ceramics – מילון אנגלי-אנגלי
ceramics
n.
art of making clay and porcelain objects; clay or porcelain objects
ceramic
n.
non-metallic solid that stays hard when heated, hard friable material made by firing clay and substances that have common qualities; artifact made from ceramic material
Pottery
Pottery is the
ceramic material which makes up potterywares, of which major types include
earthenware,
stoneware and
porcelain. The place where such wares are made is also called a
pottery (plural "potteries"). Pottery also refers to the art or craft of a potter or the manufacture of pottery. A dictionary definition is simply objects of fired clays. The definition of
pottery used by the
American Society for Testing and Materials (ASTM) is "all fired ceramic wares that contain clay when formed, except technical, structural, and refractory products."
ceramics
Noun
1. the art of making and decorating pottery
(hypernym) art, artistic creation, artistic production
(class) glassy, vitreous, vitrified
ceramic
Noun
1. an artifact made of hard brittle material produced from nonmetallic minerals by firing at high temperatures
(hypernym) instrumentality, instrumentation
(hyponym) brick
(classification) ceramics
Adjective
1. of or relating to or made from a ceramic; "a ceramic dish"
Ceramics
(n.)
Work formed of clay in whole or in part, and baked; as, vases, urns, etc.
(n.)
The art of making things of baked clay; as pottery, tiles, etc.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), edited by Noah Porter.
About
ceramics
Synonyms and related words:
abstract art, adobe, art, art form, artist, arts and crafts, arts of design, biscuit, bisque, bowl, brick, calligraphy, cave art, cement, ceramic ware, china, crock, crockery, decoration, design, designing, enamelware, engraving, etching, fine arts, firebrick, folk art, glass, graphic arts, jug, photography, plastic art, porcelain, pot, pottery, primitive art, refractory, sculpture, the arts, tile, tiling, urn, vase
Source: Moby Thesaurus, which is part of the
Moby Project created by Grady Ward. In 1996 Grady Ward placed this thesaurus in the public domain.
