asbestos Noun
Any of several fibrous mineral forms of magnesium silicate, used for fireproofing, electrical insulation, building materials, brake linings, and chemical filters.
- All types of asbestos are potentially carcinogenic when inhaled.
- Asbestos insulation was once ubiquitous.
Derived terms
* asbestosis
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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.
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*: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.
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(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)
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* Clay , New Webster Dictionary of English Language, 1980 edition.
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