Clay vs Shake - 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.
(ergative) To cause (something) to move rapidly in opposite directions alternatingly.
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, chapter=19 To move (one's head) from side to side, especially to indicate a negative.
To move or remove by agitating; to throw off by a jolting or vibrating motion.
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* (John Bunyan) (1628-1688)
To disturb emotionally; to shock.
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, title= To lose, evade, or get rid of (something).
To move from side to side.
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, title= To shake hands.
To dance.
To give a tremulous tone to; to trill.
The act of shaking something.
A milkshake.
A beverage made by adding ice cream to a (usually carbonated) drink; a float.
Shake cannabis, small, leafy fragments of cannabis that gather at the bottom of a bag of marijuana.
(building material) A thin shingle.
A crack or split between the growth rings in wood.
A fissure in rock or earth.
(informal) Instant, second. (Especially (in two shakes).)
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(nautical) One of the staves of a hogshead or barrel taken apart.
(music) A rapid alternation of a principal tone with another represented on the next degree of the staff above or below it; a trill.
A shook of staves and headings.
(UK, dialect) The redshank, so called from the nodding of its head while on the ground.
(Webster 1913)
As a proper noun clay
is .As a verb shake is
(ergative) to cause (something) to move rapidly in opposite directions alternatingly.As a noun shake is
the act of shaking something.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
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(wikipedia shake)Verb
citation, passage=Meanwhile Nanny Broome was recovering from her initial panic and seemed anxious to make up for any kudos she might have lost, by exerting her personality to the utmost. She took the policeman's helmet and placed it on a chair, and unfolded his tunic to shake it and fold it up again for him.}}
- Shake off the golden slumber of repose.
- I could scarcely shake him out of my company.
The attack of the MOOCs, passage=Since the launch early last year of […] two Silicon Valley start-ups offering free education through MOOCs, massive open online courses, the ivory towers of academia have been shaken to their foundations. University brands built in some cases over centuries have been forced to contemplate the possibility that information technology will rapidly make their existing business model obsolete.}}
The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=The slightest effort made the patient cough. He would stand leaning on a stick and holding a hand to his side, and when the paroxysm had passed it left him shaking .}}
Derived terms
* more than one can shake a stick at * shake a leg * shake and bake, shake 'n bake * shake hands * shake off * shake one's ass * shake one's head * shake on it * shake the pagoda tree * shake upNoun
(en noun)- The cat gave the mouse a shake .
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