clay
Meaning of clay
noun
- a stiff, sticky fine-grained earth that can be moulded when wet, and is dried and baked to make bricks, pottery, and ceramics.
the soil is mainly clay
a clay soil
a clay tile
the rocks are covered by various mixtures of loose clays and sands
- a European moth with yellowish-brown wings.
Old English clǣg, of West Germanic origin; related to Dutch klei, also to cleave2 and climb.
Information about clay
- It is a name.
- The plural form of clay is: clays.
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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:
Meaning Clay:
Meaning cadaver:
cadaver, corpse, stiff, remains
Meaning the substance of the land surface; soil:
Meaning a type of fired clay, typically of a brownish-red colour and unglazed, used as an ornamental building material and in modelling:
Meaning a thick, heavy clay:
Meaning a red clay of the Upper Missouri region, the sacred pipestone of some North American Indian peoples:
Meaning a fine white clay, used especially for making tobacco pipes or for whitening leather:
Meaning hard red clay (catlinite) used by North American Indians for tobacco pipes:
Meaning clay, especially potter's clay:
Meaning a fine soft white clay, resulting from the natural decomposition of other clays or feldspar. It is used for making porcelain and china, as a filler in paper and textiles, and in medicinal absorbents:
Meaning a kind of clay used as a building material:
Meaning the trunk of a tree:
Meaning a dog of a dwarf breed like a bulldog with a broad flat nose and deeply wrinkled face:
Meaning an act of sliding unintentionally for a short distance:
Meaning slip (liquid clay) used to decorate pottery:
Meaning clay capable of withstanding high temperatures, chiefly used for making firebricks:
Translation of clay
- German: Lehm, Leiche, Kadaver, Leichnam
- Spanish: arcilla, fiambre, muerto, cadáver
- French: argile, corps, cadavre, dépouille, restes
- Italian: argilla, cadavere, resti
- Portuguese: argila, cadáver
Anagrams of clay
Words that rhyme with clay
Clay, MacLay, Whiteclay, fireclay, pipeclay, Frankclay, brickclay, ballclay, unclay, Barclay, underclay
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