(n.) A precious stone or gem excelling in brilliancy and beautiful play of prismatic colors, and remarkable for extreme hardness.
(n.) A geometrical figure, consisting of four equal straight lines, and having two of the interior angles acute and two obtuse; a rhombus; a lozenge.
(n.) One of a suit of playing cards, stamped with the figure of a diamond.
(n.) A pointed projection, like a four-sided pyramid, used for ornament in lines or groups.
(n.) The infield; the square space, 90 feet on a side, having the bases at its angles.
(n.) The smallest kind of type in English printing, except that called brilliant, which is seldom seen.
(a.) Resembling a diamond; made of, or abounding in, diamonds; as, a diamond chain; a diamond field.
Example Sentences:
(1) The most suitable condition for mucosalplasty revealed the size of the diamond particle to be 200 microns, and rotational speed to be between 12,000-20,000 rpm.
(2) Of roots treated by diamond burs, 165 stained areas were evaluated; 9 (5.5%) exhibited bacteria.
(3) Hopes that the Queen's diamond jubilee and the £9bn spent on the Olympics would lift sales over the longer term have largely been dashed as growth slows and the outlook, though robust with a growing order book, remains subdued.
(4) The pieces include a barrel-shaped diamond worth at least $5m (£3.3m) and a Cartier diamond tiara estimated to be worth more than $100,000.
(5) The diamond midfield that Klinsmann has tried to introduce of late requires Altidore to do a lot of muscling and running up front, with Clint Dempsey free to run off him when the USA attack.
(6) In the context of a simplified diamond lattice model of a six-member, Greek key beta-barrel protein that is closely related in topology to plastocyanin, the nature of the folding and unfolding pathways have been investigated using dynamic Monte Carlo techniques.
(7) In the 18 asymptomatic diamond assorters, electrophysiological studies revealed an ulnar neuropathy in two (again in the hand used for holding the eye-glass).
(8) I don’t think if you go and pass a piece of legislation that said that a diamond is a square makes diamonds squares, they’re two different things.
(9) Left ventricular compliance was evaluated by various indices (Diamond, Mirsky, Gaasch, Laird), and was found to be increased equally in the chronic and acute types.
(10) The selection of diamond-coates whetstones manufactured by Chirana for turbine drills is extended at present by two new types of toods with a different size of diamond particles.
(11) This cross-sectional study was undertaken after the discovery of cobalt-related fibrosing alveolitis and bronchial asthma in diamond polishers occupationally exposed to cobalt.
(12) In January 2007 the Guardian disclosed that BAE had used an offshore front company, Red Diamond , to secretly pay £8.4m, 30% of the radar's ostensible price, into a Swiss account.
(13) Entwistle's chances were at one stage thought to have diminished in the wake of the much-criticised BBC coverage of the Diamond Jubilee pageant, which came under his responsibility.
(14) Each component of the bonding agent (Syntac: Ivoclar Vivadent) was labelled with a fluorescent dye, the unfilled resin being light cured for 30 s with the composite restoration placed in one increment and light cured for 40 s. The samples were longitudinally sectioned using a slow speed diamond saw underwater, either immediately or 24 h post placement.
(15) Sharply escalating the sanctions regime against Tehran, the EU also froze the Iranian central bank's assets in Europe and banned gold, precious metals and diamond transactions.
(16) Logging, cattle farming and soy plantations are key, plus the increased construction of dams and road, and shifting patterns of farming for local people and mining (for diamonds, bauxite, manganese, iron, tin, copper, lead and gold).
(17) The country’s supreme court ruled that Imelda Marcos illegally acquired the items, including diamond-studded tiaras and an extremely rare 25-carat pink diamond.
(18) They contrast this with the proposal that infants may make the AB error because of immaturity of the frontal lobe system (Diamond; Diamond & Goldman-Rakic).
(19) The exposure came from the diamond cobalt discs used for polishing diamonds, which had as the hard element microdiamonds, cemented in an alloy of pure cobalt.
(20) Bob Diamond did not believe he received an instruction from Paul Tucker or that he gave an instruction to Jerry del Missier.
Infield
Definition:
(v. t.) To inclose, as a field.
(n.) Arable and manured land kept continually under crop; -- distinguished from outfield.
(n.) The diamond; -- opposed to outfield. See Diamond, n., 5.
Example Sentences:
(1) Roger Kirkby: An infield single for Papi, lol Wait until he steals a base in this series.
(2) 3.58am BST Tigers 5 - Red Sox 1, top of 8th Martinez is held in check by Doubront, who gets him to pop out on the right side of the infield - Carp makes the catch.
(3) 1.54am GMT Giants 1 - Tigers 2, Top 6th Infield hit from Marco Scutaro to start things off.
(4) Three patients died manifesting only local (infield) recurrence; five died manifesting only distant recurrence; and five developed local and distant recurrence.
(5) The infield failure rate increased as a function of stage from 9% in Stage I to 23% in Stage II and 48% in Stage III.
(6) Two down for Pedro Alvarez, who is looking for that elusive ball out of the infield.
(7) The Belgian held off Ciaran Clark to wriggle infield and spit a shot which flew through Brad Guzan’s legs at the near post.
(8) Then Frazier launches a rope that bounces off the wall in center field, McCutchen casually grabs it and throws back into the infield - the Reds third baseman has a one out double.
(9) The centre-half had collected a throw-in on 15 minutes and attempted a blind pass infield, only to dribble the ball straight to a rampaging Costa.
(10) With the infield in, Jay hit a grounder to diving second baseman Dustin Pedroia.
(11) The infield relapse-free survival at 24 months was 49% (95% confidence interval: 32-66%).
(12) Events went from bad to ridiculous for the Redbirds in the second inning, when Stephen Drew popped the ball up into the infield and catcher Yadier Molina and pitcher Adam Wainwright both moved towards the ball and then contrived to call each other off and watched the ball drop harmlessly between them.
(13) He actually gets 0-2 on Torii Hunter before wasting a pitch to make it 1-2 and he hits an infield single to Xander Bogaerts.
(14) 72 min: Downing, ostensibly on the right now, keeps wandering infield.
(15) In the 86th minute Gardner swept the ball infield and it fell to McClean 20 yards out.
(16) The survival and rate of chest infield relapse was examined in 48 patients with limited disease small cell lung cancer (LSCLC) who had achieved complete (CR) or partial response (PR) following three courses of chemotherapy.
(17) 12.19am GMT Giants 0 - Tigers 0, Top 1st Marco Scutaro pops up, and outfielder Austin Jackson has to go all the way to the edge of the infield to make the catch.
(18) Pedroia pops to right, and then Ortiz grounds one into the shallow outfield where Carpenter, playing in the shift, makes the grab and fires not in time - an infield base hit for Papi!
(19) They win a throw in and when it comes infield after a couple of "phases" Paulinho tries to chip Casillas who has to push it out from behind the line.
(20) The midfielder’s nod down went infield to the Dutchman and his lay-off was put ruthlessly beyond McGregor by Rooney.