, диамант (adamant, drop, rock, sparkler). (various references) | |
Catalan | diamant. (various references) | |
Chamorro | diamante. (various references) | |
Chinese | 金刚石, 鑽石 , 鑽 (an auger, enter, probe). (various references) | |
Czech | diamant (rock). (various references) | |
Danish | diamant. (various references) | |
Dutch | diamant. (various references) | |
Esperanto | diamanto. (various references) | |
Farsi | لوزی (Lozenge, Rhombic), زمین بیس بال , الماس . (various references) | |
Finnish | timantti (glazier's diamond), ruutukortti. (various references) | |
French | diamant, losange (diamond-shaped). (various references) | |
German | Diamant (sparkler), Stern (asterisk, astronomical, pip, star, stern), karo (check, lozenge, square). (various references) | |
Greek | διαμάντι (brilliant). (various references) | |
Hawaiian | diamant. (various references) | |
Hebrew | מעוין (lozenge, rhombus), יהלום. (various references) | |
Hungarian | gyémánt (sparkler). (various references) | |
Indonesian | intan, berlian. (various references) | |
Italian | diamante (adamant). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 金剛石 , 金剛 (adamantine, Buddhist symbol of the indestructible truth, Indra's weapon, thunderbolt, vajra), ダイバーシティー方式 (diagram, diversity receiving system, diving, dyer, schedule), ダイヤフラム圧力計 (chinese checkers, dial, dial tone, dial-up, diaphragm gauge, direct, direct mail, direct marketing, direct sales, diving, doubt, Dow, down, download, downsizing, downtown, switching from mainframe to personal computers), 内野 (infield), ギャング映画 (diamant, gambler, gambling, gangster film, gear, Greece). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | ダイヤモンド , ダイヤ (diagram, dyer, schedule), ないや (infield), こんごうせき, こんごう (adamantine, Buddhist symbol of the indestructible truth, Indra's weapon, mixing, mixture, radical sign, square root, thunderbolt, vajra), ギヤマン (diamant). (various references) | |
Korean | 다이아몬드. (various references) | |
Manx | daiman. (various references) | |
Norwegian | diamant. (various references) | |
Papiamen | djamanta. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | iamondday.(various references) | |
Portuguese | diamante (adamant, brilliant, glass-cutter), losango (lozenge, rhomb). (various references) | |
Romanian | diamant (adamant, Pearl), de diamant, romboidal (rhombic, rhomboid, rhomboidal), romb (lozenge, rhomb, rhombus), literã de corp, caro (diamonds), adamant (adamant). (various references) | |
Russian | алмаз (paragon). (various references) | |
Scottish | daoimean (a diamond). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | dijamantski, dijamant (rock). (various references) | |
Spanish | diamante (adamant, rock, sparkler), losange (lozenge). (various references) | |
Sranan | dyamanti. (various references) | |
Swedish | diamant (rock). (various references) | |
Turkish | karo (quarry, tile), elmas (diamond cutter, glass cutter, rock), camcı keskisi, beysbol oyun alanı, baklava şekli (lozenge). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | ромб (lozenge, rhomb, rhombus), алмазнонісний, алмазний, алмаз (adamant), брильянтовий, брильянт (brilliant, shiner), діамант (brilliant, sparkler). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | vỏ quít dày móng tay nhọn, kim cương vật lóng lánh, kẻ cắp bà già gặp nhau (greek), bằng kim cương; nạm kim cương hình thoi. (various references) | |
Welsh | adamant (adamant). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | adamantem. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Language | Date | Source | Ezekiel Chapter 28, Verse 13 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | En th trufh tou paradeisou tou qeou egenhqhV pan liqon crhston endedesai sardion kai topazion kai smaragdon kai anqraka kai sapfeiron kai iaspin kai argurion kai crusion kai ligurion kai acathn kai amequston kai crusoliqon kai bhrullion kai onucion kai crusiou eneplhsaV touV qhsaurouV sou kai taV apoqhkaV sou en soi af' hV hmeraV ektisqhV su |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | In deliciis paradisi Dei fuisti omnis lapis pretiosus operimentum tuum sardius topazius et iaspis chrysolitus et onyx et berillus sapphyrus et carbunculus et zmaragdus aurum opus decoris tui et foramina tua in die qua conditus es praeparata sunt |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | Was in delicis of paradise of God. Eche precious stoon thi keuerynge, sardius, topacius, and iaspis, crisolitus, and onix, and berillus, saphirus, and carbuncle, and smaragd; and gold the werk of thi fairnes, and thin hoolis ben maad redy, in the day in which thou art maad. |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | Thou hast been in Eden the garden of God; every precious stone was thy covering, the sardius, topaz, and the diamond, the beryl, the onyx, and the jasper, the sapphire, the emerald, and the carbuncle, and gold: the workmanship of thy tabrets and of thy pipes was prepared in thee in the day that thou wast created. |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | Thou hast been in Eden the garden of God; every precious stone was thy covering, the sardius, topaz, and the diamond, the beryl, the onyx, and the jasper, the sapphire, the emerald, and the carbuncle, and gold: the workmanship of thy tabrets and of thy pipes was prepared in thee in the day that thou wast created. |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | You were in Eden, the garden of God; every stone of great price was your clothing, the sardius, the topaz, and the diamond, the beryl, the onyx, and the jasper, the emerald and the carbuncle: your store-houses were full of gold, and things of great price were in you; in the day when you were made they were got ready. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Ezekiel Chapter 28, Verse 13 |
| Cebuano | Ikaw didto sa Eden, ang tanaman sa Dios; tanang mga mahal nga bato maoy imong tabon, ang sardio, ang topacio, ug ang diamante, ang berilo, ang onex, ug ang jaspe, ang zafiro, ug ang esmeralda, ug ang carbungclo, ug ang bulawan: ang binuhahatan sa imong tambol ug sa imong mga flauta diha kanimo; sa adlaw sa pag-umol kanimo sila naandam na. |
| Croatian | U Edenu, vrtu Božjem, ti življaše, resio te dragulj svaki, sard, topaz i dijamant, krizolit, oniks i jaspis, safir, smaragd i zlato. Naèinjeni bjehu bubnjevi i frule, na dan ti roðenja bjehu pripravljeni. |
| Danish | I Eden, Guds Have, var du; alle Slags Ædelsten var din Klædning, Harneol, Topas, Jaspis, Krysolit, Sjoham, Onyks, Safir, Rubin, Smaragd og Guld var på dig i indfattet og indlagt Arbejde; det var til Rede, den Dag du skabtes. |
| Dutch | Gij waart in Eden, Gods hof; alle kostelijk gesteente was uw deksel, sardisstenen, topazen en diamanten, turkooizen, sardonixstenen en jaspisstenen, saffieren, robijnen, en smaragden, en goud; het werk uwer trommelen en uwer pijpen was bij u; ten dage als gij geschapen werdt, waren zij bereid. |
| Finnish | Eedenissä, Jumalan puutarhassa, sinä olit. Peitteenäsi olivat kaikkinaiset kalliit kivet; karneolia, topaasia ja jaspista, krysoliittia, onyksia ja berylliä, safiiria, rubiinia ja smaragdia sekä kultaa olivat upotus- ja syvennystyöt sinussa, valmistetut sinä päivänä, jona sinut luotiin. |
| German | Du bist im Lustgarten Gottes und mit allerlei Edelsteinen geschmückt: mit Sarder, Topas, Demant, Türkis, Onyx, Jaspis, Saphir, Amethyst, Smaragd und Gold. Am Tage, da du geschaffen wurdest, mußten da bereitet sein bei dir deine Pauken und Pfeifen. |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | Tempat tinggalmu di Eden, taman Allah. Pakaianmu berhiaskan bermacam-macam permata: batu delima dan intan, topas, batu pirus, batu yakut, ratna, cempaka, batu nilam, zamrud dan batu alkali merah. Perhiasan emasmu pun banyak. Barang-barang itu dibuat untukmu pada hari engkau diciptakan. |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | Engkaupun adalah di dalam Eden, taman Allah itu, tudungmu dari pada pelbagai permata yang indah-indah, seperti akik dan zabarjad dan intan, firuzah, unam dan yasyib, nilam, zamrud dan yakut emas; engkau selalu disertai bunyi rebana dan bangsi; pada hari engkau naik raja maka segala perkara itu ditentukan bagimu. |
| Maori | I Erene koe, i te kari a te Atua e noho ana; ko tou hipoki ko nga kohatu utu nui katoa, ko te harariu, ko te topaha, ko te taimana, ko te perira, ko te onika, ko te hahapa, ko te hapaira, ko te emerara, ko te kapakara, ko te koura: i whakapaia a no te mahi o au timipera, o au putorino i roto i a koe i te ra i hanga ai koe. |
