clay

Substantiv

1. 1

   A mineral substance made up of small crystals of silica and alumina, that is ductile when moist; the material of pre-fired ceramics.

   Three chairs of the steamer type, all maimed, comprised the furniture of this roof-garden, with (by way of local color) on one of the copings a row of four red clay flower-pots filled with sun-baked dust […]

2. 2

   An earth material with ductile qualities.

3. 3

   A tennis court surface made of crushed stone, brick, shale, or other unbound mineral aggregate.

   The French Open is played on clay.

4. 4

   The material of the human body.

   From clay we are made.

   Thine hands have made me and fashioned me together round about...thou hast made me as the clay.

   But now, O Lord, thou art our Father; we are the clay, and thou art our potter; and we are the work of thy hand.

5. 5

   A particle less than 3.9 microns in diameter, following the Wentworth scale.

6. 6

   A clay pipe for smoking tobacco.

7. 7

   umgangssprachlichA clay pigeon.

   We went shooting clays at the weekend.

8. 8

   Land or territory of a country or other political region, especially when subject to territorial claims.

   Vilnius is rightful Polish clay.

9. 9

   A moth (Mythimna ferrago).

Verb

1. 1

   To add clay to, to spread clay onto.

2. 2

   To purify using clay.

   1776, Adam Smith, An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations, Book IV, Chapter 7: Of Colonies, Part 2: Causes of Prosperity of New Colonies, They amounted, therefore, to a prohibition, at first of claying or refining sugar for any foreign market, and at present of claying or refining it for the market, which takes off, perhaps, more than nine-tenths of the whole produce.

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   The Portuguese had mastered the technique of claying sugar, and other European nations tried to learn the secrets from them.

Formen

Plural

clays

Präteritum

clayed

Partizip II

clayed

Partizip I

claying

3. Person Singular

clays