| 单词 | clay |
| 释义 | clay noun[U] uk/kleɪ/us/kleɪ/thick,heavysoilthat issoftwhenwet, and hard whendryorbaked, used for makingbricksandcontainers 黏土，陶土 Sviatlana Lazarenka/iStock/Getty Images Plus/GettyImages Soil
clay| American Dictionaryclay noun[U] us/kleɪ/thick,heavyearththat issoftwhenwet, and hard whendryorbaked: Clay is used for makingbricksandpots. Examplesofclayclay Undoubtedly, if they had wanted to they could have produced naturalisticclayanimals, with heads and legs, for example. From theCambridge English Corpus The skull was discovered when one of theclayobjects accidentally broke. From theCambridge English Corpus The formation of theclayminerals can be divided into three different stages in the tuffs. From theCambridge English Corpus The sands are mostly well drained but low-lying areas accumulate sufficientclayand fines to retain water for periods after rainfall. From theCambridge English Corpus From the eighteenth century landowners had recognised the need for effective techniques for draining impermeableclaysoils. From theCambridge English Corpus The dwellings were rectangular and their exterior walls were whitened with either a wash ofclayor with lime. From theCambridge English Corpus The building's concrete shell is insulated on the exterior and wrapped with extrudedclayplanks. From theCambridge English Corpus The fire destroyed the buildings, but at the same time transformed them into bakedclayand thereby preserved them as foundations for new buildings. From theCambridge English Corpus Here, we present the results concerning the adsorption and detection of the adenine nucleic based on a series of minerals includingclayand meteorite. From theCambridge English Corpus It took the high-risk movement to put the first cracks in theclayfeet of traditional psychopathology. From theCambridge English Corpus It is desired that the operator feels the actual contact force when maneuvering the oilclaysystem using the force feedback system. From theCambridge English Corpus Decades of patenting activity prior to mid-century produced three distinctly different procedures for mechanically formingclayproducts. From theCambridge English Corpus The same low survival rate was obtained behind a thin layer ofclayacting as an optical filter. From theCambridge English Corpus Extrusion machinery was based on an entirely different principle for formingclayproducts. From theCambridge English Corpus Theclaycontains a large number of contorted calcite veins. From theCambridge English Corpus These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. CollocationswithclayclayThese are words often used in combination withclay. Click on a collocation to see more examples of it. baked clay The fire destroyed the buildings, but at the same time transformed them intobakedclayand thereby preserved them as foundations for new buildings. From theCambridge English Corpus bentonite clay The materials under consideration, which may be used singly or in combination, include cement mixes, crushed rock, bentonite clay, polymers, pulverised fly ash, asphalt and salt. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 clay animation Stop motion animation using plasticine is called clay animation or clay-mation. From Wikipedia  This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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