(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.
Pearl
Definition:
(n.) A fringe or border.
(v. t. ) To fringe; to border.
(n.) 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. Pearls which are round, or nearly round, and of fine luster, are highly esteemed as jewels, and compare in value with the precious stones.
(n.) Hence, figuratively, something resembling a pearl; something very precious.
(n.) Nacre, or mother-of-pearl.
(n.) A fish allied to the turbot; the brill.
(n.) A light-colored tern.
(n.) One of the circle of tubercles which form the bur on a deer's antler.
(n.) A whitish speck or film on the eye.
(n.) A capsule of gelatin or similar substance containing some liquid for medicinal application, as ether.
(n.) A size of type, between agate and diamond.
(a.) Of or pertaining to pearl or pearls; made of pearls, or of mother-of-pearl.
(v. t.) To set or adorn with pearls, or with mother-of-pearl. Used also figuratively.
(v. t.) To cause to resemble pearls; to make into small round grains; as, to pearl barley.
(v. i.) To resemble pearl or pearls.
(v. i.) To give or hunt for pearls; as, to go pearling.
Example Sentences:
(1) Based on their localisation and histology these are classified into three types (Epstein's pearls, Bohn's nodules, Dental lamina cysts).
(2) Pregnancy occurred in 14 women corresponding to a Pearl-index of 55.6.
(3) Bloody odd combination but those Orange Foam Headphones would blast those magnificent records into my developing brain over and over again" chernypyos – Björk's Human Behavior and Sinead O'Connor's Fire On Babylon: "bjork's 'human behavior' and sinead o'connor's "fire on babylon" oddly stick in my head from that one evening walking in the woods, breathing the damp air, and feeling pleasantly invisible" Pyromancer – REM – Automatic for the People Blood Sugar Sex Magic Pearl Jam - Vs RATM's first album Portishead Maxinquaye by Tricky Manic Street Preachers – Gold Against the Soul Smashing Pumpkins, Siamese Dream "I used to go to the local library and take out a CD (50p for 3 weeks!
(4) Further south is Ghadames, one of the most ancient settlements in north Africa , which Unesco calls “the pearl of the desert”.
(5) Whereas a simple tympanoplasty could cure a localized pearl, typically anterosuperior in the mesotympanum, the stapes is fast eroded (7 cases) if progression goes on.
(6) The pregnancy rate after 5 years was 3.2 or a Pearl index of 1.21 which is very good compared to other methods of contraception now available.
(7) Our plan is to have 200 Pearl accredited homes by the end of 2016 to help meet the UK's growing need for specialist dementia care centres with specially trained staff.
(8) We now have 67 Pearl accredited homes with a further 70 working through the pathway to achieve accreditation.
(9) It was established that density of one-generation concrements resembling pearl granules was far greater as compared to that of the other varieties of cholesterol concrements.
(10) use efficacy may be calculated in 2 ways: the Pearl Index (the failure rate expressed as the number of pregnancies divided by the number of months of exposure and multiplied by 1200) and the cumulative life table method.
(11) Brush the buns with the egg and sprinkle with pearl sugar.
(12) It has a Pearl index of 2.9 and must be replaced yearly.
(13) PEARL can also serve as a tool in basic research on human psychophysiology.
(14) The packing of crystals seemed to be less tight in pearl enamel.
(15) Confectionery levels ranged between 0.26 and 7.9 mg g-1, whilst contents in health products were 0.30-47.1 mg g-1, the highest values being measured for throat pearls.
(16) Twenty-four wethers had ad libitum access to a total forage diet (pearl millet forage), water and trace mineralized salt.
(17) Compared with Progestasert, LNG Nova-T showed lower pregnancy rates (Pearl Index 0.30), less risk for ectopic pregnancy, and a longer effective lifetime (7 years).
(18) The physical parameters tested were: test weight (TW), endosperm texture (TE), pearling index (IP), 1000 kernel wt (W 1000), infrared reflectance (NIR) and color (Ref).
(19) Shenzhen , the country’s first SEZ, which opened in 1980, currently harbours 300,000 migrant workers, while Pearl River Delta Economic Zone is home to 42 million people.
(20) In the mid-1990s, when the movement's influence on HTB was at its height, I visited a Chelsea church run by Nicky Lee, one of the men who converted Welby at Cambridge, and when the Holy Spirit started knocking people down, I'd hear the distinct rattle of pearls when the young women fainted to the floor.