Definition of clay in English:

clay

noun kleɪkleɪ

1mass noun A stiff, sticky fine-grained earth that can be moulded when wet, and is dried and baked to make bricks, pottery, and ceramics.
黏土，泥土，陶土
the soil is mainly clay
as modifier a clay soil
a clay tile
count noun the rocks are covered by various mixtures of loose clays and sands
Example sentencesExamples
- He informs me that the ground below Dublin consists predominantly of boulder clay.
- One slope of the mound had clay loam soil and another had sandy loam.
- If you're pregnant or nursing, consult your doctor before using bentonite clay.
- Not only is it waterproof, but it will also dry like baked polymer clays.
- But the fine, white clay called kaolin was essential.
- Children are like wet clay - they take the shape they are moulded into.
- Material culture included leather moccasins, pottery vessels with incised decoration, and clay figurines.
- I've used polymer clay with children from second grade through sixth.
- In 1851, British archaeologists discovered hundreds of clay tablets while digging in ancient Babylon.
- You can apply a layer of bentonite clay to seal the soil or lay a synthetic liner.
- He sat in a rocking chair after dinner and smoked a long clay pipe.
- The later Babylonians adopted the same style of cuneiform writing on clay tablets.
- Actually red clay was used to build it.
- Higher rates must be used in heavy clay soils than in light sandy soils.
- Treat dirt or red clay on children's baseball uniforms in the same manner.
- Both were making clay pots, and everything seemed to be going along well.
- I strongly suggested that the students carve only, fighting the temptation to model the soft clay with their fingers.
- They then cut around the fish template with plastic knives, carefully removing all the excess clay.
- The crafts will include stick making, painting, clay modelling, paper mache, collage and many more.
- The soil is a silty clay loam and located in the Finger Lakes.
Synonyms
earth, terracotta, gault, catlinite, pipeclay, pipestone, argil, china clay, kaolin, adobe, ball clay, bole, pug
slip, barbotine
fireclay
1. 1.1technical Sediment with particles smaller than silt, typically less than 0.002 mm.
  〈技〉过滤黏土（沉淀物，分子小于淤泥，直径多小于0.002毫米）
  Synonyms
  sediment, deposit, alluvium, mud, slime, ooze, sludge
2. 1.2 A hardened clay surface for a tennis court.
  （网球场的）硬固泥地
  she won more matches on clay than any other player
  Example sentencesExamples
  Clay is her worst surface and she is still learning the business of running and winning on a court that turns the legs to jelly and the lungs to cement.
  The fact that clay is the perfect surface on which to learn the game and yet British players are, for the most part, terrified of it, still astounds and perplexes Jones.
  Of the surfaces on which tennis is played - clay, hard court, carpet, synthetic - grass suits above all the serve-and-volley game.
  I mean, the future of tennis lies in clay, and in creating new personalities, so I am not bothered if I am seen in some quarters as being a bit of a loner or a maverick.
  He also became the first player since 1979 to win three titles in a row on three different surfaces - grass, clay and hardcourt.
  Then again, clay is not his surface and the battalions of Argentine baseline craftsmen are always out to get him here.
  Fortunately the competition will be played on a hard court surface and not clay which many of our players are not familiar with.
  ‘I am very, very surprised to be in the quarter-final because normally clay is my favourite surface,’ he said.
  Crucially, they are potent on every surface including the indoor clay chosen for this week's final in Paris.
3. 1.3literary The substance of the human body.
  〈诗/文〉肉体，人体
  this lifeless clay
  这毫无生气的躯体。
  Example sentencesExamples
  Of course, he does this not through imagery alone but through turning the paint itself into a kind of turbulent human clay.
  Some artists, notably Rembrandt, used the genre as a vehicle for ironic commentary on the discrepancies between the ideals of classical art and the faulty human clay of which we are made.
  All things simply revert to their former state, the body of clay unto dust, and the spirit of life unto the One who loaned it for a season.
  It was the rest of him that was made of fallible human clay.
2A European moth with yellowish-brown wings.
黄棕翼欧洲蛾
Several species in the family Noctuidae

Derivatives

clayey

adjective ˈkleɪiˈkleɪi

Containing or resembling clay.
moist, clayey soil
Example sentencesExamples
- Commonly used isolation barriers are composed of compacted natural inorganic clays or clayey soils.
- To maintain a minimum depth of 30 cm with a seepage loss of 3 percent, the streambed will require a 0.5 layer of silty clay or clayey gravel.
- The top 30 m of the subsurface soil strata in Calcutta consists mainly of successive layers of clay, silty clay and clayey silt, and can be subdivided into two horizons based on the relative compressibility of the different strata.

