Diamond

n.	1.	A precious stone or gem excelling in brilliancy and beautiful play of prismatic colors, and remarkable for extreme hardness.
	2.	A geometrical figure, consisting of four equal straight lines, and having two of the interior angles acute and two obtuse; a rhombus; a lozenge.
	3.	One of a suit of playing cards, stamped with the figure of a diamond.
	4.	(Arch.) A pointed projection, like a four-sided pyramid, used for ornament in lines or groups.
	5.	(Baseball) The infield; the square space, 90 feet on a side, having the bases at its angles.
	6.	(Print.) The smallest kind of type in English printing, except that called brilliant, which is seldom seen. Black diamond (Min.) coal; (Min.) See Carbonado. Bristol diamond See Bristol stone, under Bristol. Diamond beetle (Zool.) a large South American weevil (Entimus imperialis), remarkable for its splendid luster and colors, due to minute brilliant scales. Diamond bird (Zool.) a small Australian bird (Pardalotus punctatus, family Ampelidæ.). It is black, with white spots. Diamond drill (Engin.) a rod or tube the end of which is set with black diamonds; - used for perforating hard substances, esp. for boring in rock. Diamond finch (Zool.) a small Australian sparrow, often kept in a cage. Its sides are black, with conspicuous white spots, and the rump is bright carmine. Diamond groove (Iron Working) a groove of V-section in a roll. Diamond mortar (Chem.) a small steel mortar used for pulverizing hard substances. Diamond-point tool a cutting tool whose point is diamond-shaped. Diamond snake (Zool.) a harmless snake of Australia (Morelia spilotes); the carpet snake. Glazier's diamond a small diamond set in a glazier's tool, for cutting glass.
a.	1.	Resembling a diamond; made of, or abounding in, diamonds; as, a diamond chain; a diamond field.

Noun	1.	diamond - a transparent piece of diamond that has been cut and polished and is valued as a precious gem
	2.	diamond - very hard native crystalline carbon valued as a gem Synonyms: adamant
	3.	diamond - a playing card in the minor suit of diamonds
	4.	diamond - the area of a baseball field that is enclosed by 3 bases and home plate Synonyms: baseball diamond, infield
	5.	diamond - the baseball playing field Synonyms: ball field, baseball field

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]).

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