Diamond vs. Pearl — What's the Difference?

Diamond is the hardest known natural material.

Pearl is an iridescent gem formed inside mollusks.

An extremely hard, highly refractive crystalline form of carbon that is usually colorless and is used as a gemstone and in abrasives, cutting tools, and other applications.

Pearl often symbolizes purity or wisdom in cultures.

A piece of jewelry containing such a gemstone.

A smooth, lustrous, variously colored mass, chiefly of calcium carbonate, formed around a grain of sand or other foreign matter inside the shell of certain bivalve mollusks and valued as a gem.

A rhombus, particularly when oriented so that one diagonal extends from left to right and the other diagonal extends from top to bottom.

A bead resembling one of these masses.

A red, lozenge-shaped figure on certain playing cards.

Something small and spherical in shape

A playing card with this figure.

Mother-of-pearl; nacre.

Diamonds (used with a sing. or pl. verb) The suit of cards represented by this figure.

One that is highly regarded for its beauty or value.

The infield.

(Printing) A type size measuring approximately five points.

The whole playing field.

A yellowish white.

Of or relating to a 60th or 75th anniversary.

To decorate or cover with pearls or beads resembling pearls.

To adorn with diamonds.

To make into the shape or color of pearls.

(uncountable) 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. Category:en:Carbon

To dive or fish for pearls or pearl-bearing mollusks.

A gemstone made from this mineral.

To form beads resembling pearls.

A ring containing a diamond.

Variant of purl2.

A very pale blue color.

A shelly concretion, usually rounded, and having a brilliant luster, with varying tints, found in the mantle, or between the mantle and shell, of certain bivalve mollusks, especially in the pearl oysters and river mussels, and sometimes in certain univalves. It is usually due to a secretion of shelly substance around some irritating foreign particle. Its substance is the same as nacre, or mother-of-pearl. Round lustrous pearls are used in jewellery.

Something that resembles a diamond.

(figuratively) Something precious.

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

A capsule of gelatin or similar substance containing liquid for e.g. medicinal application.

(geometry) The polyiamond made up of two triangles.

Nacre, or mother-of-pearl.

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

A whitish speck or film on the eye.

(baseball) The infield of a baseball field.

A fish allied to the turbot; the brill.

(card games) A card of the diamonds suit.

A light-colored tern.

A size of type, standardised as 2 point.

One of the circle of tubercles which form the bur on a deer's antler.

The size of type between brilliant and pearl, standardized as 2-point.

The size of type between diamond and agate, standardized as 5-point.

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

A fringe or border.

Of, relating to, or being a sixtieth anniversary.

(obsolete) A jewel or gem.

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

(figurative) A valuable little nugget of information; especially, an aphorism or tip#Etymology 5 that is operationally useful for decision-making.

(slang) First-rate; excellent.

The clitoris.

To adorn with or as if with diamonds

To set or adorn with pearls, or with mother-of-pearl.

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

(transitive) To cause to resemble pearls in shape; to make into small round grains.

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

(transitive) To cause to resemble pearls in lustre or iridescence.

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

(intransitive) To resemble pearl or pearls.

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

(intransitive) To hunt for pearls

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

To sink the nose of one's surfboard into the water, often on takeoff.

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

Of the nose of the surfboard: to sink in this manner.

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

A fringe or border.

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

A shelly concretion, usually rounded, and having a brilliant luster, with varying tints, found in the mantle, or between the mantle and shell, of certain bivalve mollusks, especially in the pearl oysters and river mussels, and sometimes in certain univalves. It is usually due to a secretion of shelly substance around some irritating foreign particle. Its substance is the same as nacre, or mother-of-pearl.

Very hard native crystalline carbon valued as a gem

Hence, figuratively, something resembling a pearl; something very precious.

A playing card in the minor suit of diamonds

Nacre, or mother-of-pearl.

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

A fish allied to the turbot; the brill.

The baseball playing field

A light-colored tern.

Diamond is a transparent gemstone made of carbon.

One of the circle of tubercles which form the bur on a deer's antler.

Diamond has a crystalline structure.

A whitish speck or film on the eye.

Diamond is often used in jewelry for its brilliance. He proposed with a stunning diamond engagement ring.

A capsule of gelatin or similar substance containing some liquid for medicinal application, as ether.

Diamond can also refer to a shape with four equal straight sides.

A size of type, between agate and diamond.

Of or pertaining to pearl or pearls; made of pearls, or of mother-of-pearl.

To set or adorn with pearls, or with mother-of-pearl. Used also figuratively.

To cause to resemble pearls; to make into small round grains; as, to pearl barley.

To resemble pearl or pearls.

To dive or hunt for pearls; as, to go pearling.

A smooth lustrous round structure inside the shell of a clam or oyster; much valued as a jewel

A shade of white the color of bleached bones

A shape that is small and round;

Gather pearls, from oysters in the ocean

Pearl is created as a result of layers of nacre.

Pearl can be found in various colors and shapes.

Pearl can be naturally occurring or cultivated.

A pearl is an iridescent gem formed inside certain mollusks, resulting from layers of nacre deposited around an irritant.

A diamond is a transparent gemstone composed of carbon, known for its hardness and brilliance.

Diamonds are formed deep within the Earth's mantle under extreme pressure and heat and are brought to the surface through volcanic eruptions.

Diamond is the hardest known natural material, making it harder than pearl.

Yes, pearls can be cultivated through human intervention in pearl farms, known as cultured pearls.

Pearls form when a foreign object, like a grain of sand, enters a mollusk, which secretes layers of nacre around the irritant.