clayish

adjective

A day and a half of digging and riddling had produced several piles of authentic clayish undersoil.
Example sentencesExamples
- The earliest Cambrian clayish sediment surface was relatively firm and its penetration required much energy.
- This is a fine-grained quartz sandstone with clayish matrix.
- The clayish laminae remain intact, showing folded and raised external margins.
- The clayish soil splattered and squished underneath her, but she paid no mind.

clay-like

adjective

Underneath the muskeg is a layer of sand, rock and overburden, a clay-like material.
Example sentencesExamples
- Yesterday's event was deemed too risky and dangerous as rain made the soil turn clay-like.
- The entire backyard and paved courtyard was white with a couple of kilos of these clay-like pellets.
- Heavy soil is clay-like and sticky, especially when wet.
- The powder is then mixed with water and naturally occurring organic binders to form a clay-like substance.

Origin

Old English clǣg, of West Germanic origin; related to Dutch klei, also to cleave² and climb.

clam from early 16th century:
It is not easy to prise apart a clam, and this tight grip lies behind the origin of the word. Clam originally meant ‘a clamp’, and probably had the same source as clamp (Middle English). There is also an English dialect word clam, meaning ‘to be sticky or to stick to something’, which is related to clay (Old English). It is also where clammy—originally spelled claymy—comes from. See also happy

Rhymes

affray, agley, aka, allay, Angers, A-OK, appellation contrôlée, array, assay, astray, au fait, auto-da-fé, away, aweigh, aye, bay, belay, betray, bey, Bombay, Bordet, boulevardier, bouquet, brae, bray, café au lait, Carné, cassoulet, Cathay, chassé, chevet, chez, chiné, convey, Cray, crème brûlée, crudités, cuvée, cy-pres, day, decay, deejay, dégagé, distinguée, downplay, dray, Dufay, Dushanbe, eh, embay, engagé, essay, everyday, faraway, fay, fey, flay, fray, Frey, fromage frais, gainsay, Gaye, Genet, giclee, gilet, glissé, gray, grey, halfway, hay, heigh, hey, hooray, Hubei, Hué, hurray, inveigh, jay, jeunesse dorée, José, Kay, Kaye, Klee, Kray, Lae, lay, lei, Littré, Lough Neagh, lwei, Mae, maguey, Malay, Mallarmé, Mandalay, Marseilles, may, midday, midway, mislay, misplay, Monterrey, Na-Dene, nay, né, née, neigh, Ney, noway, obey, O'Dea, okay, olé, outlay, outplay, outstay, outweigh, oyez, part-way, pay, Pei, per se, pince-nez, play, portray, pray, prey, purvey, qua, Quai d'Orsay, Rae, rangé, ray, re, reflet, relevé, roman-à-clef, Santa Fé, say, sei, Shar Pei, shay, slay, sleigh, sley, spae, spay, Spey, splay, spray, stay, straightaway, straightway, strathspey, stray, Sui, survey, sway, Taipei, Tay, they, today, tokay, Torbay, Tournai, trait, tray, trey, two-way, ukiyo-e, underlay, way, waylay, Wei, weigh, wey, Whangarei, whey, yea

Definition of clay in US English:

