diamond

«diamond» in Mova's school dictionary: a very hard, clear, sparkling precious stone — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun (diamond, diamonds); adjective (diamond)

meaning for a pupil

1) A diamond is a very hard, clear, sparkling precious stone. tree →

2) A diamond is a shape with four equal sides standing on one of its corners, like ◊ — in maths called a rhombus. tree →

3) Diamonds is one of the four suits in a pack of cards, with red ◊ shapes. tree →

4) In baseball, the diamond is the field with four bases. tree →

5) Informally, calling someone a diamond means they are a kind, good person. tree →

sense in the lessons

In science, diamond is the hardest natural material and is made of carbon. In maths, a diamond shape is a rhombus (or a square turned on its corner). In everyday life: diamond rings, playing cards, kites. Phrases: «diamond ring», «diamond shape», «the seven of diamonds».

examples

• She wore a ring with a small diamond. tree →
• Diamond is the hardest natural material on Earth. tree →
• Draw a diamond with four equal sides. tree →
• I picked the queen of diamonds. tree →
• The kite was shaped like a diamond. tree →
• Diamonds are dug out of the ground in mines. tree →
• The players ran around the baseball diamond. tree →
• ‘No doubt you are a diamond?’ tree →

note

Pronounced «DY-mund» or «DY-a-mund». Countable: «a diamond», «diamonds». In maths, the proper name for the shape is «rhombus»: four equal sides, opposite sides parallel, opposite angles equal; a square is a special rhombus. A deck has 13 diamonds out of 52 cards (one quarter).

In the corpora

• Think of a grandmother's ring with a sparkling diamond.
• Diamonds reach us only because rare volcanic pipes once shot them up to the surface fast.
• Diamond is pure carbon squeezed deep in the mantle, about 150 km down, and carried up by rare volcanic pipes.
• Until the 1700s almost all the world's diamonds came from India, from the Golconda region.
• The Chinese printed books with carved wooden blocks over 1,100 years ago; the Diamond Sutra of 868 is the oldest dated printed book.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «diamond» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.