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Earth is a synonym of clay.


As proper nouns the difference between earth and clay

is that earth is the third planet in order from the sun, upon which humans live represented in astronomy and astrology by while clay is .

earth

English

(wikipedia earth)

Proper noun

  • Our planet, third out from the Sun; see main entry Earth.
    • The astronauts saw the earth from the porthole.

    Usage notes

    * The word earth' is capitalized to ' Earth when used in context with other celestial bodies.

    Noun

  • (uncountable) Soil.
  • (uncountable) Any general rock-based material.
  • The ground, land (as opposed to the sky or sea).
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-07, author=David Simpson
    • , volume=188, issue=26, page=36, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly) , title= Fantasy of navigation , passage=Like most human activities, ballooning has sponsored heroes and hucksters and a good deal in between. For every dedicated scientist patiently recording atmospheric pressure and wind speed while shivering at high altitudes, there is a carnival barker with a bevy of pretty girls willing to dangle from a basket or parachute down to earth .}}
  • (British) A connection electrically to the earth ((US) ground); on equipment: a terminal connected in that manner.
  • A fox's home or lair.
  • The world of our current life (as opposed to heaven or an afterlife).
  • * 1819 , John Keats , "Ode on a Grecian Urn"
    • "Beauty is truth, truth beauty," - that is all / Ye know on earth , and all ye need to know.
  • (alchemy) One of the (w).
  • (India, and, Japan) One of the (w).
  • (Taoism) One of the (w).

    • Derived terms

    *diatomaceous earth * down to earth * earth closet * Earth Day * earth mother * Earth Summit * * earth tone * earthbound or earth-bound * earthen * earthenware * earthquake * earthling * earthly * earthly paradise * earthquake * earth-shattering * earth sign * earthworm * earthy * ends of the earth * flat earthers * go to earth * Mother Earth * rare earth * rare earth mineral * run to earth * salt of the earth * scorched earth * unearth

    See also

    * moon * sun * world * * *

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (British) To connect electrically to the earth .
    • That noise is because the amplifier is not properly earthed .
  • To bury.
  • * Young
    • The miser earths his treasure, and the thief, / Watching the mole, half beggars him ere noon.
  • To hide, or cause to hide, in the earth; to chase into a burrow or den.
  • * Dryden
    • The fox is earthed .
  • To burrow.
    • (Tickell)

    Synonyms

    * (to connect electrically to the earth) (US) ground

    Derived terms

    * unearth

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    * (l), (l), (l), (l), (l) English words with optional capitalisation 1000 English basic words

    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.
  • *
  • *: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.
  • :
  • (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) * * Clay , New Webster Dictionary of English Language, 1980 edition.

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