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1. clay
noun. ['ˈkleɪ'] a very fine-grained soil that is plastic when moist but hard when fired.
Synonyms
Etymology
- clay (Middle English (1100-1500))
Rhymes with Clay
- waga
- compusa
- communique
- yakutakay
- redisplay
- papier-mache
- l'espalier
- cluj
- cabriolet
- underplay
- societe
- san-jose
- naivete
- mcgarvey
- jonbenet
- intraday
- dunlavey
- chevrolet
- buga
- aaa
- zepa
- underway
- underpay
- santa-fe
- portray
- pinochet
- overstay
- overplay
- monterrey
- meservey
How do you pronounce clay?
Pronounce clay as kleɪ.
US - How to pronounce clay in American English
UK - How to pronounce clay in British English
Sentences with clay
1. Noun, singular or mass
Make a die cut stand up by sticking its bottom edge into a base that you shape from clay.
2. Verb, non-3rd person singular present
In the 1900s, parents generally gave their children clay whistles as toys.
Quotes about clay
1. Every night I cuddle with a blob of unbaked clay I fashioned in the shape of a woman. But that’s what being in love is all about.
- Jarod Kintz, This is the best book I've ever written, and it still sucks
2. A writer - and, I believe, generally all persons - must think that whatever happens to him or her is a resource. All things have been given to us for a purpose, and an artist must feel this more intensely. All that happens to us, including our humiliations, our misfortunes, our embarrassments, all is given to us as raw material, as clay, so that we may shape our art.
- Jorge Luis Borges, Twenty-Four Conversations with Borges: Interviews by Roberto Alifano 1981-1983
3. We join spokes together in a wheel, but it is the center hole that makes the wagon move.We shape clay into a pot, but it is the emptiness insidethat holds whatever we want.We hammer wood for a house, but it is the inner spacethat makes it livable.We work with being, but non-being is what we use.
- Lao Tzu
4. Clay
noun. United States politician responsible for the Missouri Compromise between free and slave states (1777-1852).
Synonyms
5. clay
noun. ['ˈkleɪ'] the dead body of a human being.
Antonyms
Etymology
- clay (Middle English (1100-1500))
