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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
clay
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
clay pigeon shooting
heavy/clay (=containing a lot of clay)
▪ The soil was too heavy to grow decent carrots.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
fine
▪ Another obvious way of increasing plasticity is to mix a relatively fine plastic clay with a stiff clay.
▪ She found the finest clay, built a web of wires to spread it on, and sat breathless at her bench.
▪ Jenny took the society through all the processes before and after firing at high temperatures fine porcelain clay.
heavy
▪ Because of the heavy clay content of the material, it was considered that it could not be compacted enough for the development.
▪ Is it sandy or heavy with clay?
▪ But if you have a heavy clay soil, wait for warmer weather.
▪ Avoid spots with heavy clay soil.
▪ I don's like to think of either of you digging in your heavy clay.
▪ The cleared land, a broken and undulating mix of heavy clay and difficult sands, was by no means rich.
▪ I had often wondered why they chose to settle in the thick woodlands on heavy clay.
▪ Lime is spread to help to break up heavy wet clay soils.
red
▪ Under any circumstances the track would be challenging, but intermittent rains have left the turf and red clay sodden and slick.
▪ In Fujian, workers are carving roads into red clay hills, scaling bamboo scaffolding, hauling piles of stone.
▪ We fixed red clay pots to the sides to encourage the birds to breed.
▪ Laterite, a red clay, was used to make roads.
▪ They cart her down to the city burying ground, roll red clay into her eyes.
▪ Guests also can play tennis on red clay courts at a private tennis club.
▪ Mary Pinciotti knows that red clay is good for your garden, despite popular opinion.
white
▪ The white clay is formed where some granite masses have been changed chemically.
▪ Their faces were painted with white clay and vermillion and black paint.
▪ An image of a wild rider, white clay on long hair, circling the pyre where her lover lay.
▪ Having painted my face with white clay, they gave me a crystal and a hollow reed.
■ NOUN
boulder
▪ The calcareous clays, such as East Anglian boulder clay, are alkaline and therefore will not suit azaleas or rhododendrons.
▪ In the last one million years the ice sheets spread a layer of boulder clay across the lowlands.
▪ When the ice melted some shallow lakes remained where boulder clay blocked old river courses.
▪ Their floors are covered by sheets of boulder clay.
▪ Where it was melting a huge pile of boulder clay was built up, as a terminal moraine.
▪ As a result the solid rocks are covered by various mixtures of loose clays, sands and boulders - called boulder clay.
▪ But most of the surface is covered by a thin sheet of boulder clay.
china
▪ The biggest extractive industry in Cornwall today is the mining of china clay.
▪ But china clay production has increased.
▪ Scraperboard a board prepared with black indian ink over a china clay surface.
▪ Drawings are produced by scraping away the ink to expose the china clay surface.
▪ Fine bone china is made from three main raw materials - china stone, china clay and animal bone.
▪ The grit settles in the quarries and the milk-white water is pumped up into tanks where the china clay settles slowly.
▪ Much of the china clay went to the Potteries of Staffordshire to be made into crockery - cups, saucers and plates.
court
▪ Tennis: Hard clay courts are available throughout the town, and excellent facilities on the edge of the resort.
▪ Guests also can play tennis on red clay courts at a private tennis club.
▪ Sampras has won only four matches on the clay courts of Roland Garros since 1996.
mineral
▪ The Thorium versus Potassium cross-plot confirms illite as being the main clay and kaolinite as the secondary clay mineral.
▪ These very weak stones are rich in water, which is bound up in both hydrated salts and clay minerals.
▪ It relies on the preferential absorption on to clay minerals of an ultra-violet sensitive dye.
▪ Quartz, feldspar, and the clay minerals make up the bulk of that contribution.
▪ Chemical weathering is of the greatest importance in producing fine material, as clay minerals are formed by this process.
▪ These clay minerals can form by diagenesis.
▪ This water is so weakly-bound to the clay minerals that it turns to steam at low temperatures.
▪ They are often found mixed with other clay minerals and with calcareous materials.
model
▪ Detroit designers were producing clay models, which suggested they were finished designs that could not be altered.
▪ Work on clay model mock-ups is already under way.
particle
▪ When clay particles are in a random arrangement the clay is more likely to crack or warp.
▪ RNA-like molecules, because of their negatively charged backbones, would tend to coat the outsides of clay particles.
▪ A layer of clay particles placed under the gravel layer is beneficial.
▪ Otherwise a layer of clay particles under the usual fine gravel will suffice.
▪ Peat and clay particles and a layer of gravel is suitable.
▪ Rainsplash washes elements downslope and reduces infiltration capacity by dispersing clay particles into the large interstices of the soil.
