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lump of clay

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meanings of lumpand clay


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lump
noun[C]
uk /lʌmp/ us /lʌmp/
a piece of a solid substance, usually with no ...
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clay
noun[U]
uk /kleɪ/ us /kleɪ/
thick, heavy soil that is soft when wet, and hard when dry or baked, used for making bricks ...
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Examples of lump of clay


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Hughes gives the example of a lumpofclay.
The lumpofclay should be distinguished from the statue because they have different persistence conditions.
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The original "bulla" was a lumpofclay moulded around a cord and stamped with a seal.
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What is the relationship between, for instance, a statue and the lumpofclay from which it is made.
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The belief is that man is born formless like a lumpofclay.
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It was very exciting because this lumpofclay we modelled with a fairly neutral expression came to life.
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Her hand still contains a lumpofclay that was used to anchor her bow.
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A newborn child is like a lumpofclay.
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A soft lumpofclay would then be placed on the string and impressed with a signet ring or pendant bearing the seal of the sender.
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The sculptor/architect has, figuratively speaking, taken all the previous designs in hand and compressed their contours as if the building were a lumpofclay.
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For example, the creature editor allows the player to take what looks like a lumpofclay with a spine and mold it into a creature.
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The designer may attach a rough lumpofclay on the main figure as a temporary head while the real head is sculpted on a separate armature.
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Small shaped and fired lumps of clay with pecked and impressed decoration in our hands moved from one category to another, never truly belonging (figure 8).
Will you take it in lumps of clay or in fields, and if so, what are you going to do with it?
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Finds at the site included fired lumps of clay, suggestive of the idea that clay pipes and other artifacts were made here.
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Not only will professional ceramicists be demonstrating how they turn lumps of clay into works of art, but visitors can receive a one-on-one demonstration and create their own pieces.
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