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CERAMICS
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The art of making and decorating pottery
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("ceramics" is a kind of...):
art; artistic creation; artistic production (the creation of beautiful or significant things)
Domain member category:
ceramic (an artifact made of hard brittle material produced from nonmetallic minerals by firing at high temperatures)
glassy; vitreous; vitrified ((of ceramics) having the surface made shiny and nonporous by fusing a vitreous solution to it)
unvitrified ((of ceramics) lacking a vitreous finish)
Derivation:
ceramic (of or relating to or made from a ceramic)
ceramicist; ceramist (a craftsman who shapes pottery on a potter's wheel and bakes them it a kiln)
