clay
Betekenis (English)
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- A mineral substance made up of small crystals of silica and alumina, that is ductile when moist; the material of pre-fired ceramics.
- An earth material with ductile qualities.
- A tennis court surface made of crushed stone, brick, shale, or other unbound mineral aggregate.
- The material of the human body.
- A particle less than 3.9 microns in diameter, following the Wentworth scale.
- A clay pipe for smoking tobacco.
- (informal) A clay pigeon.
- Land or territory of a country or other political region, especially when subject to territorial claims.
- A moth, Mythimna ferrago
Concepten
Synonyms
dead body
white clay
wet ground
clayey soil
brown clay
clay particle
cl
potter’s clay
clay soil
be muddy
soft ground
hargil
soft mud
wet dirt
slippery ground
bolt agril
whitish soil
white bole
tenacious clay
clay moth
sticky stuff
hard ground
Frequentie
Uitgesproken als (IPA)
/kleɪ/
Etymologie (English)
In summary
From Middle English cley, clay, from Old English clǣġ (“clay”), from Proto-West Germanic *klaij, from Proto-Germanic *klajjaz (“clay”), from Proto-Indo-European *gley- (“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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