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Plastic   /plˈæstɪk/   Listen
Plastic

noun
1.
Generic name for certain synthetic or semisynthetic materials that can be molded or extruded into objects or films or filaments or used for making e.g. coatings and adhesives.
2.
A card (usually plastic) that assures a seller that the person using it has a satisfactory credit rating and that the issuer will see to it that the seller receives payment for the merchandise delivered.  Synonyms: charge card, charge plate, credit card.
adjective
1.
Capable of being molded or modeled (especially of earth or clay or other soft material).  Synonyms: fictile, moldable.
2.
Capable of being influenced or formed.  Synonym: pliant.  "A pliant nature"
3.
Forming or capable of forming or molding or fashioning.  Synonyms: formative, shaping.  "A formative experience"



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"Plastic" Quotes from Famous Books



... not at once to dance; instead, she executed a series of postures; almost without apparent transition she melted from one pose to another of plastic grace, her body the mere, boneless, obedient servant of ...
— The Black Pearl • Mrs. Wilson Woodrow
... primaeval art was already hoary with the rime of ages. When Memphian artists were busy in the morning twilight of time with the towering coiffure of Ramses or Sesostris, this far more ancient relic of plastic handicraft was lying, already fossil and forgotten, beneath the concreted floor of a cave in the Dordogne. If we were to divide the period for which we possess authentic records of man's abode upon this oblate spheroid into ...
— Falling in Love - With Other Essays on More Exact Branches of Science • Grant Allen
... consumer goods (plastic, furniture, batteries, textiles, soap, cigarettes, flour), agricultural products processing; ...
— The 2000 CIA World Factbook • United States. Central Intelligence Agency.
... sayings that except an upright life everything is vain in earth and heaven, and nothing more vain than the disputes of so-called sages. These were the true models for Varro, a man full of old Roman indignation at the pitiful times and full of old Roman humour, by no means destitute withal of plastic talent but as to everything which presented the appearance not of palpable fact but of idea or even of system, utterly stupid, and perhaps the most unphilosophical among the unphilosophical Romans.(23) But ...
— The History of Rome (Volumes 1-5) • Theodor Mommsen
... don't you think the pose strained? It's an example of eighteenth-century work, placid enough, but it lacks that plastic, fluidic serenity, that divine new touch of truth, that is revivifying art since the great Rodin lighted ...
— A Woman Named Smith • Marie Conway Oemler


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