Clay

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.

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Clay, Lucius DuBignon 1897-1978.

American army officer who commanded U.S. forces in Germany (1945-1949) and oversaw the Berlin airlift (1948).

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Clay ¹  (kl), Cassius Marcellus 1810-1903.

American abolitionist and public official who was minister to Russia (1861-1862 and 1863-1869).

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Clay ²  (kl), Cassius Marcellus

See Muhammad Ali.

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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.

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[Middle English clei, from Old English clæg.]

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clayey (kl), clayish adj.

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clay

Noun

1. a very fine-grained earth, soft when moist and hardening when baked, used to make bricks and pottery

2. earth or mud

3. Poetic the material of the human body [Old English clǣg]

clayey
clayish
claylike adj

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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.

Thesaurus

Noun	1.	clay - a very fine-grained soil that is plastic when moist but hard when fired brick - rectangular block of clay baked by the sun or in a kiln; used as a building or paving material clayware, pottery - ceramic ware made from clay and baked in a kiln 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 dirt, soil - the part of the earth's surface consisting of humus and disintegrated rock roofing tile, tile - a thin flat slab of fired clay used for roofing
	2.	clay - water soaked soil; soft wet earth     mud 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 dirt, soil - the part of the earth's surface consisting of humus and disintegrated rock mire, slop - deep soft mud in water or slush; "they waded through the slop"
	3.	Clay - United States general who commanded United States forces in Europe from 1945 to 1949 and who oversaw the Berlin airlift (1897-1978) Lucius Clay, Lucius DuBignon Clay
	4.	Clay - United States politician responsible for the Missouri Compromise between free and slave states (1777-1852) Henry Clay, the Great Compromiser
	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" cadaver, corpse, remains, stiff 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

Translations

clay [kleɪ] n → arcilla

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clay [kleɪ] n → argile f

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clay [kleɪ] n → Ton m;

(soil) → Lehm m

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clay [kleɪ] n → argilla

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clay

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