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Previous Thread Next Thread Print Thread Offshoot of Quarries #139920 02/20/05 01:02 PM Joined: Sep 2001 Posts: 6,296 Piedmont Region of Virginia, U... W Wordwind OP Carpal Tunnel OP Wordwind Carpal Tunnel W Joined: Sep 2001 Posts: 6,296 Piedmont Region of Virginia, U... I didn't want to get Mav's thread too far off-topic, so will open this one up. He included a definition for 'quarry' as being diamond-shaped glass panes. I searched and found some interesting info: hyaline (last syllable having a soft 'i' sounding like the 'i' in 'pin') = glasslike or transparent clathrate = "having a latticelike structure pierced with holes or windows" (onelook.com) And our old friend 'triboluminescence' popped up again with information that diamonds could be caused to glow by rubbing them long enough! Hadn't heard that before. Biting down on wintergreen candy is one thing, but rubbing diamonds for glow effect? Cool! Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter rhombus or lozenge. #139921 02/20/05 02:58 PM Joined: Oct 2000 Posts: 5,400 rego park of troy Carpal Tunnel of troy Carpal Tunnel Joined: Oct 2000 Posts: 5,400 rego park diamond shapes can also (apparently, but never by me!) be called lozenge shaped. a quick check in OneLook, reveled diamond shaped alternated between first and second meaning (with a medical 'tablet' of the same shape, sometimes being the alternate first meaning ) i had always thought of lozenge as a sucking type candy to sooth a sore throat, or to ease coughing. (and hadn't thought about the shape, or that the shape was a key factor between a cough lozenge (brand X) and cough drop, (brand Y) one dictionary suggest the word lozenge is actual related to the word rhombus! (a diamond shape could be defined as a rhombus with equal sides, and paired angles, (opposite angles at 60° (apx) or 120° (apx).) i stumbled across this use of the word lozenge when looking for information about striped patterns and/or harliquin patterns. (at one point, i described the diamond shaped element of my stained glass as having a harliquine type design, and the person i was speaking to, didn't understand what i meant by a harliquine type pattern!--i think they would be less likely to understand a lozenge type pattern!--or is that just me, (ie, a personal knowledge gap?) my other obsession Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Moderated by  Jackie  Hop To General Topics ------  Information and announcements  Q&A about words  Wordplay and fun  Words and languages in schools  Miscellany  Weekly Themes  Looking for (writers, speakers,... (Old) Weekly themes. (have been... ------  Words from medicine  Beheading words  Meta-words  Words from classical mythology  Animal Safari  Words with unusual etymologies  Eponyms or words derived from p...  Loanwords from German  English as a global language Print Thread Switch to Threaded Mode Show Likes Link Copied to Clipboard View Profile Private Message Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary View Profile Private Message Website Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary Forum Statistics Forums16 Topics13,913 Posts229,317 Members9,182 Most Online3,341 Dec 9th, 2011 Newest Members Ineffable, ddrinnan, TRIALNERRA, befuddledmind, KILL_YOUR_SUV 9,182 Registered Users Who's Online Now 0 members (), 583 guests, and 1 robot. Key: Admin, Global Mod, Mod Top Posters(30 Days) wofahulicodoc 31 A C Bowden 13 ddrinnan 1 LukeJavan8 1 Top Posters wwh 13,858 Faldage 13,803 Jackie 11,613 tsuwm 10,542 wofahulicodoc 10,534 LukeJavan8 9,916 Buffalo Shrdlu 7,210 AnnaStrophic 6,511 Wordwind 6,296 of troy 5,400

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