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Meaning of clay in English
clay noun [U] (SOIL)
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clay noun [U] (TENNIS)
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(Definition of clay from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)
Examples of clay
clay
Undoubtedly, if they had wanted to they could have produced naturalistic clay animals, with heads and legs, for example.
The skull was discovered when one of the clay objects accidentally broke.
The formation of the clay minerals can be divided into three different stages in the tuffs.
The sands are mostly well drained but low-lying areas accumulate sufficient clay and fines to retain water for periods after rainfall.
From the eighteenth century landowners had recognised the need for effective techniques for draining impermeable clay soils.
The dwellings were rectangular and their exterior walls were whitened with either a wash of clay or with lime.
The building's concrete shell is insulated on the exterior and wrapped with extruded clay planks.
The fire destroyed the buildings, but at the same time transformed them into baked clay and thereby preserved them as foundations for new buildings.
Here, we present the results concerning the adsorption and detection of the adenine nucleic based on a series of minerals including clay and meteorite.
It took the high-risk movement to put the first cracks in the clay feet of traditional psychopathology.
It is desired that the operator feels the actual contact force when maneuvering the oil clay system using the force feedback system.
Decades of patenting activity prior to mid-century produced three distinctly different procedures for mechanically forming clay products.
The same low survival rate was obtained behind a thin layer of clay acting as an optical filter.
Extrusion machinery was based on an entirely different principle for forming clay products.
The clay contains a large number of contorted calcite veins.
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Collocations with clay
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The fire destroyed the buildings, but at the same time transformed them into baked clay and thereby preserved them as foundations for new buildings.
The materials under consideration, which may be used singly or in combination, include cement mixes, crushed rock, bentonite clay, polymers, pulverised fly ash, asphalt and salt.
Stop motion animation using plasticine is called clay animation or clay-mation.
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Translations of clay
in Chinese (Traditional)
黏土，陶土…
in Chinese (Simplified)
黏土，陶土…
in Spanish
arcilla, arcilla [feminine]…
in Portuguese
argila, barro, argila [feminine]…
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argile [feminine], terre [feminine] glaise, argile…
leire [masculine], leire…
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