Meaning of Clay | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A surname originating as an occupation.
   countable, uncountable
2. A mineral substance made up of small crystals of silica and alumina, that is ductile when moist; the material of pre-fired ceramics.
   uncountable, usually
3. A male given name transferred from the surname.
   countable, uncountable
4. An earth material with ductile qualities.
   uncountable, usually
5. A diminutive of the male given name Clayton.
   countable, uncountable
6. A tennis court surface made of crushed stone, brick, shale, or other unbound mineral aggregate.
   uncountable, usually
7. A number of places in the United States:
   countable, uncountable
8. A city in Jefferson County, Alabama.
   countable, uncountable
9. The material of the human body.
   uncountable, usually
10. A census-designated place in Sacramento County, California.
    countable, uncountable
11. A particle less than 3.9 microns in diameter, following the Wentworth scale.
    uncountable, usually
12. A home rule city in Webster County, Kentucky, named after Henry Clay.
    countable, uncountable
13. A clay pipe for smoking tobacco.
    uncountable, usually
14. An unincorporated community in Adair County, Missouri.
    countable, uncountable
15. A clay pigeon.
    informal, uncountable, usually
16. A town in Onondaga County, New York, named after Henry Clay.
    countable, uncountable
17. Land or territory of a country or other political region, especially when subject to territorial claims.
    Internet, humorous, uncountable, usually
18. A moth, Mythimna ferrago
    uncountable, usually
19. An unincorporated community in Franklin Township, Jackson County, Ohio.
    countable, uncountable
20. A census-designated place in Burleson County, Texas.
    countable, uncountable
21. A town, the county seat of Clay County, West Virginia.
    countable, uncountable
22. A ghost town in the town of Komensky, Jackson County, Wisconsin.
    countable, uncountable
23. A number of townships in the United States, listed under Clay Township.
    countable, uncountable
24. Ellipsis of Clay County.
    abbreviation, alt-of, countable, ellipsis, uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“Three chairs of the steamer type, all maimed, comprised the furniture of this roof-garden, with (by way of local color) on one of the copings a row of four red clay flower-pots filled with sun-baked dust […]”

“The French Open is played on clay.”

“From clay we are made.”

“Thine hands have made me and fashioned me together round about...thou hast made me as the clay.”

“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.”

“We went shooting clays at the weekend.”

“Vilnius is rightful Polish clay.”

“When he was about five years old some kids asked Clay why his mother had called him that. And he did not know. But began to wonder.”

“The lone "nay" came from the Republican lawmaker from Louisiana, Clay Higgins, who defied his party saying his vote was a principled "NO".”

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