diamond

Word family

1 STONE[countableC, uncountableU]DCJ a clear, very hard valuable stone, used in jewellery and in industry 钻石，金刚钻

a diamond engagement ring

订婚钻戒

2 SHAPE[countableC]CF a shape with four straight but sloping sides of equal length, with one point facing directly up and the other directly down 菱形

Cut the cookie dough into diamonds.

把做曲奇饼干的面团切成菱形。

3 ON A PLAYING CARD

a) DGC diamonds one of the four suits (=types of cards) in a set of playing cards, which has the design of a red diamond shape on it 〔扑克牌中的〕方块

two/queen etc of diamonds

the ace of diamonds

方块A

b) [countableC]DGC a card from this suit 〔一张〕方块牌

You have to play a diamond.

你要出一张方块。

4 SPORTS FIELD[countableC]

a) DSBthe area in a baseball field that is within the diamond shape formed by the four bases 〔棒球场的〕内场

b) DSBthe whole playing field used in baseball 棒球场

Examples from the Corpus

diamond• a diamond necklace• The beautiful diamond ring had gone.• It was like Aladdin's cave with the Seven Dwarves diamond mine thrown in.• We had beautiful chandeliers, women in diamonds and mink stoles.• After washing and change of lap paper, polishing is continued with 1 µm diamond.• the king of diamonds• Weighed down with rubies, sapphires, emeralds, pearls, diamonds.• Because the diamond is absorbing blue light, it appears yellow in ordinary light.• With clubs wide open to make the contract you're going to need to try and bring the diamonds in without loss.

Origin diamond

(1200-1300) Old French diamant “hard metal, diamond”, from Greek adamas; → ADAMANT

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