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- Dictionaryclay/kleɪ/
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"
- 2. a European moth with yellowish-brown wings.
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Clay is a type of fine-grained natural soil material containing clay minerals (hydrous aluminium phyllosilicates, e.g. kaolinite, Al 2 Si 2 O 5 4). Most pure clay minerals are white or light-coloured, but natural clays show a variety of colours from impurities, such as a reddish or brownish colour from small amounts of iron oxide.
CLAY definition: 1. thick, heavy soil that is soft when wet, and hard when dry or baked, used for making bricks and…. Learn more.
The meaning of CLAY is an earthy material that is plastic when moist but hard when fired, that is composed mainly of fine particles of hydrous aluminum silicates and other minerals, and that is used for brick, tile, and pottery; specifically : soil composed chiefly of this material having particles less than a specified size.
A stiff, sticky sedimentary material that is soft and pliable when wet and consists mainly of various silicates of aluminum. Clay particles are smaller than silt, having a diameter less than 0.0039 mm. Clay is widely used to make bricks, pottery, and tiles.
CLAY meaning: 1. thick, heavy soil that is soft when wet, and hard when dry or baked, used for making bricks and…. Learn more.
Clay, soil particles the diameters of which are less than 0.005 millimeter; also a rock that is composed essentially of clay particles. Rock in this sense includes soils, ceramic clays, clay shales, mudstones, glacial clays, and deep-sea clays.
a very fine-grained material that consists of hydrated aluminium silicate, quartz, and organic fragments and occurs as sedimentary rocks, soils, and other deposits. It becomes plastic when moist but hardens on heating and is used in the manufacture of bricks, cement, ceramics, etc. Related adjective: figuline. 2.
n. 1. a. A fine-grained, firm earthy material that is plastic when wet and hardens when heated, consisting primarily of hydrated silicates of aluminum and widely used in making bricks, tiles, and pottery. b. A hardening or nonhardening material having a consistency similar to clay and used for modeling. 2.
a figure made of clay; plants that grow in damp clay; Clay tends to dry out and crack in the summer months. Digging the heavy clay soil gave me backache. You'll need a lump of modelling clay.
CLAY definition: a type of heavy soil that becomes hard when dry, used for making things such as bricks and…. Learn more.
