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clay Noun

— Clay is a type of mud or dirt that can be made into bricks and pots.

clay

— noun a very fine-grained soil that is plastic when moist but hard when fired — noun (= mud) water soaked soil; soft wet earth — noun (= cadaver, corpse, stiff) the dead body of a human being the cadaver was intended for dissection the end of the police search was the discovery of a corpse the murderer confessed that he threw the stiff in the river honor comes to bless the turf that wraps their clay

Clay

— noun United States politician responsible for the Missouri Compromise between free and slave states (1777-1852) — noun United States general who commanded United States forces in Europe from 1945 to 1949 and who oversaw the Berlin airlift (1897-1978)

Synonyms clay synonyms

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mud earth loam soil stiff cadaver remains corpse earthen dirt argil dead body body mire carcass white clay slime mortar land white wet ground stone loamy ground clayey soil brown clay whitish soil white bole wet dirt thunderbolt terracotta terra cotta tenacious clay swamp sticky stuff soft mud soft ground sludge slosh slippery ground slab silt sect sap sand rock residue religion red pug

Clay English » English

the Great Compromiser Lucius DuBignon Clay Lucius Clay Henry Clay

Topics clay topics

What do people use clay to talk about?

Work and occupation Working with buildings

Building materials

What materials are used to make walls?

wood brick cement plaster drywall mud and wattle clay cow dung reinforcing sticks
What kinds of materials are used for bricks?

mud clay cement straw mortar sun-dried burned fired kiln-dried

Work and occupation Occupation Working with minerals

Working with clay

What words refer to clay?

clay lump of clay
What things are made out of clay?

ceramics pottery clay pot clay pipe clay idol brick tile

Universe, creation World Substance, matter

Soil, dirt

What words refer to soil?

soil topsoil earth earthen ground loam clay dirt dirty sand sandy

Work and occupation Occupation Art

Sculpture

What tools and materials are used to carve a sculpture?

chisel hammer marble clay

Examples clay examples

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Simple sentences

He formed the clay into a bowl.

He formed a ball from the clay.

Swallows build their nests from clay.

Clay is the essential ingredient in making pottery.

You need to hit the clay pigeon.

We went clay pigeon shooting.

This house has a clay tile roof.

Tom shot the clay pigeon.

The heat of the sun hardens clay.

Bricks consist mostly of clay.

If the difference between order and chaos or preservation and ruin were the same as that between high mountains and deep valleys, or between white clay and black lacquer, then wisdom would have had no place: stupidity would also have been alright.

Movie subtitles

I have your footprint in clay.

Stay up, Clay, player.

Are you Clay?

I'm Clay Carlin and I think I'm your son.

Our bodies are earth and our thoughts are clay. and we sleep and eat with death.

Carries the mineral rights, and as you know, perhaps, there's a very valuabl e deepwater clay there.

In the finals of the clay pigeon shooting.

I'll show them how to cast pipes out of clay.

Now, where was I? Oh, yes. Christine Clay was strangled with a belt from a raincoat.

Did you know Christine Clay very well?

I want to know if we have enough clay pigeons.

Have I got feet of clay or something?

My feet are made of clay, made of clay.

Next the clay, and then the marble.

Mm. She's working off the finals of the clay-pigeon shooting. - I see.

That's a cinch. I'll show them how to cast pipes out of clay. There you are.

Shooting might look easy. Like shooting clay pipes at the fair.

It's dull plugging along like this clay in and clay out.

He created creatures out of clay and blew his breath into them and they came to life.

She'll be perfectly all right in a clay or two, Mr. Kane.

I've just talked with a colored boy, Parry Clay.

His name is Parry Clay.

Pardon my mentioning it but adhering to your left boot heel is a clay known only in Seven Oaks.

Yeah, and get shot down like a clay pigeon.

We're trying it in tile and clay.

What is it? Have I got feet of clay or something?

Yeah, and we're gonna be clay pigeons.

After all, there are a lots of people who work in the clay pits, in the mills and the coal mines who'd like to own homes, too.

The clay pit workers took most of them.

Some clay it'll all be over.

The dead with charity enclosed in clay.

Stop playing me for a clay pigeon.

News and current affairs

Even if the media were American-owned, it is too facile to say that consumers of culture the world over are mere clay in the hands of skilled marketing experts.

In the Kargopol museum, for example, stands a clay pitcher, presented to the museum by the descendants of a guard who appropriated a prisoner's parcel - a pitcher full of honey.

If Russia remains dependent on a natural-resource economy, it will again become a colossus with feet of clay.

Without drastic reform of the social state, European fiscal policy will continue to have feet of clay.

Unfortunately, the proverbial Washington political gridlock leaves little hope for fixing the problem, adding to the impression of a giant with clay feet.

Without a strong capacity for innovation and creativity, even a giant has feet of clay.

References to it can be found on clay tablets from the royal library of Nineveh and Babylon, dating from before the sixth century BC, as well as in a collection of Chinese legends ascribed to Lieh Tzu dating from the fifth century BC.

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