Pottery Terms

noun the act of bowling in cricket or lawn bowling

verb to participate in a game of bowling

• The chef carefully placed the salad in a porcelain bowl.
• Hey, can you pass me that bowl over there?
• I'm going to bowl a strike in the next round.
• She bowled over the audience with her powerful performance.

noun a form of art using materials such as clay to create objects like pottery and sculptures

• The museum has an impressive collection of ancient ceramics.
• My friend is taking a ceramics class next semester.
• I love how those ceramics turned out, they're so cool!
• Her words were like delicate ceramics, easily shattered with the slightest touch.

noun a natural material made of very fine particles of earth or rock that becomes hard when it is dried or baked

• The artist molded the clay into a beautiful sculpture.
• Let's get our hands dirty and play with some clay!
• I heard she's really good at working with clay, like a pro.
• His words were like shaping clay, molding my thoughts into something new.

noun a furnace or oven for burning, baking, or drying, especially one for calcining lime or firing pottery

• The ceramics were fired in the kiln to harden and set the glaze.
• We're going to need to fire up the kiln before we can start making pottery.
• Let's crank up the kiln and get these clay pots cooking!
• Working in the kiln of competition, she emerged stronger and more resilient.

noun a decorative vase, often with a cover, used for holding the ashes of a cremated person

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• The funeral director placed the ashes in the urn before the service.
• I found a beautiful urn at the antique store for my mom's ashes.
• Check out the fancy urn I got for my grandma's cremains.
• Her heart felt like an empty urn after the breakup.