Clayey vs Sandy - What's the difference?
clayey | sandy |
Resembling or containing clay.
* 1812 , Antonio de Alcedo and George Alexander Thompson (translator), The geographical and historical dictionary of America and the West Indies , vol. 2,
*1851 ,
*:Because no man can ever feel his own identity aright except his eyes be closed; as if, darkness were indeed the proper element of our essences, though light be more congenial to our clayey part.
* 2004 , (Richard Fortey), The Earth , Folio Society 2011, p. 85:
Covered with sand.
Sprinkled with sand.
Like sand, especially in texture.
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Having the colour of sand.
As adjectives the difference between clayey and sandy
is that clayey is resembling or containing clay while sandy is covered with sand.As a proper noun Sandy is
a diminutive of the male given name Alexander.As a noun Sandy is
shortened form of Sand Dancer.clayey
English
Adjective
(er)page 13, “Demerara” (J. Carpenter):
- The shores of the rivers and creeks are chiefly planted with coffee, to the distance of about 30 miles from the sea : thence 30 miles farther up, the soil becomes clayey and more fit for sugar-canes.
- Limestone, of course, is calcium carbonate, and thus chemically utterly different in composition from the clayey rocks below and the hard, pebbly ones above.
