Adobe structures are constructed with bricks created from sand, clay, and water, with some fibrous or organic material, shaped using frames and dried in the sun.

When the term is used in this sense, the brick might be made from clay, lime-and-sand, concrete, or shaped stone.

In the case of pottery, clay materials are shaped, dried and then fired in a kiln.

Bricks, cooking pots, art objects, dishware, and even musical instruments such as the ocarina can all be shaped from clay before being fired.

Cuneiform is from the Latin meaning “ wedge shaped ” and was impressed on wet clay with a sharpened reed.

This ship model is made of clay and features a distinctive prow shaped like a boar ’ s head that is described by Herodotus in History, and depicted on pottery, coins seals and drinking cups.

The clay was shaped and fired in a series of brick and tile kilns.

Lake Bonneville shaped the topography of the area and deposited lake bottom clay and sand.

Deere came to the conclusion that a plow made out of highly polished steel and a correctly shaped moldboard ( the self-scouring steel plow ) would be better able to handle the soil conditions of the prairie, especially its sticky clay.

An appropriate refined clay is shaped into the desired shape.

Various sites from the Late Jomon Period ( 1, 900 – 1, 300 BC ) including Tateishi, Makumae and Hatten contain clay figurines, masks and ear and nose shaped clay artifacts.

Good sand sculpture sand is somewhat dirty, having silt and clay that helps lock the irregular shaped sand grains together.

It is used similarly to clay, as it is easily shaped when wet, yet sets into a resilient and lightweight structure.

In the case of ceramic kilns, a shaped clay object is the final result, while cement kilns produce a substance called clinker that is crushed to make the final cement product.

Ancient mugs were usually carved in wood or bone or shaped of clay, but most modern ones are made of ceramic materials such as earthenware, bone china, porcelain or stoneware.

The paving installed here comprised one-inch thick square tiles made from heavy wealden clay, so named because they were shaped in a wooden pan before firing.

Based on this, Lyell proposed that the Sands were the eroded remains of a clay island similar to Sheppey, rather than a mere shifting of the sea bottom shaped by currents and tides.

In operation a slice of de-aired clay body is placed in between two shaped porous moulds, and vertical movement of the moulds presses the body into the required shape.

The techniques of jiggering and jolleying can be seen as extensions of the potter's wheel: in jiggering, a shaped tool is slowly brought down onto the plastic clay body that has been placed on top of the rotating plaster mould.

Tiles are shaped either by pressing quarried clay with a wooden frame ( super ), or carving out the desired shape ( regular ).

Other features of the house include Gothic louvered windows, Chinese cut and paste porcelain work, Stoke-on-Trent floor tiles made of encaustic clay in geometric pieces all shaped to fir to for a perfect square, Glasgow cast iron works by MacFarlane's & Co. and Art Nouveau48 stained glass windows.

Those pastes with more clay ( now more commonly referred to as " bodies "), such as electrical porcelain, are extremely plastic and can be shaped by methods such as jolleying and turning.

Margaret Young-Sanchez, Associate Curator of Art of the Americas, Africa, and Oceania in The Cleveland Museum of Art, explains that most Nok ceramics were shaped by hand from coarse-grained clay and subtractively sculpted in a manner that suggests an influence from wood carving.

It is roughly shaped like a large pear, and when properly ripened, its dark green skin covers a meaty, melon-like pulp that has about the consistency of a ripe Bartlett pear, but oily.

This leader must be a man who lives above illusions that heretofore have shaped the foreign policy of the United States, namely that Russia will agree to a reunited Germany, that the East German government does not exist, that events in Japan in June 1960 were Communist-inspired, that the true government of China is in Formosa, that Mao was the evil influence behind Khrushchev at the Summit Conference in Paris in May 1960, and that either China or Russia wants or expects war.

The spiral ‐ shaped mouth with horny tooth ridges is reabsorbed together with the spiral gut.

The museum building is shaped like a longbow similar to those used at the battle by archers under King Henry.

The shell is generally ear shaped, presenting two to three whorls.

Designed by famous yacht designer L. Francis Herreshoff, this is essentially the same pattern as an admiralty anchor, albeit with small diamond shaped flukes or palms.

