Clay vs Concrete - What's the difference?
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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.
Particular, perceivable, real.
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Not abstract.
* John Stuart Mill
* I. Watts
United in growth; hence, formed by coalition of separate particles into one mass; united in a solid form.
* Bishop Burnet
Made of concrete building material.
A building material created by mixing cement, water, and aggregate including gravel and sand.
A solid mass formed by the coalescence of separate particles.
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(US) A dessert of frozen custard with various toppings.
* 2010 , June Naylor, Judy Wiley, Insiders' Guide to Dallas and Fort Worth (page 54)
* John Lutz, Diamond Eyes (page 170)
(logic) A term designating both a quality and the subject in which it exists; a concrete term.
* John Stuart Mill
Sugar boiled down from cane juice to a solid mass.
To cover with or encase in concrete; often constructed as concrete over .
To solidify.
To unite or coalesce, as separate particles, into a mass or solid body.
* Arbuthnot
As nouns the difference between clay and concrete
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 concrete is a building material created by mixing cement, water, and aggregate including gravel and sand.As verbs the difference between clay and concrete
is that clay is to add clay to, to spread clay onto while concrete is to cover with or encase in concrete; often constructed as concrete over.As a proper noun Clay
is {{surname|from=occupations}.As an adjective concrete is
particular, perceivable, real.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.
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Anagrams
*concrete
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- Fuzzy videotapes and distorted sound recordings are not concrete evidence that bigfoot exists.
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- Once arrested, I realized that handcuffs are concrete , even if my concept of what is legal wasn’t.
- The names of individuals are concrete , those of classes abstract.
- Concrete terms, while they express the quality, do also express, or imply, or refer to, some subject to which it belongs.
- The first concrete state, or consistent surface, of the chaos must be of the same figure as the last liquid state.
- The office building had concrete flower boxes out front.
Synonyms
* (perceivable) tangible * (not abstract) tangibleAntonyms
* (perceivable) intangible * (not abstract) intangible, abstractNoun
(wikipedia concrete) (-)- The road was made of concrete that had been poured in large slabs.
- "...upon the suppos’d (term) made by the fire, of the former sort of Concretes , there are wont to emerge Bodies resembling those which they take for the Elements...
- Besides cones, Curley's serves sundaes, and concretes —custard with all sorts of yummy goodness blended in, like pecans, caramel, almonds,
- When Nudger and Claudia were finished eating they drove to the Ted Drewes frozen custard stand on Chippewa and stood in line for a couple of chocolate chip concretes .
- The concretes "father" and "son" have, or might have, the abstracts "paternity" and "filiety".
Derived terms
* -crete * reinforced concrete * shotcreteSee also
* cement * mortar * UHPCVerb
(concret)- I hate grass, so I concreted over my lawn.
- Josie’s plans began concreting once she fixed a date for the wedding.
- The blood of some who died of the plague could not be made to concrete .
