Word Type
Diamond can be a noun, an adjective or a verb.
diamond used as a noun:
- 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.
"The saw is coated with diamond." - A gemstone made from this mineral.
"The dozen loose diamonds sparkled in the light." - A ring containing a diamond.
"What a beautiful engagement diamond." - A very pale blue color/colour.
"diamond color: " - Something that resembles a diamond.
- A rhombus, especially when oriented so that its longer axis is vertical.
- The polyiamond made up of two triangles.
- The entire field of play used in the game.
- The infield of a baseball field.
"The teams met on the diamond." - A card of the diamonds suit.
"I have only one diamond in my hand." - (plural: diamonds) One of the four suits of playing cards.
"I have the eight of diamonds in my hand."
Nouns are naming words. They are used to represent a person (soldier, Jamie), place (Germany, beach), thing (telephone, mirror), quality (hardness, courage), or an action (a run, a punch). Learn more →
diamond used as an adjective:
- made of, or containing diamond, a diamond or diamonds.
"He gave her diamond earrings." - of, relating to, or being a sixtieth anniversary.
"Today is their diamond wedding anniversary." - of, relating to, or being a seventy-fifth anniversary.
"Today is their diamond wedding anniversary."
Adjectives are are describing words. An adjective is a word that modifies a noun or pronoun (examples: small, scary, silly). Adjectives make the meaning of a noun more precise. Learn more →
diamond used as a verb:
- to adorn with or as if with diamonds
Verbs are action words and state of being words. Examples of action words are: ran, attacking, dreamed. Examples of "state of being" words are: is, was, be. Learn more →
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What type of word is diamond?
- Noun usage: The saw is coated with diamond.
- Noun usage: The dozen loose diamonds sparkled in the light.
- Noun usage: What a beautiful engagement diamond.
- Noun usage: diamond color:
- Noun usage: The teams met on the diamond.
- Noun usage: I have only one diamond in my hand.
- Noun usage: I have the eight of diamonds in my hand.
- Adjective usage: He gave her diamond earrings.
- Adjective usage: Today is their diamond wedding anniversary.
- Adjective usage: Today is their diamond wedding anniversary.
Unfortunately, with the current database that runs this site, I don't have data about which senses of diamond are used most commonly. I've got ideas about how to fix this but will need to find a source of "sense" frequencies. Hopefully there's enough info above to help you understand the part of speech of diamond, and guess at its most common usage.
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For those interested in a little info about this site: it's a side project that I developed while working on Describing Words and Related Words. Both of those projects are based around words, but have much grander goals. I had an idea for a website that simply explains the word types of the words that you search for - just like a dictionary, but focussed on the part of speech of the words. And since I already had a lot of the infrastructure in place from the other two sites, I figured it wouldn't be too much more work to get this up and running.
The dictionary is based on the amazing Wiktionary project by wikimedia. I initially started with WordNet, but then realised that it was missing many types of words/lemma (determiners, pronouns, abbreviations, and many more). This caused me to investigate the 1913 edition of Websters Dictionary - which is now in the public domain. However, after a day's work wrangling it into a database I realised that there were far too many errors (especially with the part-of-speech tagging) for it to be viable for Word Type.
Finally, I went back to Wiktionary - which I already knew about, but had been avoiding because it's not properly structured for parsing. That's when I stumbled across the UBY project - an amazing project which needs more recognition. The researchers have parsed the whole of Wiktionary and other sources, and compiled everything into a single unified resource. I simply extracted the Wiktionary entries and threw them into this interface! So it took a little more work than expected, but I'm happy I kept at it after the first couple of blunders.
Special thanks to the contributors of the open-source code that was used in this project: the UBY project (mentioned above), @mongodb and express.js.
Currently, this is based on a version of wiktionary which is a few years old. I plan to update it to a newer version soon and that update should bring in a bunch of new word senses for many words (or more accurately, lemma).