Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter D - Page 46
Diamond (n.) One of a suit of playing cards, stamped with the figure of a diamond.
Diamond (n.) (Arch.) A pointed projection, like a four-sided pyramid, used for ornament in lines or groups.
Diamond (n.) (Baseball) The infield; the square space, 90 feet on a side, having the bases at its angles.
Diamond (n.) (Print.) The smallest kind of type in English printing, except that called brilliant, which is seldom seen.
Black diamond, coal; (Min.) See Carbonado.
Bristol diamond. See Bristol stone, under Bristol.
Diamond beetle (Zool.), A large South American weevil ({Entimus imperialis), remarkable for its splendid luster and colors, due to minute brilliant scales.
Diamond bird (Zool.), A small Australian bird ({Pardalotus punctatus, family Ampelid[ae].). It is black, with white spots.
Diamond drill (Engin.), A rod or tube the end of which is set with black diamonds; -- used for perforating hard substances, esp. for boring in rock.
Diamond finch (Zool.), A small Australian sparrow, often kept in a cage. Its sides are black, with conspicuous white spots, and the rump is bright carmine.
Diamond groove (Iron Working), A groove of V-section in a roll.
Diamond mortar (Chem.), A small steel mortar used for pulverizing hard substances.
Diamond-point tool, A cutting tool whose point is diamond-shaped.
Diamond snake (Zool.), A harmless snake of Australia ({Morelia spilotes); the carpet snake.
Glazier's diamond, A small diaond set in a glazier's tool, for cutting glass.
Diamond (a.) Resembling a diamom nd; made of, or abounding in, diamonds; as, a diamond chain; a diamond field. Diamond anniversary
Diamond (n.) A transparent piece of diamond that has been cut and polished and is valued as a precious gem.
Diamond (n.) Very hard native crystalline carbon valued as a gem [syn: diamond, adamant].
Diamond (n.) A parallelogram with four equal sides; an oblique-angled equilateral parallelogram [syn: rhombus, rhomb, diamond].
Diamond (n.) A playing card in the minor suit that has one or more red rhombuses on it; "he led a small diamond"; "diamonds were trumps".
Diamond (n.) The area of a baseball field that is enclosed by 3 bases and home plate [syn: baseball diamond, diamond, infield] [ant: outfield].
Diamond (n.) The baseball playing field [syn: ball field, baseball field, diamond].
Diamond, () Development and Integration of Accurate Mathematical Operations in Numerical Data-processing (ESPRIT).
Diamond, () One of five pedagogical languages based on Markov algorithms, used in "Nonpareil, a Machine Level Machine Independent Language for the Study of Semantics", B. Higman, ULICS Intl Report No ICSI 170, U London (1968). (cf. Brilliant, Nonpareil, Pearl[3], Ruby[2]).
Diamond, () A precious gem (Heb. yahalom', in allusion to its hardness), otherwise unknown, the sixth, i.e., the third in the second row, in the breastplate of the high priest, with the name of Naphtali engraven on it (Ex. 28:18; 39:11; R.V. marg., "sardonyx.")
Diamond, () A precious stone (Heb. shamir', a sharp point) mentioned in Jer. 17:1. From its hardness it was used for cutting and perforating other minerals. It is rendered "adamant" (q.v.) in Ezek. 3:9, Zech. 7:12. It is the hardest and most valuable of precious stones.
Diamond, IL -- U.S. village in Illinois
Population (2000): 1393
Housing Units (2000): 597
Land area (2000): 1.582375 sq. miles (4.098332 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 1.582375 sq. miles (4.098332 sq. km)
FIPS code: 19837
Located within: Illinois (IL), FIPS 17
Location: 41.287699 N, 88.253824 W
ZIP Codes (1990):
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
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Diamond, MO -- U.S. town in Missouri
Population (2000): 807
Housing Units (2000): 350
Land area (2000): 0.664080 sq. miles (1.719958 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 0.664080 sq. miles (1.719958 sq. km)
FIPS code: 19432
Located within: Missouri (MO), FIPS 29
Location: 36.994573 N, 94.313826 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 64840
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Headwords:
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Diamond-back (n.) (Zool.) The salt-marsh terrapin of the Atlantic coast ({Malacoclemmys palustris).
