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Easily led or reshaped
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ductile
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WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
adj. easily influenced [syn: malleable ] capable of being shaped or bent or drawn out; "ductile copper"; "malleable metals such as gold"; "they soaked the leather to made it pliable"; "pliant molten glass"; "made of highly tensile steel alloy" [syn: malleable ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
adjective EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ A malleable metal can be beaten into a sheet whereas a ductile metal can be drawn out into a wire. ▪ For the more exacting uses, such as machinery, we generally tend to choose ductile metals. ▪ Glass that is near room temperature ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. 1 Capable of being pulled or stretched into thin wire by mechanical force without breaking. 2 mold easily into a new form. 3 (context rare English) lead easily; prone to follow.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
mid-14c., from Old French ductile or directly from Latin ductilis "that may be led or drawn," from past participle of ducere "to lead" (see duke (n.)). Related: Ductility .
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Ductile \Duc"tile\, a. [L. ductilis, fr. ducere to lead: cf. F. ductile. See Duct .] Easily led; tractable; complying; yielding to motives, persuasion, or instruction; as, a ductile people. --Addison. Forms their ductile minds To human virtues. --Philips. ...
Usage examples of ductile.
This dreadful shake might have been palliated, at least, if not spared, by the lessons of fortitude that noble woman would have inculcated in her young and ductile mind.
It is malleable, ductile, very very strong, very tough, especially when alloyed with iron, but those alloys are used only in very particular work because of iron's rarity.
Formless protoplasm able to mock and reflect all forms and organs and processes - viscous agglutinations of bubbling cells - rubbery fifteen-foot spheroids infinitely plastic and ductile - slaves of suggestion, builders of cities - more and more sullen, more and more intelligent, more and more amphibious, more and more imitative!
He had forty men arrayed behind him, all of them armed with a mixture of automatic rifles, gas guns, and other arms that fired 'rubber bullets,' more accurately called missiles, made of ductile plastic that could knock a grown man down, and if the marksman were very careful, stop a heart from blunt trauma.