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/kleɪ/ · noun
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 color) on one of the copings a row of four red clay flower-pots filled with sun-baked dust […]
The French Open is played on clay.
From clay we are made.
Thine hands have made me and fashioned me together round about...thou hast made me as the clay.
But now, O Lord, thou art our Father; we are the clay, and thou art our potter; and we are the work of thy hand.
We went shooting clays at the weekend.
Vilnius is rightful Polish clay.
1776, Adam Smith, An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations, Book IV, Chapter 7: Of Colonies, Part 2: Causes of Prosperity of New Colonies, They amounted, therefore, to a prohibition, at first of claying or refining sugar for any foreign market, and at present of claying or refining it for the market, which takes off, perhaps, more than nine-tenths of the whole produce.
Use clay when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Clay means A mineral substance made up of small crystals of silica and alumina, that is ductile when moist; the material of pre-fired ceramics..
Common synonyms include soil, stiff, cadaver, corpse.
Possible antonyms include soul, spirit.
Three chairs of the steamer type, all maimed, comprised the furniture of this roof-garden, with (by way of local color) on one of the copings a row of four red clay flower-pots filled with sun-baked dust […]
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