Diamonded (a.) Having figures like a diamond or lozenge.
Diamonded (a.) Adorned with diamonds; diamondized. -- Emerson.
Diamondize (v. t.) To set with diamonds; to adorn; to enrich. [R.]
Diamondizing of your subject. -- B. Jonson.
Diamond-shaped (a.) Shaped like a diamond or rhombus.
Diamylene (n.) (Chem.) A liquid hydrocarbon, C10H20, of the ethylene series, regarded as a polymeric form of amylene.
Dian (a.) Diana. [Poetic]
Diana (n.) (Myth.) The daughter of Jupiter and Latona; a virgin goddess who presided over hunting, chastity, and marriage; -- identified with the Greek goddess Artemis.
Diandria (n. pl.) (Bot.) A Linnaean class of plants having two stamens.
Diandrian (a.) Diandrous.
Diandrous (n.) (Bot.) Of or pertaining to the class Diandria; having two stamens.
Dianium (n.) (Chem.) Same as Columbium. [Obs.]
Dianoetic (a.) (Metaph.) Pertaining to the discursive faculty, its acts or products.
I would employ . . . dianoetic to denote the operation of the discursive, elaborative, or comparative faculty. -- Sir W. Hamilton.
Dianoetic (a.) Proceeding to a conclusion by reason or argument rather than intuition [syn: dianoetic, discursive].
Dianoialogy (n.) The science of the dianoetic faculties, and their operations. -- Sir W. Hamilton.
Dianthus (n.) (Bot.) A genus of plants containing some of the most popular of cultivated flowers, including the pink, carnation, and Sweet William.
Dianthus (n.) Carnations and pinks [syn: Dianthus, genus Dianthus].
Diapase (n.) Same as Diapason. [Obs.]
A tuneful diapase of pleasures. -- Spenser.
Diapasm (n.) Powdered aromatic herbs, sometimes made into little balls and strung together. [Obs.]
Diapason (n.) (Gr. Mus.) The octave, or interval which includes all the tones of the diatonic scale. Compare disdiapason.
Diapason (n.) Concord, as of notes an octave apart; harmony.
The fair music that all creatures made . . . In perfect diapason. -- Milton.
Diapason (n.) The entire compass of tones ; the entire compass of tones of a voice or an instrument.
Through all the compass of the notes it ran, The diapason closing full in man. -- Dryden.
Diapason (n.) A standard of pitch; a tuning fork; as, the French normal diapason.
Diapason (n.) One of certain stops in the organ, so called because they extend through the scale of the instrument. They are of several kinds, as open diapason, stopped diapason, double diapason, and the like.
Diapason (n.) Either of the two main stops on a pipe organ [syn: diapason, diapason stop].
Diapedesis (n.) (Med.) The passage of the corpuscular elements of the blood from the blood vessels into the surrounding tissues, without rupture of the walls of the blood vessels.
Diapedesis (n.) Passage of blood cells (especially white blood cells) through intact capillary walls and into the surrounding tissue.
Diapente (n.) (Anc. Mus.) The interval of the fifth.
Diapente (n.) (Med.) A composition of five ingredients.
Diaper (n.) Any textile fabric (esp. linen or cotton toweling) woven in diaper pattern. See 2.
Diaper (n.) (Fine Arts) Surface decoration of any sort which consists of the constant repetition of one or more simple figures or units of design evenly spaced.
Diaper (n.) A towel or napkin for wiping the hands, etc.
Let one attend him with a silver basin, . . . Another bear the ewer, the third a diaper. -- Shak.
