Glass vs. Diamond

Glassnoun

(uncountable) An amorphous solid, often transparent substance made by melting sand with a mixture of soda, potash and lime.

Glassnoun

(countable) A vessel from which one drinks, especially one made of glass, plastic, or similar translucent or semi-translucent material.

Glassnoun

(metonymically) The quantity of liquid contained in such a vessel.

Glassnoun

(uncountable) Glassware.

Glassnoun

A mirror.

Glassnoun

A magnifying glass or telescope.

Glassnoun

(sport) A barrier made of solid, transparent material.

Glassnoun

The backboard.

Glassnoun

(ice hockey) The clear, protective screen surrounding a hockey rink.

Glassnoun

A barometer.

Glassnoun

Transparent or translucent.

Glassnoun

(obsolete) An hourglass.

Glassverb

(transitive) To fit with glass; to glaze.

Glassverb

(transitive) To enclose in glass.

Glassverb

(transitive) fibreglass. To fit, cover, fill, or build, with fibreglass-reinforced resin composite (fiberglass).

Glassverb

To strike (someone), particularly in the face, with a drinking glass with the intent of causing injury.

Glassverb

(science fiction) To bombard an area with such intensity (nuclear bomb, fusion bomb, etc) as to melt the landscape into glass.

Glassverb

To view through an optical instrument such as binoculars.

Glassverb

To smooth or polish (leather, etc.), by rubbing it with a glass burnisher.

Glassverb

To reflect; to mirror.

Glassverb

To become glassy.

Glassnoun

A hard, brittle, translucent, and commonly transparent substance, white or colored, having a conchoidal fracture, and made by fusing together sand or silica with lime, potash, soda, or lead oxide. It is used for window panes and mirrors, for articles of table and culinary use, for lenses, and various articles of ornament.

Glassnoun

Any substance having a peculiar glassy appearance, and a conchoidal fracture, and usually produced by fusion.

Glassnoun

Anything made of glass.

Glassnoun

A drinking vessel; a tumbler; a goblet; hence, the contents of such a vessel; especially; spirituous liquors; as, he took a glass at dinner.

Glassverb

To reflect, as in a mirror; to mirror; - used reflexively.

Glassverb

To case in glass.

Glassverb

To cover or furnish with glass; to glaze.

Glassverb

To smooth or polish anything, as leater, by rubbing it with a glass burnisher.

Glassnoun

a brittle transparent solid with irregular atomic structure

Glassnoun

a glass container for holding liquids while drinking

Glassnoun

the quantity a glass will hold

Glassnoun

a small refracting telescope

Glassnoun

amphetamine used in the form of a crystalline hydrochloride; used as a stimulant to the nervous system and as an appetite suppressant

Glassnoun

a mirror; usually a ladies' dressing mirror

Glassnoun

glassware collectively;

Glassverb

furnish with glass;

Glassverb

scan (game in the forest) with binoculars

Glassverb

enclose with glass;

Glassverb

put in a glass container

Glassverb

become glassy or take on a glass-like appearance;

Glassnoun

a hard, brittle substance, typically transparent or translucent, made by fusing sand with soda and lime and cooling rapidly. It is used to make windows, drinking containers, and other articles

Glassnoun

a substance similar to glass which has solidified from a molten state without crystallizing

Glassnoun

glassware

Glassnoun

greenhouses or cold frames considered collectively

Glassnoun

a drinking container made from glass

Glassnoun

the contents of a glass

Glassnoun

a lens, or an optical instrument containing a lens or lenses, in particular a monocle or a magnifying lens.

Glassnoun

a mirror

Glassnoun

a weather glass.

Glassnoun

an hourglass

Glassverb

cover or enclose with glass

Glassverb

(especially in hunting) scan (one's surroundings) with binoculars

Glassverb

hit (someone) in the face with a beer glass

Glassverb

reflect as if in a mirror

Glass

Glass is a non-crystalline, often transparent amorphous solid, that has widespread practical, technological, and decorative use in, for example, window panes, tableware, and optics. Glass is most often formed by rapid cooling (quenching) of the molten form; some glasses such as volcanic glass are naturally occurring.

Diamondnoun

(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.

Diamondnoun

A gemstone made from this mineral.

Diamondnoun

A ring containing a diamond.

Diamondnoun

A very pale blue color/colour.

Diamondnoun

Something that resembles a diamond.

Diamondnoun

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

Diamondnoun

(geometry) The polyiamond made up of two triangles.

Diamondnoun

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

Diamondnoun

(baseball) The infield of a baseball field.

Diamondnoun

(card games) A card of the diamonds suit.

Diamondnoun

A size of type, standardised as 4½ point.

Diamondnoun

The size of type between brilliant and pearl, standardized as 4½-point.

Diamondadjective

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

Diamondadjective

of, relating to, or being a sixtieth anniversary.

Diamondadjective

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

Diamondadjective

(slang) First-rate; excellent.

Diamondverb

to adorn with or as if with diamonds

Diamondnoun

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

Diamondnoun

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

Diamondnoun

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

Diamondnoun

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

Diamondnoun

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

Diamondnoun

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

Diamondadjective

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

Diamondnoun

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

Diamondnoun

very hard native crystalline carbon valued as a gem

Diamondnoun

a playing card in the minor suit of diamonds

Diamondnoun

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

Diamondnoun

the baseball playing field

Diamondnoun

a precious stone consisting of a clear and colourless crystalline form of pure carbon, the hardest naturally occurring substance

Diamondnoun

a tool with a small diamond for cutting glass.

Diamondnoun

an excellent or very special person or thing

Diamondnoun

a figure with four straight sides of equal length forming two opposite acute angles and two opposite obtuse angles; a rhombus

Diamondnoun

one of the four suits in a conventional pack of playing cards, denoted by a red diamond.

Diamondnoun

a card of the suit of diamonds

Diamondnoun

the area delimited by the four bases of a baseball field, forming a square shape.

Diamondnoun

a baseball field.

Diamond

Diamond is a form of the element carbon with its atoms arranged in a crystal structure called diamond cubic. At room temperature and pressure, another solid form of carbon known as graphite is the chemically stable form of carbon, but diamond almost never converts to it.