Diamond
A precious stone or gem excelling in brilliancy and beautiful play of prismatic colors, and remarkable for extreme hardness.
A geometrical figure, consisting of four equal straight lines, and having two of the interior angles acute and two obtuse; a rhombus; a lozenge.
One of a suit of playing cards, stamped with the figure of a diamond.
A pointed projection, like a four-sided pyramid, used for ornament in lines or groups.
The infield; the square space, 90 feet on a side, having the bases at its angles.
The smallest kind of type in English printing, except that called brilliant, which is seldom seen.
Resembling a diamond; made of, or abounding in, diamonds; as, a diamond chain; a diamond field.
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Diamond Quotations
Better a diamond with a flaw than a pebble without.
Confucius
There are three things extremely hard: steel, a diamond, and to know one's self.
Benjamin Franklin
I never worry about diets. The only carrots that interest me are the number you get in a diamond.
Mae West
Nature has made a pebble and a female. The lapidary makes the diamond, and the lover makes the woman.
Victor Hugo
Wit must be foiled by wit: cut a diamond with a diamond.
William Congreve
Anyone can be confident with a full head of hair. But a confident bald man - there's your diamond in the rough.
Larry David
Lost, yesterday, somewhere between sunrise and sunset, two golden hours, each set with sixty diamond minutes. No reward is offered for they are gone forever.
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.
Horace Mann
Adversity is the diamond dust Heaven polishes its jewels with.
Thomas Carlyle
I really think that American gentlemen are the best after all, because kissing your hand may make you feel very good but a diamond and a sapphire bracelet lasts forever.
Anita Loos
Diamond Translations
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diamond in French is diamant
diamond in German is Stern, Diamant
diamond in Italian is diamante
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