though, lozenge refers to a thin rhombus—a rhombus with two acute and two obtuse angles, especially one with acute angles of 45°. The lozenge shape is often...

Look up lozenge or losange in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Lozenge or losange may refer to: Lozenge (shape), a type of rhombus Throat lozenge, a tablet...

influenza. Cough tablets have taken the name lozenge, based on their original shape, a diamond. Medical portal Lozenges may contain benzocaine, an anaesthetic...

arms upon a lozenge, or diamond-shape, while clergymen and ladies in continental Europe bear their arms upon a cartouche, or oval. Other shapes are also...

The lozenge in heraldry is a diamond-shaped rhombus charge (an object that can be placed on the field of the shield), usually somewhat narrower than it...

takes its name from the repeated polygon shapes incorporated in the designs, many of which resembled lozenges. In Germany it was called Buntfarbenaufdruck...

or rushes. It appears in many different shapes, but the most popular designs feature a woven diamond or lozenge in the centre. The cross is named for the...

Before baking, the dough is cut into regular pieces, often parallelograms (lozenge-shaped), triangles, diamonds or rectangles. After baking, a syrup, which...

quadrum, meaning "square" or "rectangle". The diamond typically has a lozenge shape, a parallelogram with four equal sides, placed on one of its points...

Bavaria for many centuries). The logo does not bear the distinctive lozenge shape found on the coat of arms, however, as local laws at the time it was...

water, rose water or simple syrup, and typically cut into diamond (lozenge) shapes or squares. The Oxford Companion to Food (3rd edition) suggests that...

in Japanese is hishi, a word that is also used to mean "a diamond or lozenge shape, a rhombus". The manufacturing group Mitsubishi takes its name and logo...

high relief which combined with the common yellow-brown colour and lozenge-shape cross-section makes the mineral easy to identify. Transparent specimens...

be a kind of 4–4–2 (specifically a 4–4–2 diamond, referring to the lozenge shape formed by the four midfielders). The numbering system was not present...

diamond or lozenge shape. This was the precursor of the version of the envelope known today. Its convenience and popularity led to the lozenge design being...

difficulty was compounded in the later half of the 13th century, when the lozenge shape came also to be used for the semibreve. A general rule is that the last...

unskilled. 5th Infantry Division "Red Diamonds" – a plain red diamond or lozenge shape "Red Devils" – during the Battle of Saint-Mihiel in World War I, the...

field masculy is composed entirely of mascles; that is, lozenges pierced with a lozenge shape – this creates a solid fretwork surface and is to be distinguished...

units of both the First and Second World Wars displayed a diamond (or lozenge) shape in the purple of the engineers on a red square background. Wherever...

their fully enclosed chassis, the Skeleton Tank achieved the requisite lozenge shape by supporting its tracks with a skeleton-like framework formed from...

painting sometimes receives the title Lozenge Composition with yellow lines because of the diamond, or lozenge, shape that the painting has. Composition...

liquorice (Süßlakritz) candy. A traditional shape for salty liquorice pastilles is a black diamond-shaped lozenge. In Finnish, it is known as salmiakki. The...

is not a prestige office — a fact that is reinforced by the awkward lozenge shape of the room and by the small size of the man’s desk. A yet smaller desk...

gangway that leads up to the entrance. The house is octagonal in plan and lozenge-shape in section, and is often described as a "flying saucer". Since there...

most Roman forts that have a "playing-card shape" (rectangular with rounded corners), Whitley Castle is lozenge-shaped to fit the site. Numerous banks and...

rod and support for the wheel are carried up within an acutely angled lozenge shape pointed southeast to deflect blasts of wind like a "storm prow". This...

superstitions, including beliefs regarding protection and fertility. The lozenge shape is a common motif and represents a sown field and female fertility....

names - see "Hillwalking" below. They form a roughly rhomboidal or lozenge shape on the map with the acute angles being to north and south. It has river...

(LRT) platform. The profile of the lozenge tactile warning surface comprises rows of 6±0.5 mm high lozenge shapes, which have rounded edges so as not...

Cyclic quadrilateral Kite Parallelogram Rhombus (equilateral parallelogram) Lozenge Rhomboid Rectangle Square (regular quadrilateral) Tangential quadrilateral...