clay的意思|clay的解释-里氏词典

clay [kle]

n. 泥土, 肉体, 黏土

[化] 粘土

[医] 土, 粘土

Bricks and dishes are made from various kinds of clay.
砖和盘子由各种粘土制成。
It was said that the first man was moulded from clay by some kind of god.
据传，第一个人是某个神用泥土造出来的。
Earth, rocks, or clay excavated in mining.
废石在采矿过程中挖掘的土、岩石或粘土

clay

[ noun ]

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

<noun.substance>

water soaked soil; soft wet earth

<noun.substance>

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

<noun.person>

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

<noun.person>

the dead body of a human being

<noun.body>

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

Clay \Clay\ (kl[=a]), n. [AS. cl[=ae]g; akin to LG. klei, D.
klei, and perh. to AS. cl[=a]m clay, L. glus, gluten glue,
Gr. gloio`s glutinous substance, E. glue. Cf. {Clog}.]
1. A soft earth, which is plastic, or may be molded with the
hands, consisting of hydrous silicate of aluminium. It is
the result of the wearing down and decomposition, in part,
of rocks containing aluminous minerals, as granite. Lime,
magnesia, oxide of iron, and other ingredients, are often
present as impurities.

2. (Poetry & Script.) Earth in general, as representing the
elementary particles of the human body; hence, the human
body as formed from such particles.

I also am formed out of the clay. --Job xxxiii.
6.

The earth is covered thick with other clay,
Which her own clay shall cover. --Byron.

{Bowlder clay}. See under {Bowlder}.

{Brick clay}, the common clay, containing some iron, and
therefore turning red when burned.

{Clay cold}, cold as clay or earth; lifeless; inanimate.

{Clay ironstone}, an ore of iron consisting of the oxide or
carbonate of iron mixed with clay or sand.

{Clay marl}, a whitish, smooth, chalky clay.

{Clay mill}, a mill for mixing and tempering clay; a pug
mill.

{Clay pit}, a pit where clay is dug.

{Clay slate} (Min.), argillaceous schist; argillite.

{Fatty clays}, clays having a greasy feel; they are chemical
compounds of water, silica, and aluminia, as {halloysite},
{bole}, etc.

{Fire clay}, a variety of clay, entirely free from lime,
iron, or an alkali, and therefore infusible, and used for
fire brick.

{Porcelain clay}, a very pure variety, formed directly from
the decomposition of feldspar, and often called {kaolin}.

{Potter's clay}, a tolerably pure kind, free from iron.

Clay \Clay\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Clayed}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Claying}.]
1. To cover or manure with clay.

2. To clarify by filtering through clay, as sugar.

To make matters worse, fill dirt was used atop the clay seam.
Within hours, volunteer diggers were unearthing interesting shards of pottery, including a button-size chip of blue and white Mexican majolica clay used in pottery since the 17th century.
If successful, it could prove applicable not only to Wales, but around the world. The idea is to use trees to generate self-sustaining soil in what is now mostly impermeable clay.
A team from the Smithsonian and the Park Service excavated the site and sifted tons of clay soil to find artifacts.
To compensate for the salt water's movement and to make up for lost time, the Corps might build the sand and clay sill slightly higher than originally planned, Chatry said.
Fate has only just picked up the clay.
Malibu on the sands seems to have feet of clay.
Workers dug a vertical rescue shaft using a huge truck-mounted pipeline excavator that uses a stream of compressed air to chisel away dirt and clay and then vacuums out the loose dirt.
Mrs. Freeman makes "artificial pockets, soil buckets," by excavating the clay to a good depth and replacing it with "decent soil, compost and a bit of dried sheep manure or pigeon dung."
So far, the only clues to these mysterious people are a four-ton stele, or stone slab, covered with hieroglyphic writing and a 19-inch-high clay figure of a fertility-rite priest.
The yellowing film on the marble is absorbed by the clay after being washed away by the detergents, Sahi said.
In the memo, Eye said there was no assurance clay seals in the pits were still watertight.
They created a full-scale clay model in nine weeks beside another full-scale model Tremulis was working on himself.
Excluding clay reserves, which Marley did not value, the businesses had net assets of Pounds 14.7m. The deal gives Marley a way out of the brick business which it has been trying to sell for several years.
Nebraska Senate candidate Robert Kerrey is scoring with an ad featuring an animated clay figure that attacks GOP Sen. David Karnes' assault tactics.
On Christmas Eve 1986, a field crew headed by graduate student Ken Johnson stumbled across pottery, spikes and clay near the Santa Fe River in Alachua County, north of the school's campus in Gainesville.
He presided over the group's expansion into a European building products business, with nearly half its profits coming from overseas; before it had been heavily dependent on clay pipes and the UK economy.
Discovery landed Monday morning on the hard clay bed of Rogers Dry Lake at this Mojave Desert air base, capping a nearly flawless flight that was America's first manned space mission since the Challenger tragedy in 1986.
"The big majority of our members prefer to play on the clay," noted Michael Hoskam, the club's manager.
Bricks and clay tiles, after all, do not easily cross the Channel, so markets affected by the proposed deal will be exclusively regional ones.
The first step in a complicated process that has taken years to set up is to filter the liquid waste through columns filled with zeolite, a sandy clay.
Some of the most beautiful will not survive a serious winter; most of them hate a wet soil or clay.
Lou Harrison, a Northern Californian, can make clay bowls sound like a gamelan.
Then Williams lightly set Atlantis on the clay runway where it rolled to a stop on the black-dotted centerline.
The Wampanoags were eking out a living on the clay cliffs around 1100 when Leif Erickson became the first white man to make contact with them.
Kentucky Fried Chicken has used clay burgers and chicken nuggets, while Hardee's has used clay animation in several commercials of its own.
Kentucky Fried Chicken has used clay burgers and chicken nuggets, while Hardee's has used clay animation in several commercials of its own.
Here in Arlit, a sand-swept settlement guarded by high clay walls, drivers and navigators rise in the dark after an abbreviated night's rest to resume the battle.
"If a tyrannosaurus rex ever ventured into the water around where one of those was, it would have more than had its hands full," Bakker said as he scraped clay from part of the jawbone.
But there is softened clay with which to sculpt.

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