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Definitions: Adamantine |
AdamantineAdjective1. Consisting of or having the hardness of adamant. 2. Having the hardness of a diamond. 3. Not capable of being swayed or diverted from a course; unsusceptible to persuasion; "he is adamant in his refusal to change his mind"; "Cynthia was inexorable; she would have none of him"- W.Churchill; "an intransigent conservative opposed to every liberal tendancy". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "adamantine" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1258. (references) |
Etymology: Adamantine \Ad`a*man"tine\, adjective. [Latin expression adamantinus, Greek]. (Websters 1913) |
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Chemistry | Resembling the diamond in luster. Source: European Union. (references) |
Mining | A. Like the diamond in luster b. Diamond hard. A commercial name for chilled steel shot used in the adamantine drill, which is a core-barrel type of rock-cutting drill with acutting edge fed by these shots. CF:vitreous. (references) |
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Synonyms: AdamantineSynonyms: adamant (adj), inexorable (adj), intransigent (adj). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Death | Phrase: life ebbs, life fails, life hangs by a thread; one's days are numbered, one's hour is come, one's race is run, one's doom is sealed; Death knocks at the door, Death stares one in the face; the breath is out of the body; the grave closes over one; sic itur ad astra; de mortuis nil nisi bonum; dulce et decorum est pro patria mori; honesta mors turpi vita potior; "in adamantine chains shall death be bound"; mors ultima linea rerum est; ominia mors aequat; "Spake the grisly Terror"; "the lone couch of this everlasting sleep"; nothing is certain but death and taxes. |
Hardness | Adamant, adamantine, adamantean; concrete, stony, granitic, calculous, lithic, vitreous; horny, corneous; bony; osseous, ossific; cartilaginous; hard as a rock. Noun: stiff as buckram, stiff as a poker; stiff as starch, stiff as as board. |
Strength | Adjective: strong, mighty, vigorous, forcible, hard, adamantine, stout, robust, sturdy, hardy, powerful, potent, puissant, valid. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Adamantine |
| English words defined with "adamantine": Phosgenite, Pyrargyrite ♦ White arsenic. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "adamantine": adamantine luster ♦ chilled shot. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Adamantine" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses. Dutch (enamel). |
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| "Adamantine" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Adamantine" is used about 6 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 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 100% | 6 | 143,867 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "adamantine": adamantine spar ♦ adamantine will. Additional references. | |
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| 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 |
adamantine clock | 6 |
adamantine | 5 |
adamantine seth thomas | 4 |
adamantine clock seth thomas | 4 |
adamantine clock mantel seth thomas | 3 |
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| Language | Translations for "adamantine"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | me shkëlqim diamanti, i fortë (able bodied, adamant, brawny, cast iron, cogent, decuman, Doughty, durable, endurable, enduring, fast, fierce, firm, flinty, forceful, Hale, hard, Hardy, heavy duty, high pitched, intense, intensive, keen, lancinating, nervous, oaky, potent, powerful, red blooded, refractory, resistant, robust, rocky, rough, rugged, screamy, serviceable, sharp, smart, solid, sound, spanking, stable, staunch, steely, stentorian, stiff, stout, strong, sturdy, swashing, swingeing, tenable, tenacious, tough, two-fisted, vehement, vigorous, violent, virile, virulent, well-built, well-set). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | човешко същество, твърд като желязо, твърд като елмаз, твърд (adamant, constant, crusty, decided, determined, dogged, fast, firm, flat, flinty, forceful, gritty, hard, hardhearted, immovable, obstinate, persistent, proof, rigid, rock-ribbed, rocky, sclerotic, sclerous, set, solid, stable, staunch, steadfast, steady, steely, stiff, stout, stringy, strong, sturdy, swerveless, tenacious, tinny, unfaltering, unflinching, unshakable, unshrinking, unswerving, unwavering), нудист (nudist), непреклонен (adamant, austere, cast iron, implacable, inexorable, inexpiable, inflexible, iron-bound, ironclad, relentless, rigid, rigorous, rugged, stern, unbending, uncompromising, unrelenting, unyielding), адамист. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | korund (adamantine spar, alpha-alumina, corindon, corundum, diamond spar). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | korund (adamantine spar, alpha-alumina, corindon, corundum, diamond spar). