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adobe |
a building material of clay mixed with straw that has been dried by the sun and made into bricks. [1/2 definitions] |
art room |
In some schools, there is a room called an art room. It is a kind of classroom, and teachers teach students things like painting and drawing there. Things like brushes, paint, clay, glue, scissors, and paper are kept in an art room. |
brick |
a hard block of dried or baked clay used as a building material. [1/2 definitions] |
cement |
a powder made of clay and limestone that becomes hard when water is added. Cement is used as a building material. [1/3 definitions] |
ceramic |
of or having to do with objects made of baked clay. |
clay |
Clay is wet earth that gets hard when you bake it in a hot oven. Clay is used for making things like bowls, pots, and bricks. When clay is soft and wet, it is easy to press it into whatever shape you want, but after you bake it, you can't change it. |
clod |
a lump of earth or clay. [1/2 definitions] |
concrete |
Concrete is a hard, strong building material. Concrete is often used to make things like sidewalks, streets, and parts of buildings and bridges. Concrete contains things like sand, dried clay, and small stones. [1/3 definitions] |
earthen |
made of clay. [1/2 definitions] |
fire |
If you fire something made out of clay, you use very high heat to bake it. When it is fired, it becomes very hard. [1/9 definitions] |
litter |
Litter is small bits of material, like wood chips or bits of dried clay, spread at the bottom of an animal's cage or in a special box or area for a cat or other domestic animal. Litter collects the animal's waste and can be removed easily for cleaning of the cage or area. [1/5 definitions] |
lump |
A lump is a mass of some substance without any particular shape. If you pull off some clay from a block of clay, you will have a lump of clay in your hand. [1/3 definitions] |
mass |
A mass is an amount of something that has no particular form. When you take a mass of clay and make it into a pot, it means that you take some amount of clay and make it into the form of a pot. [1/2 definitions] |
pot1 |
a deep round container made of metal, glass, or clay, used for cooking food. [2/4 definitions] |
pottery |
plates, bowls, pots, and other items made of clay. |
pueblo |
A pueblo is a house made of adobe or stone built by Native Americans in the southwest United States. "Adobe" is a type of building material that is made from clay and straw. Pueblos are shared by members of a community and are usually several stories high. |
putty |
a soft mixture that is like clay. It is used to hold panes of glass in windows and to fill small holes and cracks. |
sculptor |
A sculptor is a person who makes sculptures. A sculpture is something that people make as a piece of art. A sculpture can be any shape, and it is often made out of stone, clay, wood, or metal. Sometimes a sculpture looks like a person or an animal. Sometimes it doesn't look like any real thing at all. |
sculpture |
A sculpture is something that people make as a piece of art. A sculpture can be any shape or size, and it is often made out of stone, clay, wood, or metal. Sometimes a sculpture looks like a person or an animal. Sometimes it doesn't look like any real thing at all. |
shape |
When you shape something, you make it into a certain form. If you shape clay, you make the clay into the form that you want. If something is shaped a certain way, someone or something has given it that shape. [1/4 definitions] |
silt |
fine particles of earth, clay, or sand that eventually settle out of water. |
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