diamond vs carbon

carbon vs diamond

diamond and carbon both are nouns.

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

As nouns, carbon is a hypernym of diamond; that is, carbon is a word with a broader meaning than diamond:

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

Other hypernyms of diamond include atomic number 6, C, transparent gem.

diamond (noun)	carbon (noun)
the area of a baseball field that is enclosed by 3 bases and home plate	a copy made with carbon paper
a playing card in the minor suit that has one or more red rhombuses on it	an abundant nonmetallic tetravalent element occurring in three allotropic forms: amorphous carbon and graphite and diamond; occurs in all organic compounds
the baseball playing field	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
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 diamond and carbon

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