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Main Entry:	clay [kley] Show IPA/kleɪ/ Show Spelled
Part of Speech:	noun
Definition:	workable earth material
Synonyms:	adobe, argil, argillaceous earth, bole, brick, china material, clunch, earth, kaolin, loam, loess, marl, mud, porcelain material, pottery, slip, terra cotta, till, wacke

Main Entry:	dirt
Part of Speech:	noun
Definition:	soil
Synonyms:	clay, dust, earth, loam, real estate, terra firma

Main Entry:	earth
Part of Speech:	noun
Definition:	ground, soil
Synonyms:	alluvium, clay, clod, coast, compost, deposit, dirt, dry land, dust, fill, glebe, gravel, humus, land, loam, marl, mold, muck, mud, peat moss, sand, shore, sod, subsoil, surface, terra firma, terrain, terrane, topsoil, turf

Example Sentences

Clay is abundant and free for anyone who is willing to put a little effort into it.

Players have slid on the clay for generations, leaving streaks across the court.

My adviceChoose your idols well and check their feet for clay.

Clay is abundant and free for anyone who is willing to put a little effort into it.

Players have slid on the clay for generations, leaving streaks across the court.

My adviceChoose your idols well and check their feet for clay.

Landfills without the benefit of a naturally impermeable layer use plastic liners and imported clay.

Poets would write in a shaky hand these wonderful odes to the bodies of the young men, their skin the color of fired clay.

If a clay source is located nearby, single use pottery that is used while a site is occupied and discarded is also a possiblity.

Aspdin heated a concoction of finely ground limestone and clay in his kitchen.

In areas with heavy clay soil or hardpan, a wider hole will give the roots more growing space.

Sugru is a brand new modeling clay that has me absurdly excited.

The four-wheel-drive vehicle stubbornly fights the slippery clay in the.

The clay serves both as reservoir for the bacterial food and also as a haven for the bacteria while the concrete hardens.

Using flint tools, they carved pillars and shaped blocks for walls mortared with clay.

Therefore, all landfills must be lined with either plastic or clay to prevent leachate pollution.

Clay pretended to knock them all out with one punch.

Amend sandy or heavy clay soil with sifted commercial compost before you lay sod.

When the object collided with something, the clay would get smashed and he could measure how smashed it got.

Been asked to remark on the quality of the clay tennis courts at a country club.

The best days of other traditional industries, such as china clay and fishing, are also long gone.

The clay protects foraminifera from surrounding water and the sediments that might otherwise infiltrate and erode the shell.

Cell division forms the clay, whereas cell death sculpts the clay into the desired form.

First he covered the bowl with black engobe-watery clay mixed with glaze.

Stick to the top of the big pumpkin with a small ball of clay polymer or poster putty.

Suppose the you shoot bullet into some clay and it stops.

Britain has plenty of suitable craters, thanks to an almost defunct mining industry and soft but impermeable clay soil.

The clay has in its structure water trapped into crystals.

But the walls are made of mud and wattle, usually there's a thatched roof, and the floor is a mixture of dung and clay.

Combine sugar and oil in a clay pot or saucepan over medium heat.

Then you give the release string a yank and it fires, flinging a small piece of clay across the room.

Portland cement is made from limestone and clay and needs a much hotter oven to make.

Inside, dangling from a key ring, was a green clay olive stuffed with a pimento-red ribbon.

They're particularly important if your native soil is heavy clay.

The eggs of metal were coated in thick jackets of this clay and then set aside to dry.

The clay in the bricks breaks down the arsenic to levels where it has little to no effect on the population.

Ochre from clay was heated to produce reds, yellows and browns.

If your soil is compacted or of heavy clay and drains slowly, plant citrus in raised beds or containers.

Recharge to the aquifer happens through cracks in the clay lining of the playa floor and at the edges of playa basin.

Sloping land and heavy clay soils invite runoff--due to gravity in the first case, due to slow water penetration in the second.

Not at their best in shallow soils but otherwise unfussy about soil, even growing well in heavy clay.

They are generally grown in clay or heavy soil that holds together well when the plants are dug up and wrapped.

First, know your soil texture: if the poor drainage is due to heavy clay soil, amend it thoroughly with organic matter.

