Lozenge vs. Rhombus

Lozengenoun

(shapes) (heraldry) A quadrilateral with sides of equal length (rhombus), having two acute and two obtuse angles.

Lozengenoun

A small tablet (originally diamond-shaped) or medicated sweet used to ease a throat.

Lozengeverb

(transitive) To form into the shape of a lozenge.

Lozengeverb

(transitive) To mark or emblazon with a lozenge.

Lozengenoun

A diamond-shaped figure usually with the upper and lower angles slightly acute, borne upon a shield or escutcheon. Cf. Fusil.

Lozengenoun

A figure with four equal sides, having two acute and two obtuse angles; a rhomb.

Lozengenoun

Anything in the form of lozenge.

Lozengenoun

A small cake of sugar and starch, flavored, and often medicated. - originally in the form of a lozenge.

Lozengenoun

a small aromatic or medicated candy

Lozengenoun

a dose of medicine in the form of a small pellet

Lozenge

A lozenge ( ), ◊ – often referred to as a diamond – is a form of rhombus. The definition of lozenge is not strictly fixed, and it is sometimes used simply as a synonym (from the French: losange) for rhombus.

Rhombusnoun

Any of several flatfishes, including the brill and turbot, once considered part of the genus Rhombus, now in Scophthalmus.

Rhombusnoun

Snails, now in genus Conus or family Conidae.

Rhombusnoun

(geometry) A parallelogram having all sides of equal length.

Rhombusnoun

Same as Rhomb, 1.

Rhombusnoun

a parallelogram with four equal sides; an oblique-angled equilateral parallelogram

Rhombusnoun

a quadrilateral all of whose sides have the same length.

Rhombus

In plane Euclidean geometry, a rhombus (plural rhombi or rhombuses) is a quadrilateral whose four sides all have the same length. Another name is equilateral quadrilateral, since equilateral means that all of its sides are equal in length.