PLASTIC
\plˈastɪk], \plˈastɪk], \p_l_ˈa_s_t_ɪ_k]\
Definitions of PLASTIC
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1898 - Warner's pocket medical dictionary of today.
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1874 - Etymological and pronouncing dictionary of the English language
- 1920 - A dictionary of scientific terms.
- 1846 - Medical lexicon: a dictionary of medical science
- 1898 - American pocket medical dictionary
- 1916 - Appleton's medical dictionary
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capable of being molded or modeled (especially of earth or clay or other soft material); "plastic substances such as wax or clay"
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generic name for certain synthetic or semisynthetic materials that can be molded or extruded into objects or films or filaments or used for making e.g. coatings and adhesives
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used of the imagination; "material...transformed by the plastic power of the imagination"--Coleridge
By Princeton University
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capable of being molded or modeled (especially of earth or clay or other soft material); "plastic substances such as wax or clay"
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generic name for certain synthetic or semisynthetic materials that can be molded or extruded into objects or films or filaments or used for making e.g. coatings and adhesives
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used of the imagination; "material...transformed by the plastic power of the imagination"--Coleridge
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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Having the power to give form or fashion to a mass of matter; as, the plastic hand of the Creator.
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a substance composed predominantly of a synthetic organic high polymer capable of being cast or molded; many varieties of plastic are used to produce articles of commerce (after 1900). [MW10 gives origin of word as 1905]
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Capable of being molded, formed, or modeled, as clay or plaster; - used also figuratively; as, the plastic mind of a child.
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Pertaining or appropriate to, or characteristic of, molding or modeling; produced by, or appearing as if produced by, molding or modeling; - said of sculpture and the kindred arts, in distinction from painting and the graphic arts.
By Oddity Software
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Having the power to give form or fashion to a mass of matter; as, the plastic hand of the Creator.
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Capable of being molded, formed, or modeled, as clay or plaster; - used also figuratively; as, the plastic mind of a child.
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Pertaining or appropriate to, or characteristic of, molding or modeling; produced by, or appearing as if produced by, molding or modeling; - said of sculpture and the kindred arts, in distinction from painting and the graphic arts.
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a substance composed predominantly of a synthetic organic high polymer capable of being cast or molded; many varieties of are used to produce articles of commerce (after 1900). [MW10 gives origin of word as 1905]
By Noah Webster.
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Capable of being formed or molded; as, clay is plastic; giving form to matter; as, plastic art; quick to receive impressions; as, a plastic mind.
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Plastically.
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Plasticity.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
By James Champlin Fernald
By William R. Warner
By Daniel Lyons
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
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Susceptible of being moulded or modelled, as clay; having power to give form to matter; pert. to modelling; produced by, or appearing as produced by, moulding or modelling.
By Stormonth, James, Phelp, P. H.
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Formative; substances used in forming or building up tissues or organs; force which gives matter definite form.
By Henderson, I. F.; Henderson, W. D.
By Robley Dunglison
By Willam Alexander Newman Dorland
