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Elastic   /ɪlˈæstɪk/   Listen
Elastic

adjective
1.
Capable of resuming original shape after stretching or compression; springy.  "A youthful and elastic walk"
2.
Able to adjust readily to different conditions.  Synonyms: flexible, pliable, pliant.  "A flexible personality" , "An elastic clause in a contract"
noun
1.
A narrow band of elastic rubber used to hold things (such as papers) together.  Synonyms: elastic band, rubber band.
2.
A fabric made of yarns containing an elastic material.



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"Elastic" Quotes from Famous Books



... to frown upon them in their innocent pastimes—to curdle their blood with severe rebukes, because of the buoyancy of their hearts and to drive them back with scowling reprimands, when they would walk in the sunny paths which God has kindly opened for their elastic footsteps. Hence they close their ears to its invitations; turn away from its instructions, as something designed to impose a heavy yoke upon them; and postpone its claims, to be attended to among the last ...
— Golden Steps to Respectability, Usefulness and Happiness • John Mather Austin

... the fame or money for which other men toiled seemed to him but empty bubbles; the only wealth he prized was his soul's increase in love and understanding: "If the day and the night are such that you greet them with joy, and life emits a fragrance like sweet-scented herbs—is more elastic, starry ...
— Outlines of English and American Literature • William J. Long

... of any sensual side to her love, could allow herself to be expansive; she boldly and confidently poured out her angelic spirit, she stripped it bare, just as during that diabolical night, La Tinti had displayed the soft lines of her body, and her firm, elastic flesh. In Emilio's eyes there was as it were a conflict between the saintly love of this white soul and that of the vehement and ...
— Massimilla Doni • Honore de Balzac

... Bosnia. Everyone is shouting to his animals and cursing in his own language. The whole mix-up is a traveling exhibition of most variegated characteristic costumes, for the most part, of course, extremely the worse for wear. Common to all these are the little wagons adapted to mountain travel, elastic and tough, which carry only half loads and are drawn by little ponylike, ambitious horses. In between are great German draft horses, stamping along with their broad high-wheeled baggage and ammunition wagons, as though they belonged to a nation ...
— The Story of the Great War, Volume V (of 12) - Neuve Chapelle, Battle of Ypres, Przemysl, Mazurian Lakes • Francis J. Reynolds, Allen L. Churchill, and Francis Trevelyan

... perhaps, but for his smarting wounds, Tscholens might have labored with some deterrent sense of sacrilege. But no! With one elastic bound he leaped upon the "holy white seat," whence he surmounted the tier of places still behind and higher; then he lightly swung himself down into the intervening space in front of the inner partition formed by a red ...
— The Frontiersmen • Charles Egbert Craddock


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