clay

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义
发音 klā

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A mineral substance made up of small crystals of silica and alumina, that is ductile when moist; the material of pre-fired ceramics. uncountable,usually
    — 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 […]
  2. An earth material with ductile qualities. uncountable,usually
  3. A tennis court surface made of crushed stone, brick, shale, or other unbound mineral aggregate. uncountable,usually
    — The French Open is played on clay.
  4. The material of the human body. uncountable,usually
    — From clay we are made.
  5. A particle less than 3.9 microns in diameter, following the Wentworth scale. uncountable,usually
  6. A clay pipe for smoking tobacco. uncountable,usually
  7. A clay pigeon. informal,uncountable,usually
    — We went shooting clays at the weekend.
  8. Land or territory of a country or other political region, especially when subject to territorial claims. Internet,humorous,uncountable,usually
    — Vilnius is rightful Polish clay.
  9. A moth, Mythimna ferrago uncountable,usually
动词 v.
  1. To add clay to, to spread clay onto. transitive
  2. To purify using clay. transitive
    — 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.

词形变化

clays plural clays present,singular,third-person claying participle,present clayed participle,past clayed past

词汇关系

反义词
soul spirit
下位词
kaolin kaoline
衍生词
ball clay boulder clay brickclay china clay claybank Clay Banks claybed clay cake clay-cold clay-colored thrush clay court claycourt clay courter clay eater clayen clayey clayfield clayhead claying clayish claykicker Clay Lake clayless claylike claymation claypan clay pigeon claypit clay pit clay shale clay slate clayster claystone clay tablet Clayton clayware claywork common clay Draycott in the Clay feet of clay fiber clay fire clay Holton le Clay iron clay light clay make bricks without clay modeling clay modelling clay nanoclay nonclay organoclay paper clay pipeclay potter's clay salt clay underclay vitrified clay pipe wet one's clay yard of clay clay up
相关词
alluvium

词源

词源 1
Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *gleyH-
Proto-Indo-European *-ós
Proto-Indo-European *gloyHós
Proto-Germanic *klajjaz
Proto-West Germanic *klaij
Old English clǣġ
Middle English cley
English clay
From Middle English cley, clay, from Old English clǣġ (“clay”), from Proto-West Germanic *klaij, from Proto-Germanic *klajjaz (“clay”), derived from Proto-Indo-European *gleyH- (“to glue, paste, stick together”). Cognate with Dutch klei (“clay”), Low German Klei (“clay”), German Klei, Danish klæg (“clay”); compare Ancient Greek γλία (glía), Latin glūten (“glue”) (whence ultimately English glue), Russian глина (glina, “clay”). Related also to clag, clog.
词源 2
Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *gleyH-
Proto-Indo-European *-ós
Proto-Indo-European *gloyHós
Proto-Germanic *klajjaz
Proto-West Germanic *klaij
Old English clǣġ
Middle English cley
English clay
From Middle English cley, clay, from Old English clǣġ (“clay”), from Proto-West Germanic *klaij, from Proto-Germanic *klajjaz (“clay”), derived from Proto-Indo-European *gleyH- (“to glue, paste, stick together”). Cognate with Dutch klei (“clay”), Low German Klei (“clay”), German Klei, Danish klæg (“clay”); compare Ancient Greek γλία (glía), Latin glūten (“glue”) (whence ultimately English glue), Russian глина (glina, “clay”). Related also to clag, clog.
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