clay

nounklākleɪ

1A stiff, sticky fine-grained earth, typically yellow, red, or bluish-gray in color and often forming an impermeable layer in the soil. It can be molded when wet, and is dried and baked to make bricks, pottery, and ceramics.
黏土，泥土，陶土
Example sentencesExamples
- In 1851, British archaeologists discovered hundreds of clay tablets while digging in ancient Babylon.
- Higher rates must be used in heavy clay soils than in light sandy soils.
- He informs me that the ground below Dublin consists predominantly of boulder clay.
- Not only is it waterproof, but it will also dry like baked polymer clays.
- Treat dirt or red clay on children's baseball uniforms in the same manner.
- If you're pregnant or nursing, consult your doctor before using bentonite clay.
- Children are like wet clay - they take the shape they are moulded into.
- Material culture included leather moccasins, pottery vessels with incised decoration, and clay figurines.
- Both were making clay pots, and everything seemed to be going along well.
- The soil is a silty clay loam and located in the Finger Lakes.
- I've used polymer clay with children from second grade through sixth.
- I strongly suggested that the students carve only, fighting the temptation to model the soft clay with their fingers.
- You can apply a layer of bentonite clay to seal the soil or lay a synthetic liner.
- One slope of the mound had clay loam soil and another had sandy loam.
- The crafts will include stick making, painting, clay modelling, paper mache, collage and many more.
- Actually red clay was used to build it.
- They then cut around the fish template with plastic knives, carefully removing all the excess clay.
- The later Babylonians adopted the same style of cuneiform writing on clay tablets.
- He sat in a rocking chair after dinner and smoked a long clay pipe.
- But the fine, white clay called kaolin was essential.
Synonyms
earth, terracotta, gault, catlinite, pipeclay, pipestone, argil, china clay, kaolin, adobe, ball clay, bole, pug
1. 1.1technical Sediment with particles smaller than silt, typically less than 0.00016 inch (0.004 mm).
  〈技〉过滤黏土（沉淀物，分子小于淤泥，直径多小于0.002毫米）
  Synonyms
  sediment, deposit, alluvium, mud, slime, ooze, sludge
2. 1.2 A hardened clay surface for a tennis court.
  （网球场的）硬固泥地
  Example sentencesExamples
  ‘I am very, very surprised to be in the quarter-final because normally clay is my favourite surface,’ he said.
  Clay is her worst surface and she is still learning the business of running and winning on a court that turns the legs to jelly and the lungs to cement.
  Then again, clay is not his surface and the battalions of Argentine baseline craftsmen are always out to get him here.
  The fact that clay is the perfect surface on which to learn the game and yet British players are, for the most part, terrified of it, still astounds and perplexes Jones.
  Fortunately the competition will be played on a hard court surface and not clay which many of our players are not familiar with.
  He also became the first player since 1979 to win three titles in a row on three different surfaces - grass, clay and hardcourt.
  Of the surfaces on which tennis is played - clay, hard court, carpet, synthetic - grass suits above all the serve-and-volley game.
  Crucially, they are potent on every surface including the indoor clay chosen for this week's final in Paris.
  I mean, the future of tennis lies in clay, and in creating new personalities, so I am not bothered if I am seen in some quarters as being a bit of a loner or a maverick.
3. 1.3literary The substance of the human body.
  〈诗/文〉肉体，人体
  this lifeless clay
  这毫无生气的躯体。
  Example sentencesExamples
  Some artists, notably Rembrandt, used the genre as a vehicle for ironic commentary on the discrepancies between the ideals of classical art and the faulty human clay of which we are made.
  Of course, he does this not through imagery alone but through turning the paint itself into a kind of turbulent human clay.
  It was the rest of him that was made of fallible human clay.
  All things simply revert to their former state, the body of clay unto dust, and the spirit of life unto the One who loaned it for a season.

Origin

Old English clǣg, of West Germanic origin; related to Dutch klei, also to cleave and climb.

