Clay

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. A fine-grained, firm earthy material that is plastic when wet and hardens when heated, consisting primarily of hydrated silicates of aluminum and widely used in making bricks, tiles, and pottery.
  • n. A hardening or nonhardening material having a consistency similar to clay and used for modeling.
  • n. Geology A sedimentary material with grains smaller than 0.002 millimeters in diameter.
  • n. Moist sticky earth; mud.
  • n. The human body as opposed to the spirit.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. A mineral substance made up of small crystals of silica and alumina, that is ductile when moist; the material of pre-fired ceramics.
  • n. An earth material with ductile qualities.
  • n. A tennis court surface.
  • n. The material of the human body.
  • n. A particle less than 3.9 microns in diameter, following the Wentworth scale
  • v. To add clay to, to spread clay onto.
  • v. To purify using clay.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. A soft earth, which is plastic, or may be molded with the hands, consisting of hydrous silicate of aluminium. It is the result of the wearing down and decomposition, in part, of rocks containing aluminous minerals, as granite. Lime, magnesia, oxide of iron, and other ingredients, are often present as impurities.
  • n. Earth in general, as representing the elementary particles of the human body; hence, the human body as formed from such particles.
  • v. To cover or manure with clay.
  • v. To clarify by filtering through clay, as sugar.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. The material resulting from the decomposition and consequent hydration of the feldspathic rocks, especially granite and gneiss, and of the crystalline rocks in general.
  • n. Earth in general, especially in the Scriptures, as the material from which, according to the account in Genesis, the body of the first man was formed.
  • n. . Moist earth; mud; slime.
  • n. . Any viscous plastic mixture used as mortar or cement.
  • n. The human body; especially, a dead body.
  • n. Figuratively, anything which is easily molded, shaped, or influenced.
  • Formed or consisting of clay; characterized by the presence of clay; clayey: as, a clay soil; a clay hovel.
  • To cover or manure with clay.
  • To purify and whiten with clay, as sugar.
  • To puddle with clay.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. water soaked soil; soft wet earth
  • n. a very fine-grained soil that is plastic when moist but hard when fired
  • n. the dead body of a human being
  • n. United States politician responsible for the Missouri Compromise between free and slave states (1777-1852)
  • n. United States general who commanded United States forces in Europe from 1945 to 1949 and who oversaw the Berlin airlift (1897-1978)
  • Verb Form
    clayed    claying    clays   
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    Hyponym
    potter's clay    ball clay    kaolin    fire clay    kaoline   
    Form
    clayed    claying    clayey    ball clay    claymation    potter’s clay    fire clay   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    argil    cloam    clunch    kaolin    metal    cledge    wacke    slip    till    bole   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    A    A.    Bay    Bombay    Bua    Ca    Cabernet    Calais    Cathay    Chevrolet   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    mud    sand    gravel    marble    stone    metal    soil    brick    granite    plastic