Carbonado vs. Diamond

Carbonadoverb

To cut (meat) across for frying or broiling; to cut or slice and broil.

‘A short-legged hen daintily carbonadoed.’;

Diamondnoun

Something that resembles a diamond.

Carbonadoverb

To cut or hack, as in fighting.

‘I'll so carbonado your shanks.’;

Diamondnoun

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

Carbonadonoun

A black variety of diamond, found in Brazil, and used for diamond drills. It occurs in irregular or rounded fragments, rarely distinctly crystallized, with a texture varying from compact to porous.

Diamondnoun

(geometry) The polyiamond made up of two triangles.

Carbonadonoun

an inferior dark diamond used in industry for drilling and polishing

Diamondnoun

(baseball) The entire field of play used in the game.

Carbonadonoun

a piece of meat (or fish) that has been scored and broiled

Diamondnoun

(baseball) The infield of a baseball field.

‘The teams met on the diamond.’;

Carbonado

Carbonado, commonly known as black diamond, is one of the toughest forms of natural diamond. It is an impure, high-density, micro-porous form of polycrystalline diamond consisting of diamond, graphite, and amorphous carbon, with minor crystalline precipitates filling pores and occasional reduced metal inclusions.

Diamondnoun

(card games) A card of the diamonds suit.

‘I have only one diamond in my hand.’;

Diamondnoun

A size of type, standardised as 4½ point.

Diamondnoun

The size of type between brilliant and pearl, standardized as 4½-point.

Diamondadjective

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

‘He gave her diamond earrings.’;

Diamondadjective

of, relating to, or being a sixtieth anniversary.

‘Today is their diamond wedding anniversary.’;

Diamondadjective

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

‘Today is their diamond wedding anniversary.’;

Diamondadjective

(slang) First-rate; excellent.

‘He's a diamond geezer.’;

Diamondverb

to adorn with or as if with diamonds

Diamondnoun

A precious stone or gem excelling in brilliancy and beautiful play of prismatic colors, and remarkable for extreme hardness.

Diamondnoun

A geometrical figure, consisting of four equal straight lines, and having two of the interior angles acute and two obtuse; a rhombus; a lozenge.

Diamondnoun

One of a suit of playing cards, stamped with the figure of a diamond.

Diamondnoun

A pointed projection, like a four-sided pyramid, used for ornament in lines or groups.

Diamondnoun

The infield; the square space, 90 feet on a side, having the bases at its angles.

Diamondnoun

The smallest kind of type in English printing, except that called brilliant, which is seldom seen.

Diamondadjective

Resembling a diamond; made of, or abounding in, diamonds; as, a diamond chain; a diamond field.

Diamondnoun

a transparent piece of diamond that has been cut and polished and is valued as a precious gem

Diamondnoun

very hard native crystalline carbon valued as a gem

Diamondnoun

a playing card in the minor suit of diamonds

Diamondnoun

the area of a baseball field that is enclosed by 3 bases and home plate

Diamondnoun

the baseball playing field

Diamondnoun

a precious stone consisting of a clear and colourless crystalline form of pure carbon, the hardest naturally occurring substance

‘a diamond ring’;

Diamondnoun

a tool with a small diamond for cutting glass.

Diamondnoun

an excellent or very special person or thing

‘Fred's a diamond’;

Diamondnoun

a figure with four straight sides of equal length forming two opposite acute angles and two opposite obtuse angles; a rhombus

‘a sweater with a pale-blue diamond pattern’;

Diamondnoun

one of the four suits in a conventional pack of playing cards, denoted by a red diamond.

Diamondnoun

a card of the suit of diamonds

‘she led a losing diamond’;

Diamondnoun

the area delimited by the four bases of a baseball field, forming a square shape.

Diamondnoun

a baseball field.

Diamond

Diamond is a form of the element carbon with its atoms arranged in a crystal structure called diamond cubic. At room temperature and pressure, another solid form of carbon known as graphite is the chemically stable form of carbon, but diamond almost never converts to it.