English Dictionary

clay

IPA（発音記号）

/kleɪ/

名詞

不可算名詞 通常 くだけた表現

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.

日本語の意味

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。

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

彼女はろくろで柔らかい粘土から花瓶を作った。

意味（1）

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

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 […].

意味（2）

An earth material with ductile qualities.

意味（3）

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

The French Open is played on clay.

意味（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.

意味（5）

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

意味（6）

A clay pipe for smoking tobacco.

意味（7）

(firearms, informal) A clay pigeon.

We went shooting clays at the weekend.

意味（8）

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

Danzig is rightfully German clay.

clays （ plural ）