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Soil
alluvial
boulder clay
clayey
cover crop
earthiness
frozen
lime
loam
mud
ooze
peat moss
sandy
sedimentation
silt
soil
solarization
solarize
topsoil
unploughed
worm cast

claynoun[U] (TENNIS)

in tennis, a court surface (= playing area) that is made of crushed stones or bricks :
Many top players dislike clay underfoot when they're playing tennis.
The slow clay of Seville was part of the reason Spain defeated the US in the final.
 on clay
playing on a clay surface:
Later that same year she won two events on clay.
The team headed home, pondering how to improve on clay.

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Tennis & racket sports
ace
alley
approach shot
backcourt
ball boy
ball girl
chip
forecourt
forehand
knock up
mixed doubles
outhit
paddleball
padel
passing shot
pelota
shuttlecock
string
table tennis
tramlines

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Surfaces on which sports take place

clay | American Dictionary

clay
noun[ U ]
us/kleɪ/
thick, heavy earth that is soft when wet, and hard when dry or baked:
Clay is used for making bricks and pots.

Examples of clay

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Undoubtedly, if they had wanted to they could have produced naturalistic clay animals, with heads and legs, for example.
The skull was discovered when one of the clay objects accidentally broke.
The formation of the clay minerals can be divided into three different stages in the tuffs.
The sands are mostly well drained but low-lying areas accumulate sufficient clay and fines to retain water for periods after rainfall.
From the eighteenth century landowners had recognised the need for effective techniques for draining impermeable clay soils.
The dwellings were rectangular and their exterior walls were whitened with either a wash of clay or with lime.
The building's concrete shell is insulated on the exterior and wrapped with extruded clay planks.
The fire destroyed the buildings, but at the same time transformed them into baked clay and thereby preserved them as foundations for new buildings.
Here, we present the results concerning the adsorption and detection of the adenine nucleic based on a series of minerals including clay and meteorite.
It took the high-risk movement to put the first cracks in the clay feet of traditional psychopathology.
It is desired that the operator feels the actual contact force when maneuvering the oil clay system using the force feedback system.
Decades of patenting activity prior to mid-century produced three distinctly different procedures for mechanically forming clay products.
The same low survival rate was obtained behind a thin layer of clay acting as an optical filter.
Extrusion machinery was based on an entirely different principle for forming clay products.
The clay contains a large number of contorted calcite veins.
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Collocations withclay

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These are words often used in combination with clay.

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baked clay
The fire destroyed the buildings, but at the same time transformed them into bakedclay and thereby preserved them as foundations for new buildings.
bentonite clay
The materials under consideration, which may be used singly or in combination, include cement mixes, crushed rock, bentonite clay, polymers, pulverised fly ash, asphalt and salt.
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