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# pottery

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

«pottery» in the English dictionary: everyday and in Jewish tradition — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

1. Pottery is pots, bowls, plates and other objects made from clay and baked hard. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pottery/#m1)
2. Pottery is the craft of making such objects. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pottery/#m2)
3. A pottery is a place where these objects are made. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pottery/#m3)

### 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 →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pottery/#x1)
- The clay is baked in a kiln to make pottery. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pottery/#x2)
- Archaeologists found pieces of ancient pottery. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pottery/#x3)
- My aunt sells her pottery at the market. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pottery/#x4)
- I'd like to try a pottery wheel. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pottery/#x5)
- Be careful — pottery breaks if you drop it. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pottery/#x6)
- 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 →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pottery/#x7)

### 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 Jewish tradition

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

- have been found on the Egyptian pottery form a sig- (Mordell, The Origin of Letters and Numerals according to Sefer Yetzirah (1914)) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/P/pottery/#x1)
- Similar to these cliaracters are the linear letters, which iiave been found on the Egyptian pottery. (Mordell, The Origin of Letters and Numerals according to Sefer Yetzirah (1914)) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/P/pottery/#x2)

### 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.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «pottery» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pottery/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«pottery» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/pottery.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of «pottery» in the Judaism dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/P/pottery/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«pottery» in the Judaism dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/judaism/w/pottery.html) on Mova free.