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Clay

/kleɪ/

A mineral substance made up of small crystals of silica and alumina, that is ductile when moist; the material of pre-fired ceramics.

📖 Definitions of "Clay"

noun

1
A mineral substance made up of small crystals of silica and alumina, that is ductile when moist; the material of pre-fired ceramics.
2
An earth material with ductile qualities.
3
A tennis court surface made of crushed stone, brick, shale, or other unbound mineral aggregate.
"The French Open is played on clay."
4
The material of the human body.

verb

1
To add clay to, to spread clay onto.
2
(of sugar) To purify using clay.
"1809, Jonathan Williams, On the Process of Claying Sugar, in Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, Volume 6."

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