Clay

[kleɪ] or [kle]

解释:

(noun.) United States politician responsible for the Missouri Compromise between free and slave states (1777-1852).

(noun.) United States general who commanded United States forces in Europe from 1945 to 1949 and who oversaw the Berlin airlift (1897-1978).

(noun.) a very fine-grained soil that is plastic when moist but hard when fired.

格伦达整理--From WordNet

解释:

(n.) A soft earth, which is plastic, or may be molded with the hands, consisting of hydrous silicate of aluminium. It is the result of the wearing down and decomposition, in part, of rocks containing aluminous minerals, as granite. Lime, magnesia, oxide of iron, and other ingredients, are often present as impurities.

(n.) Earth in general, as representing the elementary particles of the human body; hence, the human body as formed from such particles.

(v. t.) To cover or manure with clay.

(v. t.) To clarify by filtering through clay, as sugar.

加德纳整理

同义词及近义词：

n. Argillaceous earth (consisting principally of alumina and silica).

校对:沃尔多

解释:

n. a tenacious ductile earth: earth in general: the human body: short for clay-pipe a tobacco-pipe made of baked clay.—v.t. to purify with clay as sugar.—adjs. Clay′-brained (Shak.) stupid; Clay′-cold cold as clay lifeless.—n. Clay′-eat′er one addicted to chewing a fatty clay—in Brazil and elsewhere.—adjs. Clayed clay-like; Clay′ey made of clay: covered with clay.—n. Clay′-ground ground consisting mainly of clay.—adj. Clay′ish of the nature of clay.—ns. Clay′-marl a whitish chalky clay; Clay′-mill a mill for preparing clay; Clay′-slate an argillaceous rock splitting readily into thin sheets; Clay′stone one of the concretionary nodules in alluvial deposits.—Wet one's clay to drink.

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