pigeon
▪ Anyway no more clay pigeons for Candless.
▪ It's used once a fortnight for clay pigeon shoots.
▪ So the challenge was extended to include a clay pigeon shooting match at Gorebridge between two teams of four.
pipe
▪ Nothing daunted, the bearers of comfort brought a flagon of ale and a long clay pipe.
▪ Then he filled his clay pipe with Prince Albert tobacco mixed with mullein weed for his bronchitis and lit it.
▪ In a small glass cabinet are examples of Tennyson's clay pipes and writing quills.
▪ Dad sat poking the dead ashes in the grate and sucking on his empty clay pipe.
pot
▪ In the flat bottom of his canoe a fire smoulders under a clay pot full of red palm oil.
▪ Yet this nondescript clay pot endures.
▪ As she carried the clay pots, six at a time, from the greenhouse, a light wind scuttled her skirt.
▪ Pour over mixture in clay pot.
▪ In a new departure, Change, somewhat forlorn rows of clay pots confront enlarged versions of coins of the Ottoman Empire.
▪ More clay pots can hold geraniums or other summer flowers that add color to a patio or back yard.
▪ Put the rice in a clay pot or a medium-sized pot.
▪ Of primary importance were the clay pots, so much better suited as containers than the skins and baskets employed by hunters.
soil
▪ These giant worms live in clay soils close to watercourses in the Bass River valley, southeast of Melbourne.
▪ I would dig the grave myself, six feet down into the dense clay soil.
▪ But if you have a heavy clay soil, wait for warmer weather.
▪ Avoid spots with heavy clay soil.
▪ To draw a heavy plough through wet clay soil, a pair of oxen, yoked together was used.
▪ All morning, as we negotiated puddles in the wet clay soil, we were to hear the lovely sound.
▪ The Brigadier and the Captain sank their cavalry boots deep into the clay soil and began looking about.
▪ Lime is spread to help to break up heavy wet clay soils.
tablet
▪ There is evidence that the Babylonians were using sine tables, recorded in cuneiform symbols on clay tablets, long before Hipparchus.
▪ The administration of each territory was finely tuned and certain aspects of it were recorded on clay tablets at the urban centres.
tile
▪ The Clay Roofing Tile Council offers you a free technical advisory service on any aspect of the use of clay tiles.
▪ Today's Keymer hand made clay tiles use similar hand production methods.
▪ Each Keymer clay tile is a work of art, guaranteed one of a kind by the handprint of its maker.
▪ Fore those who aren't colour-shy, Fired Earth has more than 100 shades in its Haute Provence range of clay tiles.
■ VERB
cover
▪ From about the time of the invention of red-figure some black-figure vases are given a white slip covering the orange clay.
▪ She taught me for my first three years of school by writing verses on a wooden tablet covered with clay.
▪ To reduce any problems, the main roof of the house, covered with clay pantiles, has no lead flashings.
form
▪ The clay needs to be quite wet because the act of pressing and forming the clay tends to dry it.
▪ Now the mud and sand have formed strata of clay and sandstone.
make
▪ Excess water lowers the surface tension and makes the clay soft and weak.
▪ If man is made of clay, why not his houses of worship?
▪ Some one had been making clay ashtrays and abstract plant pots.
▪ Louisa made shapes in the clay and Raoul had to guess what they were.
▪ These physical techniques of preparation eliminate air pockets and increase homogenisation of moisture and inclusions making the clay more workable.
▪ The houses are made of clay.
▪ That being of a man. referring to the bible where men were made out of clay.
▪ Hes made out of clay or some kind of shit like that, only he looks like a human.
use
▪ That's why I started using mud and clay.
▪ It's a unique beauty treatment that uses thermal clay and electrical currents to combat cellulite.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
feet of clay
▪ After all, audiences want to be entertained, not see their idols with feet of clay.
▪ Another hero with foot and mouth disease, feet of clay and a mouth less than squeaky clean.
▪ Jay swept away what she had learned in pain about feet of clay and natural caution.
▪ Still, she thought ruefully, most heroes would have feet of clay if studied closely.
▪ The discovery of his idol's feet of clay proves intolerable to the lonely, emotionally stunted fan.
▪ Was it, perhaps, in the 1960s that the notion became clear that no idol can exist without feet of clay?
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Côte des Blancs Topsoil Lignite, sand and clay.
▪ Here we find the features of the deceased preserved in clay masks.
▪ I saw a great crafts shop, full of clay and paints.
▪ In that case the sellers had warranted that a clay pulverising machine would process clay at six tons per hour.
▪ Laterite, a red clay, was used to make roads.
▪ Portraits in clay, wood, oil.
▪ The natural color of the clay communicates its earthy source and the smoky black tones on the surface suggest an ancient origin.
▪ This is an inadvertent consequence of the peculiar defect structure of the clay.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Clay