It is shaped like an inverted mushroom, the head becoming buried in the silt.

It is an unusual-looking instrument, distinguished by a fairly large body with squarish bouts, and either a " D "- shaped or longitudinal oval soundhole.

In mammals, the adrenal glands ( also known as suprarenal glands ) are endocrine glands that sit at the top of the kidneys ; in humans, the right adrenal gland is triangular shaped, while the left adrenal gland is semilunar shaped.

Amok is often described as a culture-bound ( or culture-specific ) syndrome, which is a psychological condition whose manifestation is strongly shaped by cultural factors.

The city's appearance today is predominantly shaped by the key role it played in Germany's history in the 20th century.

However, bryozoan colonies are founded by an ancestrula, which is round rather than shaped like a normal zooid of that species.

The Bay of Quinte () is a long, narrow bay shaped like the letter " Z " on the northern shore of Lake Ontario in the province of Ontario, Canada.

While a throwing stick can also be shaped overall like a returning boomerang, it is designed to travel as straight as possible so that it can be aimed and thrown with great force to bring down game.

The roof is a glass and steel construction, built by an Austrian steelwork company, with 1, 656 uniquely shaped panes of glass.

It is usually the size and shape of a katana, but is sometimes shaped like other swords, such as the wakizashi and tantō.

The star is suspended from the ribbon by a rectangular shaped metal loop with the corners rounded.

Water is then mixed with this dry composite, which enables it to be shaped ( typically poured ) and then solidified and hardened into rock-hard strength through a chemical process called hydration.

In function generators, this triangle wave may then be further shaped into a close approximation of a sine wave.

From the fourteenth century, the technique in which panels of wet leather were shaped over wooden moulds, painted, then oil-gilded and lacquered, reached Flanders and Brabant in the Low Countries.

In particular the development of modern industrial societies and the rapid growth of cities, followed then by the horror of World War I, were among the factors that shaped Modernism.

Plastics are really the final product, created after one or more polymers or additives have been added to a resin during processing, which is then shaped into a final form.

In modern times, the mirror substrate is shaped, polished and cleaned, and is then coated.

The dough is then shaped into pieces that are needed to make sheets of pasta.

The mixture is then shaped into long spaghetti-like strings, straightened, dried, cut, and then tempered in a kiln.

" Since then, " shaped " skis have dominated alpine ski design.

He suggested extending the torus with straight sections to form a racetrack shape, and then twisting one end by 180 degrees to produce a figure-8 shaped device.

The maker then uses a crescent shaped knife, ( a “ lunarium ” or “ lunellum ”), to clean off any remaining hairs.

The dough is then shaped into loaves, left to rise until it is the correct size, and then baked.

It was also Anning who noticed that the oddly shaped fossils then known as " bezoar stones " were sometimes found in the abdominal region of ichthyosaur skeletons.

Fat ( lard, shortening, butter or full-fat margarine ) is rubbed into plain flour to create a loose mixture that is then bound using a small amount of ice water, rolled out, then shaped and placed to create the top or bottom of a flan or pie.

In other smuts, such as Tilletia caries, the elongated haploid basidiospores form apically, often in compatible pairs that fuse centrally resulting in " H "- shaped diaspores which are by then dikaryotic.

The last statement means that the termini of the sequences of iterations generated by the points of are either precisely the same set, which is then a finite cycle, or they are finite cycles of circular or annular shaped sets that are lying concentrically.

The powder is kneaded into a dough and then shaped into cylinders.

In 1652 a doorway was cut through the ( then unrecognisable ) painting, and later bricked up ; this can still be seen as the irregular arch shaped structure near the center base of the painting.

It's such a fine, pure picture of a small section of American life that I can't imagine its ever seeming irrelevant, either as a social document or as one of the best examples of what's called cinema vérité or direct cinema ... It is fact, photographed and recorded with extraordinarily mobile camera and sound equipment, and then edited and carefully shaped into a kind of cinematic mural of faces, words, motel rooms, parlors, kitchens, streets, television images, radio music — even weather.