clays
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/kleɪz/
English
Definitions
noun
- 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.
verb
- To add clay to, to spread clay onto.
- (of sugar) To purify using clay.“1809, Jonathan Williams, On the Process of Claying Sugar, in Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, Volume 6.”
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