soil vs clay

soil and clay both are nouns.

soil is a verb but clay is not a verb.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
soil	Yes	No	Yes	No
clay	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, clay is a hyponym of soil; that is, clay is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than soil:

soil: the part of the earth's surface consisting of humus and disintegrated rock
clay: a very fine-grained soil that is plastic when moist but hard when fired

Other hyponyms of soil include marl, regosol, residual clay, residual soil, surface soil, topsoil, subsoil, undersoil, alluvial soil, bog soil, clunch, desert soil, desertic soil, caliche, hardpan, fuller's earth, gilgai soil, gumbo, gumbo soil, humus, indurated clay, Indian red, laterite, loam, loess, mold, mould, mud, bole, podsol, podsol soil, podsolic soil, podzol, podzol soil, prairie soil, sand, sedimentary clay, silt, boulder clay, till, tundra soil, wiesenboden.

soil (noun)	clay (noun)
the geographical area under the jurisdiction of a sovereign state	the dead body of a human being
material in the top layer of the surface of the earth in which plants can grow (especially with reference to its quality or use)	a very fine-grained soil that is plastic when moist but hard when fired
anything regarded as making something unclean	water soaked soil; soft wet earth
the part of the earth's surface consisting of humus and disintegrated rock

soil (verb)	clay (verb)
make soiled, filthy, or dirty

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