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.

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.

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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
clay

Old English clæg "stiff, sticky earth; clay," from Proto-Germanic *klaijaz (cognates: Old High German kliwa "bran," German Kleie, Old Frisian klai "clay," Old Saxon klei, Middle Dutch clei, Danish klæg "clay;" also Old English clæman, Old Norse kleima, Old High German kleiman "to cover with clay"), from PIE root *glei- "clay" (cognates: Greek gloios "sticky matter;" Latin gluten "glue;" Old Church Slavonic glina "clay," glenu "slime, mucus;" Old Irish glenim "I cleave, adhere").\n

\nin Scripture, the stuff from which the body of the first man was formed; hence "human body" (especially when dead). Clay pigeon is from 1888. Feet of clay "fundamental weakness" is from Dan. ii:33.

Wiktionary
clay

n. 1 (surname: from=occupations) 2 (given name male from=surnames) transferred from the surname. 3 (given name male diminutive=Clayton).

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WordNet
clay

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

  2. water soaked soil; soft wet earth [syn: mud]

  3. United States general who commanded United States forces in Europe from 1945 to 1949 and who oversaw the Berlin airlift (1897-1978) [syn: Lucius Clay, Lucius DuBignon Clay]

  4. United States politician responsible for the Missouri Compromise between free and slave states (1777-1852) [syn: Henry Clay, the Great Compromiser]

  5. the dead body of a human being [syn: cadaver, corpse, stiff, remains]

