Crossword clues for pliable
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Pliable \Pli"a*ble\, a. [F., fr. plier to bend, to fold. See Ply, v.]
Capable of being plied, turned, or bent; easy to be bent; flexible; pliant; supple; limber; yielding; as, willow is a pliable plant.
Flexible in disposition; readily yielding to influence, arguments, persuasion, or discipline; easy to be persuaded; -- sometimes in a bad sense; as, a pliable youth. ``Pliable she promised to be.''
--Dr. H. More. [1913 Webster] -- Pli"a*ble*ness, n. -- Pli"a*bly, adv.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late 14c., from Old French ploiable "flexible, bendable," from plier "to bend" (see ply (n.)). Related: Pliably, pliability.
Wiktionary
a. soft, flexible, easily bent, formed, shaped, or molded
WordNet
adj. susceptible to being led or directed; "fictile masses of people ripe for propaganda" [syn: fictile]
able to adjust readily to different conditions; "an adaptable person"; "a flexible personality"; "an elastic clause in a contract" [syn: elastic, flexible, pliant]
capable of being bent or flexed or twisted without breaking; "a flexible wire"; "a pliant young tree" [syn: bendable, pliant]
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: ductile, malleable, pliant, tensile, tractile]
Wikipedia
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Usage examples of "pliable".
At first their manners, gentle and pliable, contrast pleasantly with the roughness of the half-breds, Huwaytat and Maknawi, who have many of the demerits of the Fellah, without acquiring the merits of the Bedawi.
She wanted to tell him to head down the funicular to some bar or restaurant in the Lower Town, find some pliable girl, and fuck Sempronia out of his mind.
By taking extracted glucosamine, you might be able to keep the cartilage pliable enough to help maintain adequate lubrication between your joints and to act as a shock absorber between bones.
The two white men, then, habited in closely-fitting hunting garments, made of dressed deer-skin, as pliable when dry as silk, their guns slung over their shoulders, followed the Indian, dressed in native costume, with bow and quiver, and carrying the provisions, and commenced their journey.
They are thick, yet pliable hair strands, containing keratin and collagen- type proteins, combined with certain metalloproteins.
That relationship was nearing its peak heat, where Tawn would be at her most pliable.
There are half a dozen of them there, at least, very large, tissuey things, soft, pliable, almost like fabric.
There never existed a Moro chief more tactful, pliable, forceful and favourable to the reorganization of the Moro community and its system of government along modern and civilized lines.
As Pickney and Marshall appeared less pliable than Gerry, Talleyrand finally obliged them to leave, after which he attempted, though still without success, to extract money, or at least the promise of it, from Gerry.
Then he pulled a strip of pliable deerskin, tapered at the ends with a bulge in the middle to hold stones for slinging, out of his waist thong, and pulled the soft leather through his hand, thinking.
Slender poles set in the shallow water are held in place by wattling or interlacing of pliable parts.
By taking extracted glucosamine, you might be able to keep the cartilage pliable enough to help maintain adequate lubrication between your joints and to act as a shock absorber between bones.
In order to keep the lashings pliable while they were being put on, they used a Primus lamp on a stone close to where they were working.
Some materials being more pliable than others, the shape of the petals may be changed slightly to meet the need.
The dolls were made of a hard, waxlike substanceeaa kind of molded rubber, pliable, durable, sturdy enough to take bending and pounding.