Alternativa stavningar

  • (föråldrada ord) claye

Synonymer

Uttal

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Översättning
Substantiv
1.kil

Definitioner

Substantiv

  1. A mineral substance made up of small crystals of silica and alumina, that is ductile when moist; the material of pre-fired ceramics.
  2. An earth material with ductile qualities.
  3. (tennis) A tennis court surface.
  4. (biblical) The material of the human body.
  5. (geology) A particle less than 3.9 microns in diameter, following the Wentworth scale.
  6. (firearms, informal) A clay pigeon.

Verb

  1. (transitive) To add clay to, to spread clay onto.
  2. (transitive, of sugar) To purify using clay.

Exempel

  • Three chairs of the steamer type, all maimed, comprised the furniture of this roof-garden, with (by way of local colour) 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.
  • 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.
  • 1809, Jonathan Williams, On the Process of Claying Sugar, in Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, Volume 6.
  • They amounted, therefore, to a prohibition, at first of claying or refining sugar for any foreign market, and at present of claying or refining it for the market, which takes off, perhaps, more than nine-tenths of the whole produce.
  • The Portuguese had mastered the technique of claying sugar, and other European nations tried to learn the secrets from them.

Böjningsformer

Perfektparticipclayed
Imperfektclayed
Presensparticipclaying
Pluralclays
Tredje person singular indicativ presensclays