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Gazetteer
Clay, AL -- U.S. Census Designated Place in Alabama
Population (2000): 4947
Housing Units (2000): 1683
Land area (2000): 10.311680 sq. miles (26.707128 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.033070 sq. miles (0.085652 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 10.344750 sq. miles (26.792780 sq. km)
FIPS code: 15256
Located within: Alabama (AL), FIPS 01
Location: 33.700037 N, 86.623032 W
ZIP Codes (1990):
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Clay, AL
Clay
Clay, KY -- U.S. city in Kentucky
Population (2000): 1179
Housing Units (2000): 541
Land area (2000): 0.906318 sq. miles (2.347352 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 0.906318 sq. miles (2.347352 sq. km)
FIPS code: 15202
Located within: Kentucky (KY), FIPS 21
Location: 37.477969 N, 87.820922 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 42404
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Clay, KY
Clay
Clay, WV -- U.S. town in West Virginia
Population (2000): 593
Housing Units (2000): 316
Land area (2000): 0.573064 sq. miles (1.484230 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.060451 sq. miles (0.156568 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 0.633515 sq. miles (1.640798 sq. km)
FIPS code: 15676
Located within: West Virginia (WV), FIPS 54
Location: 38.462855 N, 81.080024 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 25043
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Clay, WV
Clay
Clay -- U.S. County in Kentucky
Population (2000): 24556
Housing Units (2000): 9439
Land area (2000): 471.009801 sq. miles (1219.909733 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.069320 sq. miles (0.179538 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 471.079121 sq. miles (1220.089271 sq. km)
Located within: Kentucky (KY), FIPS 21
Location: 37.180607 N, 83.740232 W
Headwords:
Clay
Clay, KY
Clay County
Clay County, KY
Clay -- U.S. County in Iowa
Population (2000): 17372
Housing Units (2000): 7828
Land area (2000): 568.887016 sq. miles (1473.410544 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 3.627150 sq. miles (9.394276 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 572.514166 sq. miles (1482.804820 sq. km)
Located within: Iowa (IA), FIPS 19
Location: 43.103200 N, 95.156090 W
Headwords:
Clay
Clay, IA
Clay County
Clay County, IA
Clay -- U.S. County in Illinois
Population (2000): 14560
Housing Units (2000): 6394
Land area (2000): 469.248887 sq. miles (1215.348986 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.589007 sq. miles (1.525520 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 469.837894 sq. miles (1216.874506 sq. km)
Located within: Illinois (IL), FIPS 17
Location: 38.737029 N, 88.470910 W
Headwords:
Clay
Clay, IL
Clay County
Clay County, IL
Clay -- U.S. County in Alabama
Population (2000): 14254
Housing Units (2000): 6612
Land area (2000): 605.073966 sq. miles (1567.134311 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.927817 sq. miles (2.403035 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 606.001783 sq. miles (1569.537346 sq. km)
Located within: Alabama (AL), FIPS 01
Location: 33.265810 N, 85.842858 W
Headwords:
Clay
Clay, AL
Clay County
Clay County, AL
Clay -- U.S. County in Kansas
Population (2000): 8822
Housing Units (2000): 4084
Land area (2000): 643.841746 sq. miles (1667.542397 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 11.599568 sq. miles (30.042743 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 655.441314 sq. miles (1697.585140 sq. km)
Located within: Kansas (KS), FIPS 20
Location: 39.357193 N, 97.146911 W
Headwords:
Clay
Clay, KS
Clay County
Clay County, KS
Clay -- U.S. County in Indiana
Population (2000): 26556
Housing Units (2000): 11097
Land area (2000): 357.617036 sq. miles (926.223832 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 2.775799 sq. miles (7.189285 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 360.392835 sq. miles (933.413117 sq. km)
Located within: Indiana (IN), FIPS 18
Location: 39.439101 N, 87.119952 W
Headwords:
Clay
Clay, IN
Clay County
Clay County, IN
Clay -- U.S. County in Minnesota
Population (2000): 51229
Housing Units (2000): 19746
Land area (2000): 1045.243534 sq. miles (2707.168209 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 7.494147 sq. miles (19.409751 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 1052.737681 sq. miles (2726.577960 sq. km)
Located within: Minnesota (MN), FIPS 27
Location: 46.869254 N, 96.568459 W
Headwords:
Clay
Clay, MN
Clay County
Clay County, MN
Clay -- U.S. County in Mississippi
Population (2000): 21979
Housing Units (2000): 8810
