noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
clay pigeon shooting
heavy/clay (= containing a lot of clay )
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The soil was too heavy to grow decent carrots.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
fine
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Another obvious way of increasing plasticity is to mix a relatively fine plastic clay with a stiff clay.
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She found the finest clay , built a web of wires to spread it on, and sat breathless at her bench.
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Jenny took the society through all the processes before and after firing at high temperatures fine porcelain clay .
heavy
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Because of the heavy clay content of the material, it was considered that it could not be compacted enough for the development.
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Is it sandy or heavy with clay ?
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But if you have a heavy clay soil, wait for warmer weather.
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Avoid spots with heavy clay soil.
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I don's like to think of either of you digging in your heavy clay .
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The cleared land, a broken and undulating mix of heavy clay and difficult sands, was by no means rich.
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I had often wondered why they chose to settle in the thick woodlands on heavy clay .
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Lime is spread to help to break up heavy wet clay soils.
red
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Under any circumstances the track would be challenging, but intermittent rains have left the turf and red clay sodden and slick.
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In Fujian, workers are carving roads into red clay hills, scaling bamboo scaffolding, hauling piles of stone.
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We fixed red clay pots to the sides to encourage the birds to breed.
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Laterite, a red clay , was used to make roads.
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They cart her down to the city burying ground, roll red clay into her eyes.
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Guests also can play tennis on red clay courts at a private tennis club.
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Mary Pinciotti knows that red clay is good for your garden, despite popular opinion.
white
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The white clay is formed where some granite masses have been changed chemically.
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Their faces were painted with white clay and vermillion and black paint.
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An image of a wild rider, white clay on long hair, circling the pyre where her lover lay.
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Having painted my face with white clay , they gave me a crystal and a hollow reed.
■ NOUN
boulder
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The calcareous clays , such as East Anglian boulder clay, are alkaline and therefore will not suit azaleas or rhododendrons.
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In the last one million years the ice sheets spread a layer of boulder clay across the lowlands.
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When the ice melted some shallow lakes remained where boulder clay blocked old river courses.
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Their floors are covered by sheets of boulder clay .
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Where it was melting a huge pile of boulder clay was built up, as a terminal moraine.
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As a result the solid rocks are covered by various mixtures of loose clays , sands and boulders - called boulder clay.
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But most of the surface is covered by a thin sheet of boulder clay .
china
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The biggest extractive industry in Cornwall today is the mining of china clay .
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But china clay production has increased.
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Scraperboard a board prepared with black indian ink over a china clay surface.
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Drawings are produced by scraping away the ink to expose the china clay surface.
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Fine bone china is made from three main raw materials - china stone, china clay and animal bone.
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The grit settles in the quarries and the milk-white water is pumped up into tanks where the china clay settles slowly.
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Much of the china clay went to the Potteries of Staffordshire to be made into crockery - cups, saucers and plates.
court
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Tennis: Hard clay courts are available throughout the town, and excellent facilities on the edge of the resort.
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Guests also can play tennis on red clay courts at a private tennis club.
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Sampras has won only four matches on the clay courts of Roland Garros since 1996.
mineral
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The Thorium versus Potassium cross-plot confirms illite as being the main clay and kaolinite as the secondary clay mineral .
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These very weak stones are rich in water, which is bound up in both hydrated salts and clay minerals .
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It relies on the preferential absorption on to clay minerals of an ultra-violet sensitive dye.
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Quartz, feldspar, and the clay minerals make up the bulk of that contribution.
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Chemical weathering is of the greatest importance in producing fine material, as clay minerals are formed by this process.
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These clay minerals can form by diagenesis.
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This water is so weakly-bound to the clay minerals that it turns to steam at low temperatures.
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They are often found mixed with other clay minerals and with calcareous materials.
model
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Detroit designers were producing clay models , which suggested they were finished designs that could not be altered.
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Work on clay model mock-ups is already under way.
particle
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When clay particles are in a random arrangement the clay is more likely to crack or warp.
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RNA-like molecules, because of their negatively charged backbones, would tend to coat the outsides of clay particles .
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A layer of clay particles placed under the gravel layer is beneficial.
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Otherwise a layer of clay particles under the usual fine gravel will suffice.
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Peat and clay particles and a layer of gravel is suitable.
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Rainsplash washes elements downslope and reduces infiltration capacity by dispersing clay particles into the large interstices of the soil.
pigeon
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Anyway no more clay pigeons for Candless.
