carbon vs diamond

diamond vs carbon

carbon and diamond both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
carbon	Yes	No	No	No
diamond	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, diamond is a hyponym of carbon; that is, diamond is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than carbon:

carbon: an abundant nonmetallic tetravalent element occurring in three allotropic forms: amorphous carbon and graphite and diamond; occurs in all organic compounds
diamond: very hard native crystalline carbon valued as a gem

Other hyponyms of carbon include fullerene, carbon 14, radiocarbon, char, charcoal, wood coal, carbon black, crock, lampblack, smut, soot, activated carbon, activated charcoal, black lead, graphite, plumbago, adamant.

carbon (noun)	diamond (noun)
a copy made with carbon paper	the area of a baseball field that is enclosed by 3 bases and home plate
an abundant nonmetallic tetravalent element occurring in three allotropic forms: amorphous carbon and graphite and diamond; occurs in all organic compounds	a playing card in the minor suit that has one or more red rhombuses on it
a thin paper coated on one side with a dark waxy substance (often containing carbon); used to transfer characters from the original to an under sheet of paper	the baseball playing field
	a transparent piece of diamond that has been cut and polished and is valued as a precious gem
	a parallelogram with four equal sides; an oblique-angled equilateral parallelogram
	very hard native crystalline carbon valued as a gem

Difference between carbon and diamond

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