Crossword clues for malleable
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Malleable \Mal"le*a*ble\, a. [F. mall['e]able, fr. LL. malleare to hammer. See Malleate.]
Capable of being extended or shaped by beating with a hammer, or by the pressure of rollers; -- applied to metals.
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Capable of being influenced to behave as desired; tractable; -- used mostly of children.
Malleable iron, iron that is capable of extension or of being shaped under the hammer; decarbonized cast iron. See under Iron.
Malleable iron castings, articles cast from pig iron and made malleable by heating then for several days in the presence of some substance, as hematite, which deprives the cast iron of some of its carbon.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late 14c., "capable of being shaped by hammering," from Middle French malleable and directly from Medieval Latin malleabilis, from malleare "to beat with a hammer," from Latin malleus "hammer" (see mallet). Figurative sense, of persons, "capable of being adapted" first recorded 1610s.
Wiktionary
a. 1 Able to be hammered into thin sheets; capable of being extended or shaped by beating with a hammer, or by the pressure of rollers. 2 (''metaphorical'') flexible, liable to change. 3 (context cryptography of an algorithm English) in which an adversary can alter a ciphertext such that it decrypts to a related plaintext
WordNet
Wikipedia
Usage examples of "malleable".
Urban dealt the river-bread slices across a griddle that had appeared on the malleable countertop.
They thrust outward from the ship, pulling webs of malleable hull tissue within their loops to form a chaotic array of cooling fins, until Null Boundary resembled some manic crystal tree, leaved in a jumble of glassy planes.
Someone who is malleable, who understands a civilized union and will not dictate to me.
The heat under her hands increased and Elphame felt them actually slide a little way into the temporarily malleable stone.
Touching it was like touching something soft and malleable, yet solid.
She gave him tenderness, she made him malleable again, she smoothed out the jagged edges of his personality.
The reputation of a book is as fragile, as malleable, as the spirit of a patient.
The malleable femininity that had first attracted him to Bunny was stripped away, exposing a woman who was older than he had originally assumed and worlds harder.
Oh God, one touch, delivered in his sleep, and she was as warm and malleable as soft candle wax.
Keridil was far more malleable and easy to understand than Tarod had ever been.
These have previously been spoken of only in neurological terms, and it has been suggested that they helped to condition the regeneration of his convictions by maintaining his nervous system in a highly impressionable and malleable state of receptivity.
One, that he was still submissive enough to be malleable, and two, that his clandestine sources of information within her personal household were not as well-developed as he might wish, for if there had been some way for Zyperis to discover her intentions on his own, he would certainly have done it.
Early Americans wanted their new world to be open and malleable and so they wanted tradition in its place.
They saw Solo as a non-stoppable, expendable weapon, manipulatable and malleable as any normal computer.
If so, however, they have mistranslated the experience, for Mystery is far more malleable and complex, and less precise an entity than the Bardos.