Land area (2000): 408.559856 sq. miles (1058.165124 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 7.460400 sq. miles (19.322346 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 416.020256 sq. miles (1077.487470 sq. km)
Located within: Mississippi (MS), FIPS 28
Location: 33.629550 N, 88.722699 W
Headwords:
Clay
Clay, MS
Clay County
Clay County, MS
Clay -- U.S. County in Missouri
Population (2000): 184006
Housing Units (2000): 76230
Land area (2000): 396.348219 sq. miles (1026.537131 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 12.515353 sq. miles (32.414613 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 408.863572 sq. miles (1058.951744 sq. km)
Located within: Missouri (MO), FIPS 29
Location: 39.253674 N, 94.474033 W
Headwords:
Clay
Clay, MO
Clay County
Clay County, MO
Clay -- U.S. County in Nebraska
Population (2000): 7039
Housing Units (2000): 3066
Land area (2000): 573.032951 sq. miles (1484.148466 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.492458 sq. miles (1.275460 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 573.525409 sq. miles (1485.423926 sq. km)
Located within: Nebraska (NE), FIPS 31
Location: 40.521099 N, 98.042256 W
Headwords:
Clay
Clay, NE
Clay County
Clay County, NE
Clay -- U.S. County in North Carolina
Population (2000): 8775
Housing Units (2000): 5425
Land area (2000): 214.702322 sq. miles (556.076438 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 5.894883 sq. miles (15.267676 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 220.597205 sq. miles (571.344114 sq. km)
Located within: North Carolina (NC), FIPS 37
Location: 35.040811 N, 83.790932 W
Headwords:
Clay
Clay, NC
Clay County
Clay County, NC
Clay -- U.S. County in Tennessee
Population (2000): 7976
Housing Units (2000): 3959
Land area (2000): 236.109850 sq. miles (611.521677 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 23.143592 sq. miles (59.941625 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 259.253442 sq. miles (671.463302 sq. km)
Located within: Tennessee (TN), FIPS 47
Location: 36.564515 N, 85.548616 W
Headwords:
Clay
Clay, TN
Clay County
Clay County, TN
Clay -- U.S. County in Texas
Population (2000): 11006
Housing Units (2000): 4992
Land area (2000): 1097.817446 sq. miles (2843.334012 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 18.357402 sq. miles (47.545451 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 1116.174848 sq. miles (2890.879463 sq. km)
Located within: Texas (TX), FIPS 48
Location: 33.774574 N, 98.191211 W
Headwords:
Clay
Clay, TX
Clay County
Clay County, TX
Clay -- U.S. County in South Dakota
Population (2000): 13537
Housing Units (2000): 5438
Land area (2000): 411.600555 sq. miles (1066.040497 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 5.099059 sq. miles (13.206502 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 416.699614 sq. miles (1079.246999 sq. km)
Located within: South Dakota (SD), FIPS 46
Location: 42.888221 N, 96.977391 W
Headwords:
Clay
Clay, SD
Clay County
Clay County, SD
Clay -- U.S. County in West Virginia
Population (2000): 10330
Housing Units (2000): 4836
Land area (2000): 342.398884 sq. miles (886.809002 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 1.421455 sq. miles (3.681552 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 343.820339 sq. miles (890.490554 sq. km)
Located within: West Virginia (WV), FIPS 54
Location: 38.459274 N, 81.079453 W
Headwords:
Clay
Clay, WV
Clay County
Clay County, WV
Clay -- U.S. County in Florida
Population (2000): 140814
Housing Units (2000): 53748
Land area (2000): 601.107492 sq. miles (1556.861192 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 42.586405 sq. miles (110.298278 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 643.693897 sq. miles (1667.159470 sq. km)
Located within: Florida (FL), FIPS 12
Location: 30.000401 N, 81.823736 W
Headwords:
Clay
Clay, FL
Clay County
Clay County, FL
Clay -- U.S. County in Arkansas
Population (2000): 17609
Housing Units (2000): 8498
Land area (2000): 639.298028 sq. miles (1655.774222 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 2.117764 sq. miles (5.484984 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 641.415792 sq. miles (1661.259206 sq. km)
Located within: Arkansas (AR), FIPS 05
Location: 36.364388 N, 90.400570 W
Headwords:
Clay
Clay, AR
Clay County
Clay County, AR
Clay -- U.S. County in Georgia
Population (2000): 3357
Housing Units (2000): 1925
Land area (2000): 195.208226 sq. miles (505.586964 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 21.786309 sq. miles (56.426278 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 216.994535 sq. miles (562.013242 sq. km)
Located within: Georgia (GA), FIPS 13
Location: 31.621252 N, 84.992877 W
Headwords:
Clay
Clay, GA
Clay County
Clay County, GA
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Wikipedia
Clay

