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Adobe vs Clay - What's the difference?

adobe | clay |

As nouns the difference between adobe and clay

is that adobe is an unburnt brick dried in the sun while clay is a mineral substance made up of small crystals of silica and alumina, that is ductile when moist; the material of pre-fired ceramics.

As a verb clay is

to add clay to, to spread clay onto.

As a proper noun Clay is

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adobe

English

(wikipedia adobe)

Noun

(en-noun)
  • An unburnt brick dried in the sun.
    • Many people in Texas and New Mexico live in adobe houses.
  • * (rfdate) O’Henry, Cabbages and Kings
    • Stone sidewalks, little more than a ledge in width, ran along the base of the mean and monotonous adobe houses.
  • * (rfdate) O’Henry, Roads of Destiny
    • “Find me a nice, clean adobe wall,” says he, “and send Senor Rompiro up against it.”
  • * (rfdate) Star Wars script
    • The Jawas mutter gibberish as they busily line up their battered captives, including Artoo and Threepio, in front of the enormous Sandcrawler, which is parked beside a small homestead consisting of three large holes in the ground surrounded by several tall moisture vaporators and one small adobe block house.
  • * 26 May 2003 , Roger Angell, in The New Yorker ,
    • The Sangre de Cristos came into view and the first soft-cornered adobe houses, and that night we ate at La Fonda with my Aunt Elsie, who worked for the Indian Bureau, and had Hopi snake dances and San Ildefonso pottery-makers and Mabel Dodge Luhan in store for us in the coming weeks.
  • A house made of adobe brick.
  • * {{quote-news, 2007, March 11, Ralph Blumenthal, Prosecutor’s Ouster Shifts Political Order, New York Times citation
    • , passage=The snow-dusted mesas and million-dollar adobes look enchanting as ever

    Synonyms

    * mudbrick (definition 1)

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    References

    * adobe, Online Etymology Dictionary English terms derived from Arabic English terms derived from Spanish ----

    clay

    English

    Noun

    (en-noun)
  • A mineral substance made up of small crystals of silica and alumina, that is ductile when moist; the material of pre-fired ceramics.
  • *
  • *:Three chairs of the steamer type, all maimed, comprised the furniture of this roof-garden, with (by way of local colour) on one of the copings a row of four red clay flower-pots filled with sun-baked dust.
  • An earth material with ductile qualities.
  • (lb) A tennis court surface.
  • :
  • (lb) The material of the human body.
  • *1611 , Old Testament , King James Version, (w) 10:8-9:
    • Thine hands have made me and fashioned me together round about...thou hast made me as the clay .
  • *1611 , Old Testament , King James Version, (w) 64:8:
  • *:But now, O Lord, thou art our Father; we are the clay , and thou art our potter; and we are the work of thy hand.
  • (lb) A particle less than 3.9 microns in diameter, following the Wentworth scale.
  • A clay pigeon.

    • Antonyms

    * (material of the human body) soul, spirit

    Hyponyms

    * kaolin, kaoline * ball clay * fire clay * potter's clay

    Derived terms

    * ball clay * claying * clayen * clayey * claymation * clay pigeon * fire clay * modelling clay * potter's clay

    See also

    * alluvium

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To add clay to, to spread clay onto.
  • (of sugar) To purify using clay.
  • * 1776 , , 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.
  • * 1809', Jonathan Williams, '' On the Process of '''Claying Sugar'', in ''Transactions of the American Philosophical Society , Volume 6.
  • * 1985 , Stuart B. Schwartz, Sugar Plantations in the Formation of Brazilian Society: Bahia, 1550-1835 , page 200,
    • The Portuguese had mastered the technique of claying sugar, and other European nations tried to learn the secrets from them.

    References

    * Krueger, Dennis (December 1982). "Why On Earth Do They Call It Throwing?" Studio Potter Vol. 11, Number 1.[http://www.studiopotter.org/articles/?art=art0001] (etymology) * * Clay , New Webster Dictionary of English Language, 1980 edition.

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