clay

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n. 泥土, 肉体, 黏土 [化] 粘土

发音

US /kleɪ/

词形变化

clays 复数 clays clayed claying clays 三单 claying 现在分词 clayed 过去式 clayed 过去分词

别名

claye cley

教材释义与例句

名词

[土壤] 粘土；泥土；肉体；似黏土的东西

a type of heavy sticky earth that can be used for making pots, bricks etc

名词

粘土；泥土；肉体；似黏土的东西

动词

用黏土处理

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    A mineral substance made up of small crystals of silica and alumina, that is ductile when moist; the material of pre-fired ceramics.

    黏土

    不可数
  2. 2.

    An earth material with ductile qualities.

    不可数
  3. 3.

    A tennis court surface made of crushed stone, brick, shale, or other unbound mineral aggregate.

    不可数 体育

    The French Open is played on clay.

  4. 4.

    The material of the human body.

    不可数 宗教

    From clay we are made.

  5. 5.

    A particle less than 3.9 microns in diameter, following the Wentworth scale.

    不可数 地质
  6. 6.

    A clay pigeon.

    非正式 不可数 工程 政治 军事

    We went shooting clays at the weekend.

  7. 7.

    Land or territory of a country or other political region, especially when subject to territorial claims.

    幽默 不可数

    Vilnius is rightful Polish clay.

  8. 8.

    A moth, Mythimna ferrago

    不可数
  9. 9.

    A clay pipe for smoking tobacco.

    不可数
v.
  1. 1.

    To add clay to, to spread clay onto.

    及物
  2. 2.

    To purify using clay.

    及物

    1776, Adam Smith, An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations, Book IV, Chapter 7: Of Colonies, Part 2: Causes of Prosperity of New Colonies, They amounted, therefore, to a prohibition, at first of claying or refining sugar for any foreign market, and at present of claying or refining it for the market, which takes off, perhaps, more than nine-tenths of the whole produce.

词汇关系

名词

同义词 5

remains mud corpse stiff cadaver

上位词 3

body dirt soil

下位词 10

slop mire adobe terra alba argil bentonite China clay cremains daub fireclay

部分词 2

si silicon

整体词 4

brick tile pottery clayware

相关短语

clay pigeon n. 陶土飞靶（盘状, 挺身而出空中供打靶用） clay pigeons clay up clay pit clay pits Clay County clay slate [化] 粘土板岩 clay slates Clay Frisian clay court n. 红土网球场, 沙地球场 clay courts clay courter Clay Cross Clay Center clay courters

词源

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.

来源：wiktionary