Word Finder - diamond

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A glimmering glass-like mineral that is an allotrope of carbon in which each atom is surrounded by four others in the form of a tetrahedron.

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The saw is coated with diamond.

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A gemstone made from this mineral.

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The dozen loose diamonds sparkled in the light.

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A ring containing a diamond.

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What a beautiful engagement diamond.

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A very pale blue color/colour.

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Something that resembles a diamond.

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A rhombus, especially when oriented so that its longer axis is vertical.

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The polyiamond made up of two triangles.

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The entire field of play used in the game.

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The infield of a baseball field.

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The teams met on the diamond.

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A card of the diamonds suit.

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I have only one diamond in my hand.

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A size of type, standardised as 4 1/2 point.

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To adorn with or as if with diamonds

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Made of, or containing diamond, a diamond or diamonds.

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He gave her diamond earrings.

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Of, relating to, or being a sixtieth anniversary.

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Today is their diamond wedding anniversary.

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Of, relating to, or being a seventy-fifth anniversary.

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Today is their diamond wedding anniversary.

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First-rate; excellent.

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He's a diamond geezer.

A diamond is the hardest, most resilient, most beautiful gem of all.

The jeweler said it is the most perfect diamond he has ever seen.

Inside sparkled a diamond choker with an unusually worn, plain charm of a half-sun, half-moon pierced by an arrow.

Going down on one knee, he fished in his shirt pocket and came out with a diamond engagement ring.

Jackson picked up the diamond and held it to the light.

This should be the first and last diamond you create.

The box held a beautiful diamond ring encircled with deep, ruby baguettes.

Do you know a bar named Willoughby's on Diamond Street?

Many descriptions of gems and gem stones have been discovered in various parts of the Australian states, but systematic search has been made principally for the diamond and the noble opal.

Now we know the heats of formation of carbon dioxide (from diamond) and of liquid water to be 94300 cal.

As a reward for his conspicuous services in connexion with the Chinese War Ito was made a marquis, and in 1897 he accompanied Prince Arisugawa as a joint representative of the Mikado at the Diamond Jubilee of Queen Victoria.

Both the war of1899-1902and the grant of self-government to the new colonies were necessary preliminaries to the success of any unification scheme, but the causes which now led to the question of closer union being raised were not political but economic. Since the development of the diamond meat for and gold mining industries the coast colonies had Closer unduly neglected their own resources and had relied Union.

In 1526 the city was 'captured by the emperor Baber, the famous Koh-i-noor diamond being part of the loot; and it was here that Baber announced that his invasion was to be a permanent conquest, and not a mere temporary inroad.

He was the younger son of Robert Pitt of Boconnoc, Cornwall, and grandson of Thomas Pitt (1653-1726), governor of Madras, who was known as "Diamond" Pitt, from the fact of his having sold a diamond of extraordinary size to the regent Orleans for something like £135,000.

At Genoa he investigated the electricity of the torpedo-fish, and at Florence, by the aid of the great burning-glass in the Accademia del Cimento, he effected the combustion of the diamond in oxygen and decided that, beyond containing a little hydrogen, it consisted of pure carbon.

The visit of the Australian premiers to England on the occasion of Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee gave an additional impetus to federation, and in September 1897 the convention reassembled in Sydney and discussed the modifications in the constitution which had been suggested in the local parliaments.

The diamond beetle of South America, Entimus imperialis, is' another singularly beautiful weevil; its colour is black, studded with spangles of golden green.

The municipal borough is under a lord mayor (the title was conferred in 1897 on the occasion of Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee), 16 aldermen and 48 councillors.

These gratings consist of pieces of metal or glass ruled by means of a diamond point with a very large number of parallel lines, on the extreme accuracy of which their efficiency depends.

Flour-milling is an industry second only in importance to that of diamond mining (see below).

The most valuable of the minerals is the diamond, found in Griqualand West and also at Hopetown, and other districts along the Orange river.

From the De Beers mines at Kimberley have come larger numbers of diamonds than from all the other diamond mines of the world combined.

In addition, since 1888 a special court has been held at Kimberley for trying cases relating to illicit diamond buying (" I.D.B.").

