Clay

Meaning of Clay

noun
  1. A mineral substance made up of small crystals of silica and alumina, that is ductile when moist; the material of pre-fired ceramics.
  2. An earth material with ductile qualities.
  3. A tennis court surface made of crushed stone, brick, shale, or other unbound mineral aggregate.
    The French Open is played on clay.
  4. The material of the human body.
  5. A particle less than 3.9 microns in diameter, following the Wentworth scale.
  6. A clay pipe for smoking tobacco.
  7. A clay pigeon.
    We went shooting clays at the weekend.
  8. Land or territory of a country or other political region, especially when subject to territorial claims
    Danzig is rightfully German clay.
verb
  1. To add clay to, to spread clay onto.
  2. (of sugar) To purify using clay.
    1809, Jonathan Williams, On the Process of Claying Sugar, in Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, Volume 6.

Information about Clay

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Hyphenation of Clay

Clay

  • It consists of 1 syllables and 4 chars.
  • Clay is a word monosyllabic because it has one syllable

Clay synonyms

Meaning mud:

mud

Meaning cadaver:

cadaver, corpse, stiff, remains

Clay antonyms

Meaning :

soul, spirit

Anagrams of Clay

acyl, Lacy, lacy

Words that rhyme with Clay

clay, MacLay, Whiteclay, fireclay, pipeclay, Frankclay, brickclay, ballclay, unclay, Barclay, underclay

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