| Norwegian | I Eden, Guds have, bodde du; kostbare stener dekket dig, karneol, topas og diamant, krysolitt, onyks og jaspis, safir, karfunkel og smaragd, og gull; dine trommer og fløiter var i fullt arbeid hos dig; den dag du blev skapt, stod de rede. |
| Rumanian | Stqteai kn Eden, grqdina lui Dumnezeu, wi erai acoperit cu tot felul de pietre scumpe: cu sardonic, cu topaz, cu diamant, cu hrisolit, cu onix, cu iaspis, cu safir, cu rubin, cu smaragd, wi cu aur; timpanele wi flautele erau kn slujba ta, pregqtite pentru ziua cknd ai fost fqcut. |
| Swedish | I Eden, Guds lustgård, bodde du, höljd i alla slags ädla stenar: karneol, topas och kalcedon, krysolit, onyx och jaspis, safir, karbunkel och smaragd, jämte guld; du var prydd med smycken och klenoder, beredda den dag då du skapades. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "diamond": diamondback, diamondbacks, diamonded, diamondiferous, diamonding, diamonds. (additional references) | |
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"Diamond" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: daemond, daikon, daimon, daimond, daimons, damion, D'armont, D'aumont, Dayanand, Daymond, deamon, Dearmon, deiamond, demond, desmond, desmondo, Diaion, diakon, diamondy, diamone, diamono, diamont, dianion, diarmuid, Dimona, dimond, di'mond, Dinmont, diomond, Dormond, Tiamzon, Xiamen. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "diamond" (pronounced dī"mund) |
| 4 | -m u n d | almond, determined, examined, illumined, Osmund, predetermined, reexamined, summoned, undetermined. |
| 3 | -u n d | abandoned, aforementioned, aland, apportioned, auctioned, auditioned, awakened, bargained, beckoned, blackened, bludgeoned, brightened, broadened, burdened, burgeoned, buttoned, captioned, cautioned, championed, chastened, cheapened, chickened, christened, commissioned, conditioned, cordoned, cottoned, cushioned, dampened, darkened, decommissioned, deepened, destined, dimensioned, disciplined, island, jettisoned, leavened, legend, lengthened, lessened, ligand, lightened, likened, listened, livened, loosened, disheartened, disillusioned, dockland, Eland, emblazoned, emboldened, engined, enlightened, enlivened, envisioned, errand, evened, fashioned, fastened, fattened, flattened, frightened, functioned, gardened, Garland, garrisoned, glistened, happened, hardened, hastened, heartened, heightened, Highland, Holland, husband, imagined, impassioned, imprisoned, malfunctioned, margined, mentioned, millisecond, moistened, moribund, motioned, nanosecond, Norland, occasioned, opened, optioned, orphaned, overburdened, pardoned, partitioned, petitioned, poisoned, positioned, predestined, prisoned, proportioned, propositioned, questioned, quickened, rationed, reasoned, reawakened, rechristened, reckoned, reconditioned, reopened, repositioned, requisitioned, Reverend, ripened, ruined, saddened, sanctioned, seasoned, second, sectioned, sharpened, Shetland, shortened, sickened, siphoned, slackened, softened, soland, stationed, steepened, stiffened, stipend, straightened, strengthened, sweetened, thickened, thousand, threatened, tightened, toughened, unburdened, unbuttoned, unenlightened, unmentioned, unopened, unquestioned, unsanctioned, upland, vacationed, weakened, widened, wizened, worsened. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-d-d-i-m-n-o" | |
-1 letter: daimon, domain. | |
-2 letters: amido, amino, amnio, danio, monad, nomad. | |
-3 letters: amid, amin, dado, damn, dido, dona, maid, main, mano, mina, mind, moan, modi, naoi, nodi, noma. | |
-4 letters: add, ado, aid, aim, ain, ami, and, ani, dad, dam, did, dim, din, dom, don, ion, mad, man, mid, moa, mod, mon, nam, nim, nod, nom, odd. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-d-d-i-m-n-o" | |
+1 letter: bondmaid, diamonds. | |
+2 letters: bondmaids, demantoid, diamonded, dominated. | |
+3 letters: admonished, demantoids, diamonding, goddamming, goddamning, maidenhood, manifolded, ramrodding, randomized. | |
+4 letters: denominated, diamondback, endocardium, gormandised, gormandized, landlordism, maidenhoods. | |
+5 letters: demimondaine, demodulating, demodulation, diamondbacks, gourmandized, hydrodynamic, landlordisms, misdiagnosed, nondemanding, predominated. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
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