Diaper (n.) An infant's breechcloth.
Diaper (v. t.) To ornament with figures, etc., arranged in the pattern called diaper, as cloth in weaving. "Diapered light." -- H. Van Laun.
Engarlanded and diapered With in wrought flowers. -- Tennyson.
Diaper (v. t.) To put a diaper on (a child).
Diaper (v. i.) To draw flowers or figures, as upon cloth. "If you diaper on folds." -- Peacham.
Diaper (n.) Garment consisting of a folded cloth drawn up between the legs and fastened at the waist; worn by infants to catch excrement [syn: diaper, nappy, napkin].
Diaper (n.) A fabric (usually cotton or linen) with a distinctive woven pattern of small repeated figures.
Diapering (n.) Same as Diaper, n., 2.
Diaphane (n.) A woven silk stuff with transparent and colored figures; diaper work.
Diaphaned (a.) Transparent or translucent. [R.]
Diaphaneity (n.) The quality of being diaphanous; transparency; pellucidness.
Diaphanic (a.) Having power to transmit light; transparent; diaphanous.
Diaphanie (n.) The art of imitating stained glass with translucent paper.
Diaphanometer (n.) An instrument for measuring the transparency of the air.
Diaphanoscope (n.) (Photog.) A dark box constructed for viewing transparent pictures, with or without a lens.
Diaphanotype (n.) (Photog.) A colored photograph produced by superimposing a translucent colored positive over a strong uncolored one.
Diaphanous (a.) 透明的，精致的 Allowing light to pass through, as porcelain; translucent or transparent; pellucid; clear.
Another cloud in the region of them, light enough to be fantastic and diaphanous. -- Landor.
Diaphanous (a.) So thin as to transmit light; "a hat with a diaphanous veil"; "filmy wings of a moth"; "gauzy clouds of dandelion down"; "gossamer cobwebs"; "sheer silk stockings"; "transparent chiffon"; "vaporous silks" [syn: {diaphanous}, {filmy}, {gauzy}, {gauze-like}, {gossamer}, {see-through}, {sheer}, {transparent}, {vaporous}, {vapourous}, {cobwebby}].
Diaphanously (adv.) Translucently.
Diaphemetric (a.) (Physiol.) Relating to the measurement of the tactile sensibility of parts; as, diaphemetric compasses. -- Dunglison. Diaphonic
Diaphonic (a.) Alt. of Diaphonical.
Diacoustics (n.) That branch of natural philosophy which treats of the properties of sound as affected by passing through different mediums; -- called also diaphonics. See the Note under Acoustics. Diacritic
Diaphonical (a.) Diacoustic.
Diaphonics (n.) The doctrine of refracted sound; diacoustics.
Diaphoresis (n.) Perspiration, or an increase of perspiration.
Diaphoretic (a.) Alt. of Diaphoretical.
Diaphoretical (a.) Having the power to increase perspiration.
Diaphoretic (n.) (Med.) A medicine or agent which promotes perspiration.
Note: Diaphoretics differ from sudorifics; the former only increase the insensible perspiration, the latter excite the sensible discharge called sweat. -- Parr.
Diaphoretic (a.) Inducing perspiration [syn: diaphoretic, sudorific].
Diaphoretic (n.) Used to produce perspiration.
Diaphote (n.) (Elec.) An instrument designed for transmitting pictures by telegraph. -- Fallows.
Diaphragm (n.) A dividing membrane or thin partition, commonly with an opening through it.
Diaphragm (n.) (Anat.) The muscular and tendinous partition separating the cavity of the chest from that of the abdomen; the midriff.
Diaphragm (n.) (Zool.) A calcareous plate which divides the cavity of certain shells into two parts.
Diaphragm (n.) (Opt.) A plate with an opening, which is generally circular, used in instruments to cut off marginal portions of a beam of light, as at the focus of a telescope.
Diaphragm (n.) (Mach.) A partition in any compartment, for various purposes.
