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Ceramics   Listen
noun
Ceramics  n.  
1.
The art of making things of baked clay; as pottery, tiles, etc.
2.
pl. Work formed of clay in whole or in part, and baked; as, vases, urns, etc.






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"Ceramics" Quotes from Famous Books



... collectors," Muriel hastened to explain, "of ceramics—precious porcelains and that sort ...
— A Reversible Santa Claus • Meredith Nicholson

... particles, beta rays, X-rays, radiation, cosmic radiation, background radiation, radioactive isotopes, tritium, uranium, plutonium, radon, radium. sunstroke, coup de soleil[Fr]; insolation. [artifacts requiring heat in their manufacture] pottery, ceramics, crockery, porcelain, china; earthenware, stoneware; pot, mug, terra cotta[Sp], brick, clinker. [products of combustion] cinder, ash, scoriae, embers, soot; slag. [products of heating organic materials] ...
— Roget's Thesaurus

... all their arms on shipboard, and fight the enemy by sea, in the straits of Salamis; when all the people stood amazed at the confidence and rashness of this advice, Cimon was seen, the first of all men, passing with a cheerful countenance through the Ceramics, on his way with his companions to the citadel, carrying a bridle in his hand to offer to the goddess, intimating that there was no more need of horsemen now, but of mariners. There, after he had paid ...
— The Boys' and Girls' Plutarch - Being Parts of The "Lives" of Plutarch • Plutarch

... world has never since seen; and in the centre of Athens a district was reserved which was entirely occupied by the shops of potters and painters and known as the ceramicus. It is from this ancient word that our present day term ceramics is derived. Within this area devoted to the making of pottery the artists worked, each one reverently bending his energy to give to the world a thing which should be as nearly perfect in form and decoration as he could make it. Thousands ...
— The Story of Porcelain • Sara Ware Bassett



Words linked to "Ceramics" :   ceramic, unvitrified, vitreous, glassy, art, vitrified, ceramist



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