clay

Meaning of clay

noun
  1. 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
  2. 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:

mud

Meaning Clay:

Clay

Meaning cadaver:

cadaver, corpse, stiff, remains

Meaning the substance of the land surface; soil:

earth

Meaning a type of fired clay, typically of a brownish-red colour and unglazed, used as an ornamental building material and in modelling:

terracotta

Meaning a thick, heavy clay:

gault

Meaning a red clay of the Upper Missouri region, the sacred pipestone of some North American Indian peoples:

catlinite

Meaning a fine white clay, used especially for making tobacco pipes or for whitening leather:

pipeclay

Meaning hard red clay (catlinite) used by North American Indians for tobacco pipes:

pipestone

Meaning clay, especially potter's clay:

argil

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:

kaolin

Meaning a kind of clay used as a building material:

adobe

Meaning the trunk of a tree:

bole

Meaning a dog of a dwarf breed like a bulldog with a broad flat nose and deeply wrinkled face:

pug

Meaning an act of sliding unintentionally for a short distance:

slip

Meaning slip (liquid clay) used to decorate pottery:

barbotine

Meaning clay capable of withstanding high temperatures, chiefly used for making firebricks:

fireclay

Translation of clay

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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