Clay vs Claystone - What's the difference?
clay | claystone |
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:
*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.
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,
* 1809', Jonathan Williams, ''
* 1985 , Stuart B. Schwartz, Sugar Plantations in the Formation of Brazilian Society: Bahia, 1550-1835 ,
* 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.
In geology terms the difference between clay and claystone
is that clay is a particle less than 3.9 microns in diameter, following the Wentworth scale while claystone is sedimentary rock composed of fine, clay particles.As nouns the difference between clay and claystone
is that 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 while claystone is sedimentary rock composed of fine, clay particles.As a verb clay
is to add clay to, to spread clay onto.As a proper noun Clay
is {{surname|from=occupations}.clay
English
Noun
(en-noun)- Thine hands have made me and fashioned me together round about...thou hast made me as the clay .
Antonyms
* (material of the human body) soul, spiritHyponyms
* kaolin, kaoline * ball clay * fire clay * potter's clayDerived terms
* ball clay * claying * clayen * clayey * claymation * clay pigeon * fire clay * modelling clay * potter's claySee also
* alluviumVerb
(en verb)- 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.
On the Process of '''ClayingSugar'', in ''Transactions of the American Philosophical Society , Volume 6.
page 200,
- The Portuguese had mastered the technique of claying sugar, and other European nations tried to learn the secrets from them.