词汇	clay
释义	Definition of clay in English: clay noun kleɪkleɪ 1mass noun A stiff, sticky fine-grained earth that can be moulded when wet, and is dried and baked to make bricks, pottery, and ceramics. 黏土，泥土，陶土 the soil is mainly clay as modifier a clay soil a clay tile count noun the rocks are covered by various mixtures of loose clays and sands Example sentencesExamples He informs me that the ground below Dublin consists predominantly of boulder clay. One slope of the mound had clay loam soil and another had sandy loam. If you're pregnant or nursing, consult your doctor before using bentonite clay. Not only is it waterproof, but it will also dry like baked polymer clays. But the fine, white clay called kaolin was essential. Children are like wet clay - they take the shape they are moulded into. Material culture included leather moccasins, pottery vessels with incised decoration, and clay figurines. I've used polymer clay with children from second grade through sixth. In 1851, British archaeologists discovered hundreds of clay tablets while digging in ancient Babylon. You can apply a layer of bentonite clay to seal the soil or lay a synthetic liner. He sat in a rocking chair after dinner and smoked a long clay pipe. The later Babylonians adopted the same style of cuneiform writing on clay tablets. Actually red clay was used to build it. Higher rates must be used in heavy clay soils than in light sandy soils. Treat dirt or red clay on children's baseball uniforms in the same manner. Both were making clay pots, and everything seemed to be going along well. I strongly suggested that the students carve only, fighting the temptation to model the soft clay with their fingers. They then cut around the fish template with plastic knives, carefully removing all the excess clay. The crafts will include stick making, painting, clay modelling, paper mache, collage and many more. The soil is a silty clay loam and located in the Finger Lakes. Synonyms earth, terracotta, gault, catlinite, pipeclay, pipestone, argil, china clay, kaolin, adobe, ball clay, bole, pug slip, barbotine fireclay 1.1technical Sediment with particles smaller than silt, typically less than 0.002 mm. 〈技〉过滤黏土（沉淀物，分子小于淤泥，直径多小于0.002毫米） Synonyms sediment, deposit, alluvium, mud, slime, ooze, sludge 1.2 A hardened clay surface for a tennis court. （网球场的）硬固泥地 she won more matches on clay than any other player Example sentencesExamples Clay is her worst surface and she is still learning the business of running and winning on a court that turns the legs to jelly and the lungs to cement. The fact that clay is the perfect surface on which to learn the game and yet British players are, for the most part, terrified of it, still astounds and perplexes Jones. Of the surfaces on which tennis is played - clay, hard court, carpet, synthetic - grass suits above all the serve-and-volley game. I mean, the future of tennis lies in clay, and in creating new personalities, so I am not bothered if I am seen in some quarters as being a bit of a loner or a maverick. He also became the first player since 1979 to win three titles in a row on three different surfaces - grass, clay and hardcourt. Then again, clay is not his surface and the battalions of Argentine baseline craftsmen are always out to get him here. Fortunately the competition will be played on a hard court surface and not clay which many of our players are not familiar with. ‘I am very, very surprised to be in the quarter-final because normally clay is my favourite surface,’ he said. Crucially, they are potent on every surface including the indoor clay chosen for this week's final in Paris. 1.3literary The substance of the human body. 〈诗/文〉肉体，人体 this lifeless clay 这毫无生气的躯体。 Example sentencesExamples Of course, he does this not through imagery alone but through turning the paint itself into a kind of turbulent human clay. Some artists, notably Rembrandt, used the genre as a vehicle for ironic commentary on the discrepancies between the ideals of classical art and the faulty human clay of which we are made. All things simply revert to their former state, the body of clay unto dust, and the spirit of life unto the One who loaned it for a season. It was the rest of him that was made of fallible human clay. 2A European moth with yellowish-brown wings. 黄棕翼欧洲蛾 Several species in the family Noctuidae Derivatives clayey adjective ˈkleɪiˈkleɪi Containing or resembling clay. moist, clayey soil Example sentencesExamples Commonly used isolation barriers are composed of compacted natural inorganic clays or clayey soils. To maintain a minimum depth of 30 cm with a seepage loss of 3 percent, the streambed will require a 0.5 layer of silty clay or clayey gravel. The top 30 m of the subsurface soil strata in Calcutta consists mainly of successive layers of clay, silty clay and clayey silt, and can be subdivided into two horizons based on the relative compressibility of the different strata. clayish adjective A day and a half of digging and riddling had produced several piles of authentic clayish undersoil. Example sentencesExamples The earliest Cambrian clayish sediment surface was relatively firm and its penetration required much energy. This is a fine-grained quartz sandstone with clayish matrix. The clayish laminae remain intact, showing folded and raised external margins. The clayish soil splattered and squished underneath her, but she paid no mind. clay-like adjective Underneath the muskeg is a layer of sand, rock and overburden, a clay-like material. Example sentencesExamples Yesterday's event was deemed too risky and dangerous as rain made the soil turn clay-like. The entire backyard and paved courtyard was white with a couple of kilos of these clay-like pellets. Heavy soil is clay-like and sticky, especially when wet. The powder is then mixed with water and naturally occurring organic binders to form a clay-like substance. Origin Old English clǣg, of West Germanic origin; related to Dutch klei, also to cleave² and climb. clam from early 16th century: It is not