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It's used once a fortnight for clay pigeon shoots.
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So the challenge was extended to include a clay pigeon shooting match at Gorebridge between two teams of four.
pipe
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Nothing daunted, the bearers of comfort brought a flagon of ale and a long clay pipe .
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Then he filled his clay pipe with Prince Albert tobacco mixed with mullein weed for his bronchitis and lit it.
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In a small glass cabinet are examples of Tennyson's clay pipes and writing quills.
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Dad sat poking the dead ashes in the grate and sucking on his empty clay pipe .
pot
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In the flat bottom of his canoe a fire smoulders under a clay pot full of red palm oil.
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Yet this nondescript clay pot endures.
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As she carried the clay pots , six at a time, from the greenhouse, a light wind scuttled her skirt.
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Pour over mixture in clay pot .
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In a new departure, Change, somewhat forlorn rows of clay pots confront enlarged versions of coins of the Ottoman Empire.
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More clay pots can hold geraniums or other summer flowers that add color to a patio or back yard.
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Put the rice in a clay pot or a medium-sized pot.
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Of primary importance were the clay pots , so much better suited as containers than the skins and baskets employed by hunters.
soil
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These giant worms live in clay soils close to watercourses in the Bass River valley, southeast of Melbourne.
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I would dig the grave myself, six feet down into the dense clay soil .
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But if you have a heavy clay soil , wait for warmer weather.
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Avoid spots with heavy clay soil .
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To draw a heavy plough through wet clay soil , a pair of oxen, yoked together was used.
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All morning, as we negotiated puddles in the wet clay soil , we were to hear the lovely sound.
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The Brigadier and the Captain sank their cavalry boots deep into the clay soil and began looking about.
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Lime is spread to help to break up heavy wet clay soils .
tablet
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There is evidence that the Babylonians were using sine tables, recorded in cuneiform symbols on clay tablets , long before Hipparchus.
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The administration of each territory was finely tuned and certain aspects of it were recorded on clay tablets at the urban centres.
tile
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The Clay Roofing Tile Council offers you a free technical advisory service on any aspect of the use of clay tiles.
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Today's Keymer hand made clay tiles use similar hand production methods.
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Each Keymer clay tile is a work of art, guaranteed one of a kind by the handprint of its maker.
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Fore those who aren't colour-shy, Fired Earth has more than 100 shades in its Haute Provence range of clay tiles .
■ VERB
cover
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From about the time of the invention of red-figure some black-figure vases are given a white slip covering the orange clay .
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She taught me for my first three years of school by writing verses on a wooden tablet covered with clay .
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To reduce any problems, the main roof of the house, covered with clay pantiles, has no lead flashings.
form
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The clay needs to be quite wet because the act of pressing and forming the clay tends to dry it.
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Now the mud and sand have formed strata of clay and sandstone.
make
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Excess water lowers the surface tension and makes the clay soft and weak.
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If man is made of clay , why not his houses of worship?
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Some one had been making clay ashtrays and abstract plant pots.
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Louisa made shapes in the clay and Raoul had to guess what they were.
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These physical techniques of preparation eliminate air pockets and increase homogenisation of moisture and inclusions making the clay more workable.
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The houses are made of clay .
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That being of a man. referring to the bible where men were made out of clay .
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Hes made out of clay or some kind of shit like that, only he looks like a human.
use
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That's why I started using mud and clay .
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It's a unique beauty treatment that uses thermal clay and electrical currents to combat cellulite.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
feet of clay
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After all, audiences want to be entertained, not see their idols with feet of clay.
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Another hero with foot and mouth disease, feet of clay and a mouth less than squeaky clean.
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Jay swept away what she had learned in pain about feet of clay and natural caution.
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Still, she thought ruefully, most heroes would have feet of clay if studied closely.
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The discovery of his idol's feet of clay proves intolerable to the lonely, emotionally stunted fan.
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Was it, perhaps, in the 1960s that the notion became clear that no idol can exist without feet of clay?
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Côte des Blancs Topsoil Lignite, sand and clay .
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Here we find the features of the deceased preserved in clay masks.
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I saw a great crafts shop, full of clay and paints.
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In that case the sellers had warranted that a clay pulverising machine would process clay at six tons per hour.
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Laterite, a red clay , was used to make roads.
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Portraits in clay , wood, oil.
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The natural color of the clay communicates its earthy source and the smoky black tones on the surface suggest an ancient origin.
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This is an inadvertent consequence of the peculiar defect structure of the clay .