'''Clay '''is a fine-grained natural rock or soil material that combines one or more clay minerals with traces of metal oxides and organic matter. Clays are plastic due to their water content and become hard, brittle and non–plastic upon drying or firing. Geologic clay deposits are mostly composed of phyllosilicate minerals containing variable amounts of water trapped in the mineral structure. Depending on the soil's content in which it is found, clay can appear in various colours from white to dull gray or brown to deep orange-red.

Clays are distinguished from other fine-grained soils by differences in size and mineralogy. Silts, which are fine-grained soils that do not include clay minerals, tend to have larger particle sizes than clays. There is, however, some overlap in particle size and other physical properties, and many naturally occurring deposits include both silts and clay. The distinction between silt and clay varies by discipline. Geologists and soil scientists usually consider the separation to occur at a particle size of 2 µm (clays being finer than silts), sedimentologists often use 4–5 μm, and colloid chemists use 1 μm. Geotechnical engineers distinguish between silts and clays based on the plasticity properties of the soil, as measured by the soils' Atterberg limits. ISO 14688 grades clay particles as being smaller than 2 μm and silt particles as being larger.

Clay (disambiguation)

Clay is a material primarily composed of a grouping of clay minerals, and can be used as an art medium.

Clay may also refer to:

  • The designation for the smallest particle size of granular material, regardless of composition
Clay (short story)

"Clay" is a short story by James Joyce published in his 1914 collection Dubliners.

Clay (novel)

Clay is a children's/young adult novel by David Almond, published in 2005. It was shortlisted for the Carnegie Medal and longlisted for the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize.

It was adapted for television in 2008 by Andrew Gunn, and aired on BBC One on March 30, 2008.

Clay (2008 film)

Clay is a 2008 British TV film drama directed by Andrew Gunn and starring Harry McEntire (Davie) and Ben Davies (Stephen Rose).

The screenplay by Peter Tabern is based on the 1998 novel of the same name by David Almond.

Clay (musical)

Clay is a 2008 Hip-hop musical loosely based on Shakespeare's Henry IV, Parts 1 and 2. The central character, Sir John, is based on Falstaff. It was written and performed by Matt Sax. The first performance was at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe.

Clay (1965 film)

Clay is a 1965 Australian drama film directed by Giorgio Mangiamele. The film was nominated for the Golden Palm award at the 1965 Cannes Film Festival, but it lost to The Knack ...and How to Get It.

Clay (name)

Clay is both a surname and a given name. Notable people with the name include:

Surname:

  • Adam Clay (disambiguation), multiple people
  • Alfred Borron Clay (1831–1868), artist
  • Bryan Clay (born 1980), gold medalist in the decathlon at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing
  • Cassius Clay, the original name of famed boxer Muhammad Ali (1942–2016)
  • Cassius Marcellus Clay (politician) (1810–1903), American politician, abolitionist
  • Cassius Marcellus Clay, Sr. (1912–1990), American painter and musician
  • Charles Clay (American football) (born 1989), American football fullback/tight end
  • Craig Clay (born 1992), English footballer
  • Edward Sneyd Clay (c. 1768–1846), British naval officer
  • Edward Clay (born 1945), British diplomat
  • Eric Clay (1922–2007), British rugby league referee
  • Frederic Clay (1838-1889), British composer
  • Grady Clay (1916–2013), American journalist
  • Henry Clay (1777–1852), leading American statesman and orator
  • James Clay (disambiguation), multiple people
  • John Clay (disambiguation), multiple people
  • Lacy Clay (born 1956), U.S. House Representative
  • Lucius D. Clay (1897–1978), American general and military governor
  • Meilani Clay (born 1988), American poetry slam champion
  • Otis Clay (1942–2016), American R&B and soul singer
  • Philippe Clay (1927–2007), French singer
  • Rudolph M. Clay (1936–2013), American politician

