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clay | quiz |

As a proper noun clay

is .

As a noun quiz is

quiz, trivia.

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.

    Anagrams

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    quiz

    English

    (wikipedia quiz)

    Noun

    (quizzes)
  • Something designed to puzzle one or make one ridiculous; banter; raillery.
  • One who or that which quizzes.
  • (dated) An odd or absurd person or thing.
    • (Smart)
    (Thackeray)
  • * 1803' (published '''1816 ), (Jane Austen), ''(Northanger Abbey) , [http://www.gutenberg.org/files/121/121-h/121-h.htm Chapter 7]
    • Where did you get that quiz of a hat? It makes you look like an old witch.
  • A competition in the answering of questions.
    • We came second in the pub quiz .
  • A school examination of less importance, or of greater brevity, than others given in the same course.

    • Derived terms

    * quiz kid * quizzer * quizzery * quizzical * quizzify * quizzy

    Verb

    (en-verb)
  • (archaic) To hoax; to chaff or mock with pretended seriousness of discourse; to make sport of, as by obscure questions.
  • * Thackeray
    • He quizzed unmercifully all the men in the room.
  • (archaic) To peer at; to eye suspiciously or mockingly.
  • To question closely, to interrogate.
  • To instruct by means of a quiz.