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Clay

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Noun

1. clay

a very fine-grained soil that is plastic when moist but hard when fired

2. clay, mud

water soaked soil; soft wet earth

3. clay, lucius clay, lucius dubignon clay

United States general who commanded United States forces in Europe from 1945 to 1949 and who oversaw the Berlin airlift (1897-1978)

4. clay, henry clay, the great compromiser

United States politician responsible for the Missouri Compromise between free and slave states (1777-1852)

5. cadaver, clay, corpse, remains, stiff

the dead body of a human being

Example Sentences:
'the cadaver was intended for dissection'
'the end of the police search was the discovery of a corpse'
'the murderer confessed that he threw the stiff in the river'
'honor comes to bless the turf that wraps their clay'

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.


Clay

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noun
1. 
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. 
earth or mud in general
3. poetic
the material of the human body
verb
4. (transitive)
to cover or mix with clay
noun
1. 
Cassius
Muhammad Ali
2. 
Henry. 1777–1852, US statesman and orator; secretary of state (1825–29)

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Clay

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Henry1777-1852; U.S. statesman & orator
noun
1. 
a. 
a firm, fine-grained earth, plastic when wet, composed chiefly of hydrous aluminum silicate minerals: it is produced by the chemical decomposition of rocks or the deposit of fine rock particles in water and is used in the manufacture of bricks, pottery, and other ceramics
b. 
soil composed of mineral particles of very small size
2. 
a. 
earth, esp. as a symbol of the material of the human body
b. 
the human body

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Clay

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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. Geology A sedimentary material with grains smaller than 0.002 millimeter in diameter.
3. Moist sticky earth; mud.
4. The human body as opposed to the spirit.
American army officer who commanded US forces in Germany (1945-1949) and oversaw the Berlin airlift (1948-1949).
American politician who pushed the Missouri Compromise through the US House of Representatives (1820) in an effort to reconcile free and slave states.
See Muhammad Ali.
American abolitionist and public official who was minister to Russia (1861-1862 and 1863-1869).

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