clay
粘土,泥土,黏土,泥巴
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Definitions
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- : a natural earthy material that is plastic when wet, consisting essentially of hydrated silicates of aluminum: used for making bricks, pottery, etc.
- : earth; mud.
- : earth, especially regarded as the material from which the human body was formed.
- : the human body, especially as distinguished from the spirit or soul; the flesh.
- : human character as estimated according to fineness of constitution, endowments, etc.: The saints and heroes seem of a different clay from most of us.
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- : to treat or mix with clay; cover, daub, or fill with clay.
- : to filter through clay.
Phrases
- clay pigeon
- feet of clay
Synonyms & Antonyms
Examples
When you melt the clay, you destroy the statue but you don’t destroy the clay from which the statue is formed.
The Millennium engineers called for a clay covering to protect the embankment from erosion, as well as closely monitoring the project.
The water was yellowish, thick, full of clay, stinking of oil and sewage.
What’s new is breaking the clay down to a nanoparticle level and getting a liquid substance that can be easily sprayed onto land.
He explains that the dinos had been walking on a surface of clay.
But, together, Webster, Clay, and Calhoun delayed the Civil War for 40 years.
Clay engineered the morally indefensible Missouri Compromise.
From the 1820s to the 1850s, the upper house was dominated by Daniel Webster, Henry Clay, and John Calhoun.
It just changed into something quite dark and unattractive with Clay, and was a unique moment in my artistic career.
Horace was athletic and clever, known, probably apocryphally, as the fastest cotton picker in Clay County.
The British had fired 143 cannon shot into the fort before the arrival of Gen. Clay.
Only the laborers on the plantations smoke small pipes.