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# 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pottery/#m1)

2) Pottery is the craft of making such objects. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pottery/#m2)

3) A pottery is a place where these objects are made. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pottery/#m3)

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

- [The wheel was not the first invention: people had farmed, built towns and made pottery for thousands of years before it.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/4-mesopotamia-wheels-laws-and-empires/7/)
- [Greeks sailed in triremes, fast warships with three rows of oars, and traded olive oil, wine and pottery.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/11-ancient-greece-city-states-athens-and-sparta/16/)
- [The oldest known pottery, found in China, is about 20,000 years old and was made by hunter-gatherers, before farming.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/62-everyday-inventions-pots-boats-wheels-horses-clocks-and-glasses/13/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «pottery» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pottery/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.