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Definition of 'clay'

Random House Webster's College Dictionary

1. (n.) clay
a natural earthy material that is plastic when wet, consisting essentially of hydrated silicates of aluminum: used for making bricks, pottery, etc.

2.  clay
earth; mud.

3.  clay
earth regarded as the material from which the human body was formed.

4.  clay
the human body, esp. as distinguished from the spirit or soul.

5. (n.) Clay
Cassius Marcellus, 1810–1903, U.S. antislavery leader.

6.  Clay
Cassius Marcellus, Jr.,

7.  Clay
Henry, 1777–1852, U.S. statesman and orator.

8.  Clay
Lucius (DuBignon), 1897–1978, U.S. general.

Definition of 'clay'

Princeton's WordNet

1. (noun) clay
a very fine-grained soil that is plastic when moist but hard when fired

2. (noun) mud, clay
water soaked soil; soft wet earth

3. (noun) Clay, Lucius Clay, Lucius DuBignon Clay
United States general who commanded United States forces in Europe from 1945 to 1949 and who oversaw the Berlin airlift (1897-1978)

4. (noun) Clay, Henry Clay, the Great Compromiser
United States politician responsible for the Missouri Compromise between free and slave states (1777-1852)

5. (noun) cadaver, corpse, stiff, clay, remains
the dead body of a human being
"the cadaver was intended for dissection"; "the end of the police search was the discovery of a corpse"; "the murderer confessed that he threw the stiff in the river"; "honor comes to bless the turf that wraps their clay"

Definition of 'clay'

Kernerman English Learner’s Dictionary

1. (noun) clay
a soft substance taken from the ground, used for making dishes, bricks, etc.

Definition of 'clay'

Webster Dictionary

1. (noun) clay
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

2. (noun) clay
earth in general, as representing the elementary particles of the human body; hence, the human body as formed from such particles

3. (verb) clay
to cover or manure with clay

4. (verb) clay
to clarify by filtering through clay, as sugar

Translation of 'clay'

Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary

Sense: a soft, sticky type of earth which is often baked into pottery, china, bricks etc.
Afrikaans: klei	Arabic: طين خَزَفي، صَلْصال	Bulgarian: глина
Brazilian: argila	Czech: hlína	German: der Ton
Danish: ler	Greek: πηλός	Spanish: arcilla, barro
Estonian: savi	Farsi: خاک رس	Finnish: savi
French: argile	Hebrew: טִיט, חֵמָר	Hindi: सख्त चिकनी मिट्टी
Croatian: glina, ilovača	Hungarian: agyag	Indonesian: lempung
Icelandic: leir	Italian: argilla	Japanese: 粘土
Korean: 점토	Lithuanian: molis	Latvian: māls
Malay: tanah liat	Dutch: klei	Norwegian: leire
Polish: glina	Persian: خاک رس	Pashto: خاوره: انسان بدن
Portuguese: barro	Romanian: lut	Russian: глина
Slovak: hlina	Slovenian: glina	Serbian: glina
Swedish: lera, lerjord	Thai: ดินเหนียว	Turkish: balçık
Taiwanese: 黏土	Ukrainian: глина	Urdu: مٹی
Vietnamese: đất sét	Chinese: 粘土
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