Crossword clues for elastic
elastic
- New form of lace — it’s stretchy
- Flexible, adaptable
- Flexible material found during the last ice-age
- Rubber band
- Resilient European to remain in charge
- Resilient characters from Castile
- Bouncy setter in bouncy castle
- Bouncy castle collapsing round setter
- Bouncy castle collapses, trapping one
- Like some waistbands
- Waistband material
- Stretchy tape
- Stretch tape
- Waistband stuff
- Tripping Daisy "I Am an ___ Firecracker"
- Easily stretched
- Waistband stretcher
- Waistband makeup
- Unaffected by stretching
- Sensitive to price changes
- Ring for boxers?
- Material in waistbands and wristbands
- Like the waistband on underwear
- Like stretchy waistbands
- Like rubber
- Like a rubber band
- It keeps boxers from falling down
- Feature of boxer shorts
- Castile (anag)
- Brief feature
- Boxers ring
- Rubber securers
- Adjustable
- Adaptable
- Like some bands
- Stretchy, as a waistband
- Flexible
- Springy
- Like a bungee cord
- Apt to snap back?
- Stretchy material
- Band composition
- Material in an underwear waistband
- Band material
- Like some demand, in economics
- What gives?
- Kind of band
- Resilient
- Supple
- Type of band
- Like a bungee jumper's cord
- Able to resile
- Pliant
- Stretchable
- Band often employed in offices
- Rubber (band)
- Able to be stretched
- Garter ingredient
- Waist nipper
- Variable beer served up with a lot of abuse
- What holds up laciest pants?
- Supple Italian wine first to cork after the Spanish
- Sensitive to price fluctuations, business centre curtailed transaction after reflection
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Elastic \E*las"tic\ ([-e]*l[a^]s"t[i^]k), a. [Formed fr. Gr. 'elay`nein to drive; prob. akin to L. alacer lively, brisk, and E. alacrity: cf. F. ['e]lastique.]
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Springing back; having a power or inherent property of returning to the form from which a substance is bent, drawn, pressed, or twisted; springy; having the power of rebounding; as, a bow is elastic; the air is elastic; India rubber is elastic.
Capable of being drawn out by force like a piece of elastic gum, and by its own elasticity returning, when the force is removed, to its former position.
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Able to return quickly to a former state or condition, after being depressed or overtaxed; having power to recover easily from shocks and trials; as, elastic spirits; an elastic constitution. Elastic bitumen. (Min.) See Elaterite. Elastic curve.
(Geom.) The curve made by a thin elastic rod fixed horizontally at one end and loaded at the other.
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(Mech.) The figure assumed by the longitudinal axis of an originally straight bar under any system of bending forces.
--Rankine.Elastic fluids, those which have the property of expanding in all directions on the removal of external pressure, as the air, steam, and other gases and vapors.
Elastic limit (Mech.), the limit of distortion, by bending, stretching, etc., that a body can undergo and yet return to its original form when relieved from stress; also, the unit force or stress required to produce this distortion. Within the elastic limit the distortion is directly proportional to the stress producing it.
Elastic tissue (Anat.), a variety of connective tissue consisting of a network of slender and very elastic fibers which are but slightly affected by acids or alkalies.
Gum elastic, caoutchouc.
Elastic \E*las"tic\, n. An elastic woven fabric, as a belt, braces or suspenders, etc., made in part of India rubber. [Colloq.]
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1650s, formerly also elastick, coined in French (1650s) as a scientific term to describe gases, from Modern Latin elasticus, from Greek elastos "ductile, flexible," related to elaunein "to strike, beat out," which is of uncertain origin; according to Watkins from an extended form of the PIE base *ele- "to go." Applied to solids from 1670s. Figurative use by 1859. The noun meaning "piece of elastic material," originally a cord or string woven with rubber, is from 1847, American English.
Wiktionary
a. 1 Capable of stretching; particularly, capable of stretching so as to return to an original shape or size when force is released. 2 Made of elastic. 3 Of clothing, elasticated. 4 (context economics English) Sensitive to changes in price. 5 springy; bouncy; vivacious 6 Able to return quickly to a former state or condition, after being depressed or overtaxed; having power to recover easily from shocks and trials. n. 1 (context uncountable English) An elastic material used in clothing, particularly in waistbands and cuffs. 2 (context countable English) An elastic band.
