diamond point
Americannoun
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Furniture. a faceted, low-relief ornamental motif giving the effect of a cut gem.
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an acute, pyramidal point on a nail or spike.
noun
Etymology
Origin of diamond point
First recorded in 1870–75
Example Sentences
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It is done with a complicated ruling engine, carrying a diamond point back and forth across the plate.
From Time Magazine Archive
To make diffraction gratings the diamond point had to cut only through the aluminum skin.
From Time Magazine Archive
There were portraits, landscapes of Maine, Canada, North & South Carolina, and an effective series of diamond point etchings of West Virginia mountaineers with their cabins, their sad-eared mules, their hound dogs.
From Time Magazine Archive
In art she tried to live up to her favorite Chinese maxim: "One should draw as if engraving a slab of rock crystal with a diamond point."
From Time Magazine Archive
Made in the form of an objective, the lenses are replaced by a diamond point, set slightly out of the centre, which can be rotated by means of a milled plate.
From The Elements of Bacteriological Technique A Laboratory Guide for Medical, Dental, and Technical Students. Second Edition Rewritten and Enlarged. by Eyre, J. W. H. (John William Henry)
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