clay
A mineral substance made up of small crystals of silica and alumina, that is ductile when moist; the material of pre-fired ceramics.
Noun 4 meanings
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 French Open is played on clay.”
The material of the human body.
“From clay we are made.”
Verb 2 meanings
To add clay to, to spread clay onto.
To purify using clay.
Etymology
From Middle English cley, clay, from Old English clǣġ (“clay”), from Proto-West Germanic *klaij, from Proto-Germanic *klajjaz (“clay”), derived from Proto-Indo-European *gleyH- (“to glue, paste, stick together”).
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CLAY at a glance
CLAY has 4 letters and scores 9 points in Scrabble (C 3 + L 1 + A 1 + Y 4) and 10 in Words With Friends, before board bonuses. It ranks #4,276 by how often it appears in everyday English. It is valid in ENABLE, NWL2023, Collins/SOWPODS.
Rhymes with clay
All rhymes- PLAY9
- DISPLAY13
- DELAY9
- GAMEPLAY16
- RELAY8
- REPLAY11
- SCREENPLAY17
- COSPLAY14
- SLAY7
- OVERLAY13
- INTERPLAY14
- FOREPLAY16
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