WordNet
adj. capable of resuming original shape after stretching or compression; springy; "an elastic band"; "a youthful and elastic walk" [ant: inelastic]
able to adjust readily to different conditions; "an adaptable person"; "a flexible personality"; "an elastic clause in a contract" [syn: flexible, pliable, pliant]
n. a narrow band of elastic rubber used to hold things (such as papers) together [syn: rubber band, elastic band]
an elastic fabric made of yarns containing an elastic material
Wikipedia
Elastic is often used colloquially to describe or identify certain types of elastomer and/or stretchable fabrics. It may also refer to:
- Elastic collision, a collision where kinetic energy is conserved
- Elastic deformation, a reversible deformation of a material
- Elasticity (economics), the responsiveness of demand or supply
- Elasticity (physics), the tendency of a solid material to revert to its previous shape after deformation
- Elastic (album), a 2002 album by jazz saxophonist Joshua Redman
Elastic is a 2002 album by jazz saxophonist Joshua Redman. All tunes were original compositions.
Usage examples of "elastic".
Oswald Brunies, the strutting, candy-sucking teacher -- a monument will be erected to him -- to him with magnifying glass on elastic, with sticky bag in sticky coat pocket, to him who collected big stones and little stones, rare pebbles, preferably mica gneiss -- muscovy biotite -- quartz, feldspar, and hornblende, who picked up pebbles, examined them, rejected or kept them, to him the Big Playground of the Conradinum was not an abrasive stumbling block but a lasting invitation to scratch about with the tip of his shoe after nine rooster steps.
I picked up one of the aluminium flasks, which was held in place by elastic cargo netting, and started to untwist the cup.
Some areolar tissue free from elastic tissue was next procured from the visceral cavity of a toad, and moderately sized, as well as very small, bits were placed on five leaves.
During a more favourable season, moderately sized bits of the skinned ear of a cat, which includes cartilage, areolar and elastic tissue, were placed on three leaves.
That blubber is something of the consistence of firm, close-grained beef, but tougher, more elastic and compact, and ranges from eight or ten to twelve and fifteen inches in thickness.
This consultation, which I have still in my possession, says that our blood is an elastic fluid which is liable to diminish or to increase in thickness, but never in quantity, and that my haemorrhage could only proceed from the thickness of the mass of my blood, which relieved itself in a natural way in order to facilitate circulation.
As soon as they were alone, Disa Quennel unsnapped her small overnight case and took the material from the elastic sling inside.
The clavicle and the two margins of the sternum had no connections whatever, and below the groove was a hard substance corresponding to the ensiform cartilage, which, however, was very elastic, and allowed the patient, under the influence of the pectoral muscles, when the upper extremity was fixed, to open the groove to nearly the extent of three inches, which was more than twice its natural width.
The upper part of the mouth of the cetacean was, indeed, provided on both sides with eight hundred horny blades, very elastic, of a fibrous texture, and fringed at the edge like great combs, at which the teeth, six feet long, served to retain the thousands of animalculae, little fish, and molluscs, on which the whale fed.
The man was younger than I expected, with black hair that had been gelled, spiked, and gathered from his forehead with an elastic headband.
The water brings together the two main types of protein in flour, glutenin and gliadin, and the result is glutenthe sticky, elastic substance that makes the mixture stringy and clotted.
When you stir water into flour, the glutenin and gliadin come alive, connecting with the water and with each other to form gluten, a tough and stretchy substance that, when kneaded or stirred or stretched, forms the elastic network that gives structure to bread, but turns pastry and cakes tough and rubbery.
Then Crusoe would prick up his ears and stretch out at full gallop, clearing ditch, and fence, and brake with his strong elastic bound, and leaving Grumps to patter after him as fast as his four-inch legs would carry him.
For them is the inelastic, or but slightly elastic, movement of things.
Kitty noted down her findings in her jotter, snapped the elastic band around it, and shoved it into her tattered satchel.