| Clay, Henry Known as "the Great Compromiser." 1777-1852. American politician who pushed the Missouri Compromise through the U.S. House of Representatives (1820) in an effort to reconcile free and slave states. |
| Clay, Lucius DuBignon 1897-1978. American army officer who commanded U.S. forces in Germany (1945-1949) and oversaw the Berlin airlift (1948). |
Clay 1 (kl ), Cassius Marcellus 1810-1903. American abolitionist and public official who was minister to Russia (1861-1862 and 1863-1869). |
| Clay 2 (kl), Cassius Marcellus See Muhammad Ali. |
| clay (kl) n. 1. a. 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. b. A hardening or nonhardening material having a consistency similar to clay and used for modeling. 2. Geology A sedimentary material with grains smaller than 0.002 millimeters in diameter. 3. Moist sticky earth; mud. 4. The human body as opposed to the spirit. [Middle English clei, from Old English clæg.] clay  ey (kl ), clayish adj. |
clay [kleɪ]
n
1. (Earth Sciences / Geological Science) a very fine-grained material that consists of hydrated aluminium silicate, quartz, and organic fragments and occurs as sedimentary rocks, soils, and other deposits. It becomes plastic when moist but hardens on heating and is used in the manufacture of bricks, cement, ceramics, etc. Related adj figuline
2. earth or mud in general
3. (Literary & Literary Critical Terms) Poetic the material of the human body
vb
(tr) to cover or mix with clay
[Old English clǣg; related to Old High German klīa, Norwegian kli, Latin glūs glue, Greek gloios sticky oil]
clayey , clayish, claylike adj
Clay [kleɪ]
n
1. (Biographies / Clay, Cassius) Cassius See Muhammad Ali
2. (Biographies / Clay, Henry (1777-1852) M, US, POLITICS: statesman, POLITICS: orator) Henry. 1777-1852, US statesman and orator; secretary of state (1825-29)
| clay (kl) A stiff, sticky sedimentary material that is soft and pliable when wet and consists mainly of various silicates of aluminum. Clay particles are smaller than silt, having a diameter less than 0.0039 mm. Clay is widely used to make bricks, pottery, and tiles. |
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| Noun | 1. |  clay - a very fine-grained soil that is plastic when moist but hard when firedbrick - rectangular block of clay baked by the sun or in a kiln; used as a building or paving material adobe - the clay from which adobe bricks are made argil - a white clay (especially a white clay used by potters) atomic number 14, Si, silicon - a tetravalent nonmetallic element; next to oxygen it is the most abundant element in the earth's crust; occurs in clay and feldspar and granite and quartz and sand; used as a semiconductor in transistors china clay, china stone, kaolin, kaoline, porcelain clay, terra alba - a fine usually white clay formed by the weathering of aluminous minerals (as feldspar); used in ceramics and as an absorbent and as a filler (e.g., in paper) red clay - clay whose redness results from iron oxide pipeclay, terra alba - fine white clay used in making tobacco pipes and pottery and in whitening leather bentonite - an absorbent aluminum silicate clay formed from volcanic ash fireclay - a heat-resistant clay Kitty Litter - granulated clay; placed in a container where it absorbs the waste products of a cat or dog potter's clay, potter's earth - clay that does not contain any iron; used in making pottery or for modeling daub - material used to daub walls roofing tile, tile - a thin flat slab of fired clay used for roofing |
| 2. |  clay - water soaked soil; soft wet earth bleaching clay, bleaching earth - an adsorbent clay that will remove coloring from oils mud pie - a mass of mud that a child has molded into the shape of pie | |
| 3. | Clay - United States general who commanded United States forces in Europe from 1945 to 1949 and who oversaw the Berlin airlift (1897-1978) | |
| 4. |  Clay - United States politician responsible for the Missouri Compromise between free and slave states (1777-1852) | |
| 5. |  clay - 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"dead body, body - a natural object consisting of a dead animal or person; "they found the body in the lake" cremains - the remains of a dead body after cremation |
clay noun
Related words
adjective figuline
adjective figuline
Translations
clay [kleɪ]
clay [ˈkleɪ]
clay
clay:
n → Lehm m; to have feet of clay or (US) clay feet → einen Makel auf seiner weißen Weste haben ? also potter1
clay:
clay pigeon
n → Tontaube f
clay pigeon shooting
n → Tontaubenschießen nt
clay pipe
n → Tonpfeife f
clay [kleɪ] n (gen) → argilla; (for pottery) → creta, argilla
clay [kleɪ] n (gen) → argilla; (for pottery) → creta, argilla
clay [kleɪ] n (gen) → argilla; (for pottery) → creta, argilla
n clay [klei]
a soft, sticky type of earth which is often baked into pottery, china, bricks etc. klei طين خَزَفي، صَلْصال глина hlína ler der Ton πηλός arcilla, barro savi خاک رس savi argile טִיט, חֵמָר सख्त चिकनी मिट्टी glina, ilovača agyag lempung leir argilla 粘土 점토 molis māls tanah liat klei leire glina barro lut глина hlina glina glina lera, lerjord ดินเหนียว balçık 粘土 глина مٹی đất sét 粘土
Clay → صلصال hlína ler Lehm πηλός arcilla savi argile glina creta 粘土 점토 klei leire glina argila глина lera ดินเหนียว kil đất sét 粘土
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