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clay

/kley/US // kleɪ //UK // (kleɪ) //

粘土,泥土,黏土,泥巴

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a natural earthy material that is plastic when wet, consisting essentially of hydrated silicates of aluminum: used for making bricks, pottery, etc.
    • : earth; mud.
    • : earth, especially regarded as the material from which the human body was formed.
    • : the human body, especially as distinguished from the spirit or soul; the flesh.
    • : human character as estimated according to fineness of constitution, endowments, etc.: The saints and heroes seem of a different clay from most of us.
v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : to treat or mix with clay; cover, daub, or fill with clay.
    • : to filter through clay.

Phrases

  • clay pigeon
  • feet of clay

Synonyms & Antonyms

Examples

  • When you melt the clay, you destroy the statue but you don’t destroy the clay from which the statue is formed.

  • The Millennium engineers called for a clay covering to protect the embankment from erosion, as well as closely monitoring the project.

  • The water was yellowish, thick, full of clay, stinking of oil and sewage.

  • What’s new is breaking the clay down to a nanoparticle level and getting a liquid substance that can be easily sprayed onto land.

  • He explains that the dinos had been walking on a surface of clay.

  • But, together, Webster, Clay, and Calhoun delayed the Civil War for 40 years.

  • Clay engineered the morally indefensible Missouri Compromise.

  • From the 1820s to the 1850s, the upper house was dominated by Daniel Webster, Henry Clay, and John Calhoun.

  • It just changed into something quite dark and unattractive with Clay, and was a unique moment in my artistic career.

  • Horace was athletic and clever, known, probably apocryphally, as the fastest cotton picker in Clay County.

  • The British had fired 143 cannon shot into the fort before the arrival of Gen. Clay.

  • Only the laborers on the plantations smoke small clay pipes.

  • They use those with long, straight stems, and both their clay and porcelain pipes are of the finest form and finish.

  • Papier maché buttons came in with Henry Clay's patent in 1778.

  • It is the custom in the English forts to make every Indian who comes to trade, a present of a clay pipe filled with tobacco.