easy to prise apart a clam, and this tight grip lies behind the origin of the word. Clam originally meant ‘a clamp’, and probably had the same source as clamp (Middle English). There is also an English dialect word clam, meaning ‘to be sticky or to stick to something’, which is related to clay (Old English). It is also where clammy—originally spelled claymy—comes from. See also happy Rhymes affray, agley, aka, allay, Angers, A-OK, appellation contrôlée, array, assay, astray, au fait, auto-da-fé, away, aweigh, aye, bay, belay, betray, bey, Bombay, Bordet, boulevardier, bouquet, brae, bray, café au lait, Carné, cassoulet, Cathay, chassé, chevet, chez, chiné, convey, Cray, crème brûlée, crudités, cuvée, cy-pres, day, decay, deejay, dégagé, distinguée, downplay, dray, Dufay, Dushanbe, eh, embay, engagé, essay, everyday, faraway, fay, fey, flay, fray, Frey, fromage frais, gainsay, Gaye, Genet, giclee, gilet, glissé, gray, grey, halfway, hay, heigh, hey, hooray, Hubei, Hué, hurray, inveigh, jay, jeunesse dorée, José, Kay, Kaye, Klee, Kray, Lae, lay, lei, Littré, Lough Neagh, lwei, Mae, maguey, Malay, Mallarmé, Mandalay, Marseilles, may, midday, midway, mislay, misplay, Monterrey, Na-Dene, nay, né, née, neigh, Ney, noway, obey, O'Dea, okay, olé, outlay, outplay, outstay, outweigh, oyez, part-way, pay, Pei, per se, pince-nez, play, portray, pray, prey, purvey, qua, Quai d'Orsay, Rae, rangé, ray, re, reflet, relevé, roman-à-clef, Santa Fé, say, sei, Shar Pei, shay, slay, sleigh, sley, spae, spay, Spey, splay, spray, stay, straightaway, straightway, strathspey, stray, Sui, survey, sway, Taipei, Tay, they, today, tokay, Torbay, Tournai, trait, tray, trey, two-way, ukiyo-e, underlay, way, waylay, Wei, weigh, wey, Whangarei, whey, yea Definition of clay in US English: clay nounklākleɪ 1A stiff, sticky fine-grained earth, typically yellow, red, or bluish-gray in color and often forming an impermeable layer in the soil. It can be molded when wet, and is dried and baked to make bricks, pottery, and ceramics. 黏土，泥土，陶土 Example sentencesExamples In 1851, British archaeologists discovered hundreds of clay tablets while digging in ancient Babylon. Higher rates must be used in heavy clay soils than in light sandy soils. He informs me that the ground below Dublin consists predominantly of boulder clay. Not only is it waterproof, but it will also dry like baked polymer clays. Treat dirt or red clay on children's baseball uniforms in the same manner. If you're pregnant or nursing, consult your doctor before using bentonite clay. Children are like wet clay - they take the shape they are moulded into. Material culture included leather moccasins, pottery vessels with incised decoration, and clay figurines. Both were making clay pots, and everything seemed to be going along well. The soil is a silty clay loam and located in the Finger Lakes. I've used polymer clay with children from second grade through sixth. I strongly suggested that the students carve only, fighting the temptation to model the soft clay with their fingers. You can apply a layer of bentonite clay to seal the soil or lay a synthetic liner. One slope of the mound had clay loam soil and another had sandy loam. The crafts will include stick making, painting, clay modelling, paper mache, collage and many more. Actually red clay was used to build it. They then cut around the fish template with plastic knives, carefully removing all the excess clay. The later Babylonians adopted the same style of cuneiform writing on clay tablets. He sat in a rocking chair after dinner and smoked a long clay pipe. But the fine, white clay called kaolin was essential. Synonyms earth, terracotta, gault, catlinite, pipeclay, pipestone, argil, china clay, kaolin, adobe, ball clay, bole, pug 1.1technical Sediment with particles smaller than silt, typically less than 0.00016 inch (0.004 mm). 〈技〉过滤黏土（沉淀物，分子小于淤泥，直径多小于0.002毫米） Synonyms sediment, deposit, alluvium, mud, slime, ooze, sludge 1.2 A hardened clay surface for a tennis court. （网球场的）硬固泥地 Example sentencesExamples ‘I am very, very surprised to be in the quarter-final because normally clay is my favourite surface,’ he said. Clay is her worst surface and she is still learning the business of running and winning on a court that turns the legs to jelly and the lungs to cement. Then again, clay is not his surface and the battalions of Argentine baseline craftsmen are always out to get him here. The fact that clay is the perfect surface on which to learn the game and yet British players are, for the most part, terrified of it, still astounds and perplexes Jones. Fortunately the competition will be played on a hard court surface and not clay which many of our players are not familiar with. He also became the first player since 1979 to win three titles in a row on three different surfaces - grass, clay and hardcourt. Of the surfaces on which tennis is played - clay, hard court, carpet, synthetic - grass suits above all the serve-and-volley game. Crucially, they are potent on every surface including the indoor clay chosen for this week's final in Paris. I mean, the future of tennis lies in clay, and in creating new personalities, so I am not bothered if I am seen in some quarters as being a bit of a loner or a maverick. 1.3literary The substance of the human body. 〈诗/文〉肉体，人体 this lifeless clay 这毫无生气的躯体。 Example sentencesExamples Some artists, notably Rembrandt, used the genre as a vehicle for ironic commentary on the discrepancies between the ideals of classical art and the faulty human clay of which we are made. Of course, he does this not through imagery alone but through turning the paint itself into a kind of turbulent human clay. It was the rest of him that was made of fallible human clay. All things simply revert to their former state, the body of clay unto dust, and the spirit of life unto the One who loaned it for a season. Origin Old English clǣg, of West Germanic origin; related to Dutch klei, also to cleave and climb.
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