Given name:

  • Clay Aiken (born 1978), popular music singer
  • Clay Buchholz (born 1984), Major League Baseball pitcher for the Boston Red Sox
  • Clay Cook (born 1978), guitarist, keyboardist, mandolinist, steel guitarist, and vocalist in Zac Brown Band
  • Clay Hensley (born 1979), professional baseball player
  • Clay Higgins (born 1961), American politician
  • Clay S. Jenkinson (born 1955), Rhodes Scholar and popular historical reenacto
  • Clay Matthews, Sr. (born 1928), former offensive tackle for the San Francisco 49ers
  • Clay Matthews, Jr. (born 1956), former linebacker for the Cleveland Browns and Atlanta Falcons, son of former
  • Clay Matthews III (born 1986), current linebacker for the Green Bay Packers, son of former
  • Clay Regazzoni (1939–2006), Swiss racing car driver

Fictional characters:

  • Clay Bailey, a character in the animated television series Xiaolin Showdown
  • Clay Danvers,a character on Bitten
  • Clay Morrow, a character on Sons of Anarchy
  • Clay (Pokémon), a character of the Pokémon universe
  • Clay Simons, a character in Grand Theft Auto: The Lost and Damned
  • Faceas Clay, an antagonist from the Strider Manga and NES Game
  • Clay Terran, a character from the series Ace Attorney
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Usage examples of "clay".

One came from Senator Clay of Georgia, one of the ablest of the Democratic leaders.

So again the decision was left to the House of Representatives, where Speaker of the House Henry Clay used his influence to make John Quincy Adams president.

A dozen men dressed most of them in what looked to be pajamas and all of them in rags squatting under the shade of some willows and eating with tin spoons off of clay plates.

So the saddle Longarm had salvaged for his trotting mule cradled the bigger frame of an Anglo rider as if the bare wood had been molded to his thighs and pelvis like clay.

He gestured toward the great longhouse built of rough-hewn timber and smeared over with clay so that it looked as though it had been painted with colorful designs.

His earliest remains have come, so far, from much the same African latitude: a fossilized skull and some other fragments from a Middle Stone Age site near Khartoum in the Sudan, and another skull and some bones from beneath thick clay at Asselar, some two hundred miles northeast of Timbuktu in the western Sudan.

Clay had paid for it, but the Bahamian company that held its title was owned completely by his father.

As regards the soil, the gullies at Anzac on the spurs of Sari Bahr were quite bewildering in their heaped up confusion, partly rocky, but mainly a sort of red clay and very steep.

But now John Kennedy had allowed events to drift toward an even more explosive outcome, and as his brother dueled indecisively by phone with Governor Barnett, the ghosts of the old South were rising from the clay soil and recapturing the state of Mississippi.

The women laid slabs of tough dark bread down on the basketwork platters, then piled on the meat and other dishes, or brought clay bowls marked with waving patterns.

Having Cassius Clay speaking on the riverboat had got the belowdecks folks into a state, and some of them were quite angry at Clay for making white folks feel guilty.

I was not hearing the wonderful sound but feeling it in the pulse of a piece of clay, and then I was in my old classroom in the monastery and a bunch of boys were looking at me with eyes like owls and I was desperately trying to explain something very important.

The earliest burnt bricks known are those found on the sites of the ancient cities of Babylonia, and it seems probable that the method of making strong and durable bricks, by burning blocks of dried clay, was discovered in this corner of Asia.

These bricks were made of a mixture of clay and chopped straw or reeds, worked into a stiff paste with water.

So now the two of them had on nothing but their trousers, and already out in the sunlight there was enough dust and sweat that their bodies were looking a little streaked and cakey with clay.