Diaphragm pump, One in which a flexible diaphragm takes the place of a piston.
Diaphragm (n.) A mechanical device in a camera that controls size of aperture of the lens; "the new cameras adjust the diaphragm automatically" [syn: diaphragm, stop].
Diaphragm (n.) (Anatomy) A muscular partition separating the abdominal and thoracic cavities; functions in respiration [syn: diaphragm, midriff].
Diaphragm (n.) A contraceptive device consisting of a flexible dome-shaped cup made of rubber or plastic; it is filled with spermicide and fitted over the uterine cervix [syn: diaphragm, pessary, contraceptive diaphragm].
Diaphragm (n.) Electro-acoustic transducer that vibrates to receive or produce sound waves.
Diaphragm (n.) A muscular partition separating disorders of the chest from disorders of the bowels.
Diaphragmatic (a.) Pertaining to a diaphragm; as, diaphragmatic respiration; the diaphragmatic arteries and nerves.
Diaphysis (n.) (Bot.) An abnormal prolongation of the axis of inflorescence.
Diaphysis (n.) (Anat.) The shaft, or main part, of a bone, which is first ossified.
Diaphysis (n.) The main (mid) section of a long bone [syn: diaphysis, shaft].
Diapnoic (a.) (Med.) Slightly increasing an insensible perspiration; mildly diaphoretic.
Diapnoic (n.) A gentle diaphoretic.
Diapophysical (a.) (Anat.) Pertaining to a diapophysis.
Diapophysis (n.) (Anat.) The dorsal transverse, or tubercular, process of a vertebra. See Vertebra.
Diarchy (n.) A form of government in which the supreme power is vested in two persons. Diarial
Diarchy (n.) A form of government having two joint rulers [syn: diarchy, dyarchy].
Diarial (a.) Alt. of Diarian.
Diarian (a.) Pertaining to a diary; daily.
Diarist (n.) 記日記的人；負日記專責的人；日記作者 One who keeps a diary. Diarrhea
Diarist (n.) Someone who keeps a diary or journal [syn: diarist, diary keeper, journalist].
Diarrhea (n.) 【醫】腹瀉 Alt. of Diarrhoea.
Diarrhoea (n.) (Med.) A morbidly frequent and profuse discharge of loose or fluid evacuations from the intestines, without tenesmus; a purging or looseness of the bowels; a flux. Diarrheal
Diarrhea (n.) Frequent and watery bowel movements; can be a symptom of infection or food poisoning or colitis or a gastrointestinal tumor [syn: {diarrhea}, {diarrhoea}, {looseness of the bowels}, {looseness}].
Diarrheal (a.) Alt. of Diarrhoeal.
Diarrhoeal (a.) (Med.) Of or pertaining to diarrhea; like diarrhea. Diarrhetic
Diarrheal (a.) Of or relating to diarrhea [syn: diarrheal, diarrhoeal, diarrhetic, diarrhoetic, diarrheic, diarrhoeic].
Diarrhetic (a.) Alt. of Diarrhoetic.
Diarrhoetic (a.) (Med.) Producing diarrhea, or a purging.
Diarrhoetic (a.) Of or relating to diarrhea [syn: diarrheal, diarrhoeal, diarrhetic, diarrhoetic, diarrheic, diarrhoeic].
Diarthrodial (a.) (Anat.) Relating to diarthrosis, or movable articulations.
Diarthrosis (n.) (Anat.) A form of articulation which admits of considerable motion; a complete joint; abarticulation. See Articulation.
Diarthrosis (n.) A joint so articulated as to move freely [syn: synovial joint, articulatio synovialis, diarthrosis].
Diaries (n. pl. ) of Diary.
Diary (n.) A register of daily events or transactions; a daily record; a journal; a blank book dated for the record of daily memoranda; as, a diary of the weather; a physician's diary.
Diary (a.) Lasting for one day; as, a diary fever. [Obs.] "Diary ague." -- Bacon.
