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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
ductile
adjective
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▪ 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 is a familiar brittle material, and modeling clay is obviously ductile.
▪ Many metals are malleable and ductile.
▪ Rapid cooling between 22 and 20Myr reflects both uplift during ductile phases of extensional deformation and ambient cooling of the granitic intrusions.
▪ The amount of shearing or elongation which a ductile material will withstand varies enormously between different metals and alloys.
▪ This is what makes ductile metals so safe and tough and so popular.
▪ Whether it is of constant length or is ductile will affect both the area and the shape.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Ductile

Ductile \Duc"tile\, a. [L. ductilis, fr. ducere to lead: cf. F. ductile. See Duct.]

  1. Easily led; tractable; complying; yielding to motives, persuasion, or instruction; as, a ductile people.
    --Addison.

    Forms their ductile minds To human virtues.
    --Philips.

  2. Capable of being elongated or drawn out, as into wire or threads.

    Gold . . . is the softest and most ductile of all metals.
    --Dryden. -- Duc"tile*ly, adv. -- Duc"tile*ness, n.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
ductile

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.

Wiktionary
ductile

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.

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ductile

  1. adj. easily influenced [syn: malleable]

  2. 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, pliable, pliant, tensile, tractile]

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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.