diamonds
钻石,鑽石
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- : a pure or nearly pure, extremely hard form of carbon, naturally crystallized in the isometric system.
- : a piece of this stone.
- : a transparent, flawless or almost flawless piece of this stone, especially when cut and polished, valued as a precious gem.
- : a ring or other piece of jewelry containing such a precious stone, especially an engagement ring.
- : a piece of this stone used in a drill or cutting tool.
- : a tool provided with such an uncut stone, used for cutting glass.
- : crystallized carbon, or a piece of it, artificially produced.
- : an equilateral quadrilateral, especially as placed with its diagonals vertical and horizontal; a lozenge or rhombus.
- : any rhombus-shaped figure or object oriented with its diagonals vertical and horizontal.
- : a red rhombus-shaped figure on a playing card.
- : a card of the suit bearing such figures.
- : diamonds, the suit so marked: Diamonds is trump. Diamonds are trump.
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Examples
She jumped bail to Canada, with more than $1 million in cash and diamonds, and settled in Hamilton, Ontario.
“They call me Ma because I give them money and horses and diamonds,” Mandelbaum reportedly said.
Walter Jon Williams, the popular cyberpunk author, had me at “You can make diamonds out of tequila.”
The Kimberley Process for tracking conflict diamonds officially suspended CAR one year ago.
The tangle of enormous fake diamonds resting on top of her cleavage sparkles at every flashbulb.
Only the petrol tins they took for water right and left of their pathway up the cliff; huge diamonds in the evening sun.
Half-fed men would dig for diamonds, and men sheltered by a crazy roof erect the marble walls of palaces.
Round her neck depended from a black velvet band, strings of diamonds of great size and magnificence.
Many of these testimonials of friendship and regard were of gold and silver, and set with diamonds of the finest water.
Wonderful pendants of crystallised lime reached down from the lofty roof, shining like diamonds.