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WHAT DOES POTTER'S WHEEL MEAN IN ENGLISH?

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Potter's wheel

In pottery, a potter's wheel is a machine used in the shaping of round ceramic ware. The wheel may also be used during the process of trimming the excess body from dried ware and for applying incised decoration or rings of color. Use of the potter's wheel became widespread throughout the Old World but was unknown in the Pre-Columbian New World, where pottery was handmade by methods that included coiling and beating. A potter's wheel may occasionally be referred to as a "potter's lathe". However, that term is better used for another kind of machine that is used for a different shaping process, turning, similar to that used for shaping of metal and wooden articles. The techniques of jiggering and jellying 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. The jigger tool shapes one face, the mould the other. The term is specific to the shaping of flat ware, such as plates, whilst a similar technique, jellying, refers to the production of hollow ware, such as cups.

Definition of potter's wheel in the English dictionary

The definition of potter's wheel in the dictionary is a device with a horizontal rotating disc, on which clay is shaped into pots, bowls, etc, by hand.

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE POTTER'S WHEEL

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potter´s clay
potter´s earth
potter´s field
potterer
Potteresque
Potteries
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potting shed
pottinger

WORDS THAT END LIKE POTTER'S WHEEL

at the wheel
cartwheel
chain wheel
cogwheel
driving wheel
Ferris wheel
fifth wheel
flywheel
freewheel
heel
medicine wheel
paddle wheel
pinwheel
ratchet wheel
rear wheel
spare wheel
steering wheel
the wheel
thumbwheel
wheel
wire wheel

Synonyms and antonyms of potter's wheel in the English dictionary of synonyms

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Translation of «potter's wheel» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF POTTER'S WHEEL

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The translations of potter's wheel from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «potter's wheel» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

陶轮
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

la rueda de alfarero
570 millions of speakers

English

potter´s wheel
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

कुम्हार का चाक
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

عجلة الخزاف
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

гончарный круг
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

roda de oleiro
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

কুমোরের চাকা
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

le tour de potier
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Roda periuk
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Töpferscheibe
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

ろくろ
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

물레
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Wheeler
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

bánh xe thợ gốm
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

மண் பாண்டம் செய்யும் சக்கரம்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

कुंभार च्या चाक
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

çömlekçinin tekerleği
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

ruota del vasaio
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

Koło garncarskie
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

гончарний круг
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

roata olarului
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

τροχό αγγειοπλαστικής
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

pottebakker se wiel
14 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Swedish

drejskivan
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

pottemakerhjul
5 millions of speakers

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «POTTER'S WHEEL»

Discover the use of potter's wheel in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to potter's wheel and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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The Potter's Wheel
This early works on The Potters Wheel is a fascinating novel of the period and still an interesting read today.
Ian MacLaren, 2009
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The Potter's Wheel
In this novel, he tells of Obuechina, the only brother of six older sisters, prize pupil in the village school, apple of his doting mother's eye, eight years old and hopelessly spoilt.
Chukwuemeka Vincent Ike, Vincent Chukwuemeka Ike, 1993
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The Craft and Art of Clay: A Complete Potter's Handbook
The potter's wheel is designed for making round forms of varying thickness from plastic clay, but throwing can produce other forms through alteration. Use of the potter's wheel dates from about 5000 B.C., beginning in Egypt, the Middle East, ...
Susan Peterson, Jan Peterson, 2003
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Memoirs from the Potter's Wheel
Katrina Fox. “ugly” areas in our lives so that He could work it up, and then He would work it out. Because of this working up and out, the Potter will do what may seem cruel to the lump of clay. By flattening it, and then shaping by pressing it ...
Katrina Fox, 2010
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Popular Science
It is, indeed, a craft that many amateurs could take up with pleasure and profit, especially as the principal tool — the potter's wheel — can be built at home. The wheel illustrated is of an improved hanging-treadle type, with a short, nontiring ...
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The Potter's Studio Handbook
The potter's wheel is a tool that provides rotation for the clay. The potter provides the force and finesse to move and shape vessels from mounds of clay. Potters, like musicians, must warm up before every session so that the steps to making a  ...
Kristin Muller
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Machines & Inventions
Potter's Wheel The potter's wheel is one of the earliest uses of the wheel. It is a horizontal wheel that revolves on a spindle. The revolving spindle and the potter's hand shapes the clay mounted on the wheel. The potter's wheel is believed to ...
Saddleback Educational Publishing, Saddleback, 2008
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Pottery for Life: A Guide for Beginning Potters and Those ...
In my years in this profession, the potter's wheel has given so much pleasure, from profoundly disabled people to highly trained people with a mental illness. People of every ability can enjoy having a go, but to get good results it does take a ...
Claire Botterill, 2001
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Data Quality: Concepts, Methodologies and Techniques
Notice that Potter's Wheel has a specific activity called structure extraction, which is part of the profiling activity mentioned in Chapter 4. With regard to the main features, Potter's Wheel [166] stresses user friendliness and interactivity in object  ...
Carlo Batini, Monica Scannapieco, 2006
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Popular Mechanics
The beginner can read how it's done and learn the fundamentals, but there's nothing like watching a skilled potter pull up a pot from a mass of spinning clay on a potter's wheel to really see how it's done. Even then, the beginner is not going to ...

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «POTTER'S WHEEL»

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Wolfsonian exhibit explores the artistry and social implications of the …
It was the male potters who “dug the clay, prepared the clay and would mostly throw the pots on a potter's wheel,” Miami artist and FIU instructor ... «Miami Herald, Jul 15»
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World of Wedgwood: Potted history served with a lovely cuppa
“OKAY, this is the point where we make it or break it,” says Dave Barker as my half-finished creation spins around on the potter's wheel. «Express.co.uk, Jul 15»
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Beaver County Christian grad created dinosaur sounds for 'Jurassic …
... he came up with the idea of holding a small set of wheels against a 5-gallon glass jug as it spun around a potter's wheel at various speeds. «Timesonline.com, Jul 15»
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Religion: The master potter molds us, each and every one
The artists applied water and shaped the clay spinning on the potter's wheel in front of them. With nimble fingers and just the right amount of ... «Waco Tribune-Herald, Jul 15»
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Arts Calendar
Summer Pottery Classes with Liz Bishop – Wheel Clay Class: Students will work on the potter's wheel and learn the stages of clay, from ... «The Spokesman Review, Jul 15»
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Manx National Heritage confirm school holiday programme
... Abbey life through the ages while children can follow 'Monky Business' activities include, a fruit picking challenge, a potter's wheel, have a go ... «isleofman.com, Jul 15»
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ArtsWatch: Craft Center fired up for Hot Night in the City
When its Hot Night in the City event returns for its fifth year July 24 you can try your hand at the potter's wheel, then make a piece of enameled ... «Worcester Telegram, Jul 15»
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Vale son and mum face up to 'in tents' TV competition
We got to use a potter's wheel which was something mum has always wanted to try. We did cheerleading, survival techniques with the scouts, ... «Barry and District News, Jul 15»
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Covington painter expresses color, multiple subjects in pieces
Artist Bernard Mattox is offering private and semi-private (two individuals) classes on the potter's wheel. The hour-and-a-half long classes are ... «NOLA.com, Jul 15»
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John James Audubon State Park Scheduled Events
10 a.m. - Hands-On-Clay – Everyone will be a craftsman when they join Albert Bauman at the Potter's Wheel. Albert is the potter and storyteller ... «SurfKY News, Jul 15»

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