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# 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/diamond/#m1)

2) A diamond is a shape with four equal sides standing on one of its corners, like ◊ — in maths called a rhombus. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/diamond/#m2)

3) Diamonds is one of the four suits in a pack of cards, with red ◊ shapes. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/diamond/#m3)

4) In baseball, the diamond is the field with four bases. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/diamond/#m4)

5) Informally, calling someone a diamond means they are a kind, good person. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/diamond/#m5)

### 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/diamond/#x1)
- Diamond is the hardest natural material on Earth. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/diamond/#x2)
- Draw a diamond with four equal sides. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/diamond/#x3)
- I picked the queen of diamonds. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/diamond/#x4)
- The kite was shaped like a diamond. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/diamond/#x5)
- Diamonds are dug out of the ground in mines. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/diamond/#x6)
- The players ran around the baseball diamond. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/diamond/#x7)
- ‘No doubt you are a diamond?’ [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/diamond/#x8)

### 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.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/51-gemstones-and-precious-metals/2/)
- [Diamonds reach us only because rare volcanic pipes once shot them up to the surface fast.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/51-gemstones-and-precious-metals/4/)
- [Diamond is pure carbon squeezed deep in the mantle, about 150 km down, and carried up by rare volcanic pipes.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/51-gemstones-and-precious-metals/10/)
- [Until the 1700s almost all the world's diamonds came from India, from the Golconda region.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/51-gemstones-and-precious-metals/11/)
- [The Chinese printed books with carved wooden blocks over 1,100 years ago; the Diamond Sutra of 868 is the oldest dated printed book.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/10-ancient-china-paper-silk-the-silk-road-and-confucius/15/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «diamond» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/diamond/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.