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | korundi (adamantine spar, alpha-alumina, corindon, corundum, diamond spar). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | adamantin (adamant). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | diamanthart. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | άκαμπτοσ (inflexible, obdurate, rigid, rocky, stark, stiff, stiff necked, unbending), ακαταύλητοσ, αδαμάντινοσ. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | kemény (austere, berserk, firm, flinty, gritty, hard, harsh, horny, rugged, sharp, shrewd, steely, stiff, to play hardball, tough, warm). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | adamantino (adamant). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 金剛 (Buddhist symbol of the indestructible truth, diamond, Indra's weapon, thunderbolt, vajra). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | """う (Buddhist symbol of the indestructible truth, diamond, Indra's weapon, mixing, mixture, radical sign, square root, thunderbolt, vajra). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | feer chreoi. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | adamantineay adamantino, magnetita (loadstone, magnetite), duro como diamante. (various references) adamantin (diamond-like), tare (adamant, badly, crusty, deeply, double, durable, fast, fierce, firm, firmly, greatly, hard, hollow, intense, intensely, lasting, leathery, loud, loudly, mighty, potent, powerful, rigid, robust, rocky, solid, spanking, stalwart, steady, stiff, stout, strong, strongly, sturdy, to the echo, tough, unflinching, unflinchingly, vehement, vigorous, violent), diamantin (diamantine), de nezdruncinat (indestructible), de granit (granitic). (various references) очень твердый (rock-hard). (various references) nepopustljivo. (various references) adamantino. (various references) diamant- (diamond). (various references) sarsılmaz (bedrock, immovable, stable, steadfast, steady, unshakable, unshaken, unshrinking, unwavering), çok sert. (various references) незламний (adamant, die hard, never say die), непохитний (adamant, die hard, granitic, granitical, hard and fast, immovable, impregnable, inflexible, inviolable, never say die, relentless, rocky, stable, steady, unbending, unshaken, unswerving, unyielding), загартований сталевий дріб, алмазний блиск, адамантовий, адамантин, дуже твердий. (various references) sắt đá (obdurate), gang thép (adamant, cast-iron). (various references) adamantaidd. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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"Adamantine" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: adamantane, adamatine, admantine, alabastine, salamantine. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "adamantine" (pronounced 'Ad`a*man"tine'): Acolyctine, Amethystine, Asbestine, Balaustine, Chryselephantine, Clandestine, Dentine, Destine, Diamantine, Diophantine, Dracontine, Dragantine, elephantine, Extine, Gigantine, Hellespontine, Heptine, Hydrastine, Intextine, Intine, Ketine, Lacertine, Legantine, Observantine, Osteodentine, Paytine, Plicidentine, Polycystine, Pontine, Predestine, Pristine, Procrastine, Quartine, Quintine, Sentine, Sestine, Sistine, Sittine, Thetine, Tolypeutine, Tridentine, Trochantine, Vasodentine. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: amantadine. | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-a-d-e-i-m-n-n-t" | |
-2 letters: amandine, animated, diamante. | |
-3 letters: adamant, amanita, amentia, anaemia, andante, animate, antiman, mandate, mannite, mediant. | |
-4 letters: adnate, aidman, aidmen, anadem, anemia, ataman, daimen, dentin, detain, etamin, indent, inmate, innate, intend, maenad, maiden, manana, manned, mantid, median, medina, minted, taenia, tamein, tandem, tanned, tinman, tinmen, tinned. | |
-5 letters: adman, admen, admit, aimed, amain, amend, ament, amide, amine, amnia, anent, anima, anime, antae, anted, atman, daman, demit, denim, entia, inane, inned, manat, maned, mania, manna, manta, mated, matin, meant, media, menad, menta, minae, mined, naiad, named, tamed, teind, tenia, timed, tinea, tined. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-a-d-e-i-m-n-n-t" | |
+1 letter: amantadines, mandarinate. | |
+2 letters: mandarinates. | |
+3 letters: rhadamanthine. | |
+4 letters: antidefamation. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)41 64 61 6D 61 6E 74 69 6E 65 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references).- -.. .- -- .- -. - .. -. . |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000001 01100100 01100001 01101101 01100001 01101110 01110100 01101001 01101110 01100101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)A d a m a n t i n e |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0041 0064 0061 006D 0061 006E 0074 0069 006E 0065 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)35706779678086758071 |
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