English > clay: 5 senses > noun 1, substance| Meaning | A very fine-grained soil that is plastic when moist but hard when fired. |
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| Narrower | Kitty Litter | granulated clay |
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| adobe | The clay from which adobe bricks are made |
| argil | A white clay (especially a white clay used by potters) |
| bentonite | An absorbent aluminum silicate clay formed from volcanic ash |
| china clay, china stone, kaolin, kaoline, porcelain clay, terra alba | A fine usually white clay formed by the weathering of aluminous minerals (as feldspar) |
| daub | material used to daub walls |
| fireclay | A heat-resistant clay |
| pipeclay, terra alba | fine white clay used in making tobacco pipes and pottery and in whitening leather |
| potter's clay, potter's earth | clay that does not contain any iron |
| red clay | clay whose redness results from iron oxide |
| Broader | soil, dirt | The part of the earth's surface consisting of humus and disintegrated rock |
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| Substance of | brick | rectangular block of clay baked by the sun or in a kiln |
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| pottery, clayware | ceramic ware made from clay and baked in a kiln |
| tile, roofing tile | A thin flat slab of fired clay used for roofing |
| Substances | silicon, Si, atomic number 14 | A tetravalent nonmetallic element |
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| Spanish | arcilla, barro |
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| Catalan | argila |
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