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Noun (5 meanings)

1. a very fine-grained soil that is plastic when moist but hard when fired.

clay is a type of:

soil, dirt (noun) - the part of the earth's surface consisting of humus and disintegrated rock

types of clay:

Kitty Litter (noun) - granulated clay
adobe (noun) - the clay from which adobe bricks are made
argil (noun) - a white clay (especially a white clay used by potters)
bentonite (noun) - an absorbent aluminum silicate clay formed from volcanic ash
china clay, china stone, kaolin, kaoline, porcelain clay, terra alba (noun) - a fine usually white clay formed by the weathering of aluminous minerals (as feldspar)

daub (noun) - material used to daub walls
fireclay (noun) - a heat-resistant clay
pipeclay, terra alba (noun) - fine white clay used in making tobacco pipes and pottery and in whitening leather
potter's clay, potter's earth (noun) - clay that does not contain any iron
red clay (noun) - clay whose redness results from iron oxide

things made from clay:

brick (noun) - rectangular block of clay baked by the sun or in a kiln
pottery, clayware (noun) - ceramic ware made from clay and baked in a kiln
tile, roofing tile (noun) - a thin flat slab of fired clay used for roofing

clay is made from:

silicon, Si, atomic number 14 (noun) - a tetravalent nonmetallic element

2. water soaked soil; soft wet earth.

clay is a type of:

soil, dirt (noun) - the part of the earth's surface consisting of humus and disintegrated rock

types of clay:

bleaching clay, bleaching earth (noun) - an adsorbent clay that will remove coloring from oils
mud pie (noun) - a mass of mud that a child has molded into the shape of pie
slop, mire (noun) - deep soft mud in water or slush

clay is derivationally related to:

boggy, marshy, miry, mucky, muddy, quaggy, sloppy, sloughy, soggy, squashy, swampy, waterlogged (adjective) - (of soil) soft and watery
to mire, muck, mud, muck up (verb) - soil with mud, muck, or mire
to mud (verb) - plaster with mud

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

Clay, Lucius Clay, Lucius DuBignon Clay

clay is an instance of:

general, full general (noun) - a general officer of the highest rank

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

Clay, Henry Clay, the Great Compromiser

clay is an instance of:

politician, politico, pol, political leader (noun) - a person active in party politics

5. the dead body of a human being.

cadaver, corpse, stiff, clay, remains

Examples:

“the cadaver was intended for dissection”,
“the end of the police search was the discovery of a corpse”,
“the murderer confessed that he threw the stiff in the river”,
“honor comes to bless the turf that wraps their clay”

clay is a type of:

body, dead body (noun) - a natural object consisting of a dead animal or person

types of clay:

cremains (noun) - the remains of a dead body after cremation

clay is derivationally related to:

cadaverous, cadaveric (adjective) - of or relating to a cadaver or corpse

Domain of synset - USAGE:

slang, cant, jargon, lingo, argot, patois, vernacular (noun) - a characteristic language of a particular group (as among thieves)