pottery

«pottery» in Mova's school dictionary: pots, bowls, plates and other objects made from clay and… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 3 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun (pottery — uncountable; potteries — places where it is made)

meaning for a pupil

1) Pottery is pots, bowls, plates and other objects made from clay and baked hard. tree →

2) Pottery is the craft of making such objects. tree →

3) A pottery is a place where these objects are made. tree →

sense in the lessons

In art and craft lessons children shape clay, then it is fired in a kiln (a very hot oven). In history, pieces of old pottery found by archaeologists tell us how people lived long ago. Phrases: a pottery class, a piece of pottery, a pottery wheel, broken pottery.

examples

• We made pottery bowls in art class. tree →
• The clay is baked in a kiln to make pottery. tree →
• Archaeologists found pieces of ancient pottery. tree →
• My aunt sells her pottery at the market. tree →
• I'd like to try a pottery wheel. tree →
• Be careful — pottery breaks if you drop it. tree →
• When the merchant mentioned the devil's name, the fiend immediately appeared at the threshold, began seizing the gold and silver wares, and flinging in their place bits of pottery. tree →

note

Uncountable for the objects: «some pottery», «a piece of pottery», not «a pottery» (unless you mean the workshop). A person who makes pottery is a «potter». Wet clay is soft; after firing it is hard but brittle.

In the corpora

• The wheel was not the first invention: people had farmed, built towns and made pottery for thousands of years before it.
• Greeks sailed in triremes, fast warships with three rows of oars, and traded olive oil, wine and pottery.
• The oldest known pottery, found in China, is about 20,000 years old and was made by hunter-gatherers, before farming.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «pottery» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.