Three diamonds

[nq:1]Someone asked me if "Mitsubishi" means "three diamonds", and I answered, no, it means "three lozenges". He said that "lozenge" ... a rhombus. In Japanese, "diamond" is not a rhombus, but can "diamond", "lozenge", and "rhombus" mean the same to you?[/nq]
Can do. But I think the most common usages are:
diamond = precious stone formed of carbon and appearing in many shapes diamond-shape

[nq:1]Someone asked me if "Mitsubishi" means "three diamonds", and I answered, no, it means "three lozenges". He said that "lozenge" ... a rhombus. In Japanese, "diamond" is not a rhombus, but can "diamond", "lozenge", and "rhombus" mean the same to you?[/nq]
They can mean the same shape.
In English, Mitsubishi calls its logo a triple-diamond. The diamonds are usually coloured red, which m

[nq:2]Someone asked me if "Mitsubishi" means "three diamonds", and I ... can "diamond", "lozenge", and "rhombus" mean the same to you?[/nq]
[nq:1]Can do. But I think the most common usages are: diamond = precious stone formed of carbon and appearing in many shapes diamond-shaped = a rhomb or rhombus[/nq]
diamond , where the infielders stand during a baseball game.

lozenge = a form

"John Dean" (Email Removed) wrote, among other things,
[nq:1]"Three rhombs" ("rhombuses" or "rhombi") would be three rectangles each with equal sides, opposite angles equal of which one pair was acute and one obtuse.[/nq]
Did you mean "parallelograms" or "quadrilaterals" rather than "rectangles"? A simple typo, no doubt.

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[nq:1]Someone asked me if "Mitsubishi" means "three diamonds", and I answered, no, it means "three lozenges". He said that "lozenge" ... a rhombus. In Japanese, "diamond" is not a rhombus, but can "diamond", "lozenge", and "rhombus" mean the same to you?[/nq]
Yes.
Adrian

[nq:1]In English, Mitsubishi calls its logo a triple-diamond. The diamonds are usually coloured red, which makes them reminiscent of the diamond suit in a pack of playing cards.[/nq]
Mitsubishi also markets "Three Diamonds" brand tuna in the US.

[nq:1]Someone asked me if "Mitsubishi" means "three diamonds", and I answered, no, it means "three lozenges". He said that "lozenge" ... a rhombus. In Japanese, "diamond" is not a rhombus, but can "diamond", "lozenge", and "rhombus" mean the same to you?[/nq]
"Lozenge" for "rhombus" is pretty much unknown in modern English outside of heraldry, where it can appear as a charge (a part of a shiel

[nq:2]Someone asked me if "Mitsubishi" means "three diamonds", and I ... can "diamond", "lozenge", and "rhombus" mean the same to you?[/nq]
[nq:1]"Lozenge" for "rhombus" is pretty much unknown in modern English outside of heraldry, where it can appear as a charge ... especially when it's displayed "vertically" or "horizontally", i.e. with either of the axes between the vertices running paralle

iwasaki filted:
[nq:1]Someone asked me if "Mitsubishi" means "three diamonds", and I answered, no, it means "three lozenges". He said that "lozenge" ... a rhombus. In Japanese, "diamond" is not a rhombus, but can "diamond", "lozenge", and "rhombus" mean the same to you?[/nq]
Silly me, I'd been parsing the brand as "mitsu + ishi", "three stones"...until this message I actually thought it re

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[nq:1]Someone asked me if "Mitsubishi" means "three diamonds", and I answered, no, it means "three lozenges". He said that "lozenge" ... a rhombus. In Japanese, "diamond" is not a rhombus, but can "diamond", "lozenge", and "rhombus" mean the same to you?[/nq]
Your informant is correct that "l