As the name implies, this dish was originally made in a clay pot, but it is easily made in any heavy-bottomed pot.

Students create three-dimensional clay mountains and then use them to make contour maps.

Nacimientos made of colored tin, clay or wood are favorites.

By some odd coincidence, restless aggregations of fired clay are popping up in.

Half the apparent geniuses turn out to have feet of clay.

The clay tablets you mentioned were probably a loan agreement and not money.

Ask each group to use narrow trays or to construct troughs in dense modeling clay to simulate stream channels.

Creating sculptures out of clay and bringing them to life through stop-motion.

In sediment cores the period shows up as a layer of red clay sandwiched between two white layers of calcium carbonate.

My contribution to this field was figuring out that it's the clay.

The presence of multiple hearths in the building was revealed by sheets of ash containing fire-hardened clay bowls.

Below is his take on clay pigeon shooting, only the clays have been switched for cars.

Ask the students if they can reshape the clay so that it floats.

Demonstrate how flattening the clay and creating a sailboat shape causes the clay to float.

The clay recoils a bit, but it doesn't have as much kinetic energy as the bullet.

In the first box, they should write what caused the parrots to eat clay.

The clay is heated to high temperatures to harden it, which uses a good deal of energy.

In this case, the clay changed shaped, warmed up and the collision made a sound.

Other statuettes featured a man working clay with a hoe and two other men carrying a bag of clay suspended from a pole.

Bentonite is a naturally occuring clay formed from volcanic ash.

The ingredients were bound together by clay in the tablets.

In clay or alkaline soil, planting in a raised bed is the simplest way to give these plants the conditions they need.

We may think we're sculptors, but the clay is mostly set.

In parrots and macaws, for example, clay particles are.

Basically, the lower the pressure, the more these gases come out of desorptive states with dust and clay particles.

But tilt it did, as the clay soil subsided beneath one side of the foundation.

During the nkumbi they show support for the boys by painting their own bodies with white clay.

The first drawing is of the clay bricks and metal tray.

Lee began his career creating vessels of clay painted with standard glazes.

Clay pots broke too easily, and wood weathered poorly.

Rolling red clay tobacco fields and loblolly pine forests have given way to sweeping new.

The second drawing is of the mud brick superstructure surrounding the clay bricks.

Sow uses a special material to make his sculptures, a mixture of natural fibers and clay.

Clay plaster on two walls adds a delicate contrast to concrete and redwood elements.

GeekDads can enjoy the obsessiveness that put computerized fingerprints on the virtual clay.

Their clay containers, their embroidered garments, the fishnets they weave-all the things they touch-are works of art.

The label says that the artist stretched a single sheet of clay to make the piece, in hopes of evoking a human or animal body.

Sugru is a silicon modeling clay that adheres to almost.

If the latter, it runs the risk of becoming a clay pigeon.

Revelation lifted its head but otherwise remained as inert as a lump of clay.

Later they even ate clay purchased at an arts-and-crafts store.

Next, ask students to form the watershed by gradually leveling the clay so that it leads to the mouth of their river.

It all goes into a landfill where it will be encased in clay lined holes for all eternity.

Main Entry:	mud
Part of Speech:	noun
Definition:	wet dirt
Synonyms:	clay, mire, muck, ooze, silt, slab, sludge, slush

Main Entry:	soil
Part of Speech:	noun
Definition:	earth, dirt
Synonyms:	clay, dry land, dust, grime, ground, land, loam, soot, terra firma

Main Entry:	flesh and blood
Part of Speech:	noun
Definition:	offspring or relatives
Synonyms:	blood relative, children, clay, consanguinean, family, kids, kin, kith and kin, offspring, organism, relatives, uterine kin

Main Entry:	modeling clay
Part of Speech:	noun
Definition:	clay for modeling
Synonyms:	Plasticine [tm], Play-Doh [tm], clay, sculptor's wax

Main Entry:	potter's clay
Part of Speech:	noun
Definition:	clay for making pottery
Synonyms:	argil, china clay, clay, fireclay, potter's earth, pottery, refractory clay

Main Entry:	dead body
Part of Speech:	noun
Definition:	mortal remains
Synonyms:	body, cadaver, carcass, clay, corpse, dead man, remains, stiff

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