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Dictionary quizzes to help you remember the meaning

clay

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Source Word

clay

IPA(Pronunciation)

/kleɪ/

uncountable usually informal

A mineral substance made up of small crystals of silica and alumina, that is ductile when moist; the material of pre-fired ceramics. / An earth material with ductile qualities.

Japanese Meaning

粘土：微細なシリカとアルミナの結晶から構成され、湿った状態で柔軟性を示す鉱物性の土で、焼成前の陶器やレンガなどの原料として用いられる。

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She molded the vase from soft clay on the potter's wheel.

Google Translation / DeepL Translation

彼女はろくろで柔らかい粘土から花瓶を作った。

Sense（1）

Three chairs of the steamer type, all maimed, comprised the furniture of this roof-garden, with (by way of local colour) on one of the copings a row of four red clay flower-pots filled with sun-baked dust […].

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Sense（2）

An earth material with ductile qualities.

Sense（3）

(tennis) A tennis court surface made of crushed stone, brick, shale, or other unbound mineral aggregate.

The French Open is played on clay.

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Sense（4）

(biblical) The material of the human body.

Thine hands have made me and fashioned me together round about...thou hast made me as the clay.

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Sense（5）

(geology) A particle less than 3.9 microns in diameter, following the Wentworth scale.

Sense（6）

A clay pipe for smoking tobacco.

Sense（7）

(firearms, informal) A clay pigeon.

We went shooting clays at the weekend.

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Sense（8）

(informal) Land or territory of a country or other political region, especially when subject to territorial claims

Danzig is rightfully German clay.

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clays

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