The chief papers are the Cape Times, Cape Argus, South African News (Bond), both daily and weekly; the Diamond Fields Advertiser (Kimberley) and the Eastern Province Herald (Port Elizabeth).

This annexation was a consequence of the discovery there of rich diamond mines, an event which was destined to have far-reaching results.

In 1870 Dutoitspan and Bultfontein diamond mines were discovered, and in 1871 the still richer mines of Kimberley and De Beers.

At the time of the beginning of the diamond industry, not only the territory of Cape Colony and the Boer Republics, but all South Africa, was in a very depressed condition.

The diamond industry therefore offered considerable attractions, especially to colonists of British origin.

By the end of 1871 a large population had already gathered at the diamond fields, and immigration continued steadily, bringing new-comers to the rich fields.

Among the first to seek a fortune at the diamond fields was Cecil Rhodes.

Griqualand West, which included the diamond fields, was now incorporated as a portion of Cape Colony.

One of the principal and most beneficent results of the discovery and development of the diamond mines was the great impetus which it gave to railway extension.

Rhodes opposed the native liquor traffic, and at the risk of offending some of his supporters among the brandy-farmers of the western provinces, he suppressed it entirely on the diamond mines, and restricted it as far as he was able in the native reserves and territories.

Proclamations by the Transvaal and Free State annexing portions of Cape Colony were actually issued on the 18th of October, and included British Bechuanaland and Griqualand West, with the diamond fields.

The depression was accentuated by the financial crisis in America, which affected adversely the wool trade, and in a more marked degree the diamond trade, leading to the partial stoppage of the Kimberley mines.

Williams, The Diamond Mines of South Africa, revised ed.

Mount Hood (11,225 ft.), which is the highest point in the state, Mount Jefferson (10,200 ft.), the Three Sister Peaks, Mount Adams, Bachelor Mountain, and Diamond Peak (8807 ft.) all have one or more glaciers on their sides.

Diamond cutting is carried on and the town has also foundries, breweries, and in the neighborhood extensive powder-mills.

The earlier English spoon-handles terminate in an acorn, plain knob or a diamond; at the end of the 16th century the baluster and seal ending becomes common, the bowl being "fig-shaped."

Forestry and mining are both undeveloped, but the syndicate which since 1908 has worked the Kasai diamond area of the Belgian Congo has also concessions on the Portuguese side, and in 1920 the output of diamonds from Angola was estimated at 120,000 carats.

Prince Arisugawa represented Japan in England together with Marquis Ito at the Diamond Jubilee (1897), and in 1905 was again received there as the king's guest.

During his residence in India Pitt bought for about £20,000 the fine diamond which was named after him; in 1717 he sold this to the regent of France, Philip duke of Orleans, for -180,000 or, according to another account, for £135,000.

His accession to office was marked by speeches breathing a new spirit of imperial consolidation, embodied either in suggestions for commercial union or in more immediately practicable proposals for improving the "imperial estate"; and at the Diamond Jubilee of 1897 the visits of the colonial premiers to London emphasized and confirmed the new policy, the fruits of which were afterwards seen in the cordial support given by the colonies in the Boer War.

The diamond has the requisite optical properties, its index of refraction being about i 6 times as large as that of ordinary glass.

The spherical aberration of a diamond lens can be brought down to one-ninth of a glass lens of equal focus.

Among the birds of the island are the eagle, hawk, petrel, owl, finch, peewit, diamond bird, fire-tail, robin, emu-wren, crow, swallow, magpie, blackcap, goatsucker, quail, ground dove, parrot, lark, mountain thrush, cuckoo, wattlebird, whistling duck, honeybird, Cape Barren goose, penguin duck, waterhen, snipe, albatross and laughing jackass.

Disappointed her friend was leaving for somewhere across the world, she'd bought them matching necklaces featuring whimsical half moons in rose gold with a single, small, sparkling diamond of a star embedded in the moon.

There in the middle of the tray where the blood and fire had been, sat a brilliant diamond.

This is the diamond our blood made.

There are aesthetic factors to bear in mind and your diamond wedding ring holds also a deeper significance.