Diary (n.) A daily written record of (usually personal) experiences and observations [syn: diary, journal].
Diary (n.) A personal journal (as a physical object).
Diary (n.) A daily record of that part of one's life, which he can relate to himself without blushing.
Hearst kept a diary wherein were writ All that he had of wisdom and of wit. So the Recording Angel, when Hearst died, Erased all entries of his own and cried: "I'll judge you by your diary." Said Hearst: "Thank you; 'twill show you I am Saint the First" -- Straightway producing, jubilant and proud, That record from a pocket in his shroud. The Angel slowly turned the pages o'er, Each stupid line of which he knew before, Glooming and gleaming as by turns he hit On Shallow sentiment and stolen wit; Then gravely closed the book and gave it back. "My friend, you've wandered from your proper track: You'd never be content this side the tomb -- For big ideas Heaven has little room, And Hell's no latitude for making mirth," He said, and kicked the fellow back to earth. "The Mad Philosopher".
Diaspore (n.) (Min.) A hydrate of alumina, often occurring in white lamellar masses with brilliant pearly luster; -- so named on account of its decrepitating when heated before the blowpipe.
Diastase (n.) (Physiol. Chem.) A soluble enzyme, capable of converting starch and dextrin into sugar.
Note: The name is more particularly applied to that enzyme formed during the germination of grain, as in the malting of barley; but it is also occasionally used to designate the amylolytic enzyme contained in animal fluids, as in the saliva.
Diastasic (a.) Pertaining to, or consisting of, diastase; as, diastasic ferment.
Diastasis (n.) (Surg.) A forcible of bones without fracture.
Diastasis (n.) Separation of an epiphysis from the long bone to which it is normally attached without fracture of the bone.
Diastatic (a.) (Physiol. Chem.) Relating to diastase; having the properties of diastase; effecting the conversion of starch into sugar.
The influence of acids and alkalies on the diastatic action of saliva. -- Lauder Brunton.
Diastem (n.) Intervening space; interval.
Diastem (n.) (Anc. Mus.) An interval.
Diastema (n.) (Anat.) A vacant space, or gap, esp. between teeth in a jaw.
Diastema (n.) A gap or vacant space between two teeth.
Diaster (n.) (Biol.) A double star; -- applied to the nucleus of a cell, when, during cell division, the loops of the nuclear network separate into two groups, preparatory to the formation of two daughter nuclei. See Karyokinesis.
Diastole (n.) (Physiol.) The rhythmical expansion or dilatation of the heart and arteries; -- correlative to systole, or contraction.
Diastole (n.) (Gram.) A figure by which a syllable naturally short is made long.
Diastole (n.) The widening of the chambers of the heart between two contractions when the chambers fill with blood.
Diastolic (a.) (Physiol.) Of or pertaining to diastole.
Diastolic (a.) Of or relating to a diastole or happening during a diastole.
Compar: Intercolumniation
Intercolumniation (n.) (Arch.) The clear space between two columns, measured at the bottom of their shafts. -- Gwilt.
Note: It is customary to measure the intercolumniation in terms of the diameter of the shaft, taken also at the bottom. Different words, derived from the Greek, are in use to denote certain common proportions. They are: Pycnostyle, when the intercolumniation is of one and a half diameters; Systyle, of two diameters; Eustyle, of two and a quarter diameters; Diastyle, of three diameters; Ar[ae]ostyle, of four or more, and so great that a wooden architrave has to be used instead of stone; Ar[ae]osystyle, when the intercolumniations are alternately systyle and ar[ae]ostyle.
Diastyle (n.) (Arch.) See under Intercolumniation.
Diatessaron (n.) (Anc. Mus.) The interval of a fourth.
Diatessaron (n.) (Theol.) A continuous narrative arranged from the first four books of the New Testament.
Diatessaron (n.) An electuary compounded of four medicines.