Ductile
['dʌktaɪl]
Definition
(adj.) 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' .
(adj.) easily influenced .
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Definition
(a.) Easily led; tractable; complying; yielding to motives, persuasion, or instruction; as, a ductile people.
(a.) Capable of being elongated or drawn out, as into wire or threads.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
a. [1]. Tractable, complying, docile, yielding, facile.[2]. Extensible, capable of being drawn out.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Malleable, extensible, tractile, extensile, tractable, docile, irresolute
ANT:Inelastic, inflexible, tough, obdurate, resolute, firm, obstinate
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Definition
adj. easily led: yielding: capable of being drawn out into threads.—ns. Ductilim′eter an instrument for measuring the ductility of metals; Ductil′ity capacity of being drawn out without breaking.
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Examples
- To bring it into wrought iron, which is malleable and ductile, it is puddled and refined, which involves chiefly the burning out of the carbon and silicon. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- It is also extremely ductile; a single grain may be drawn into a wire 500 feet long, and an ounce of gold covering a silver wire is capable of being extended upwards of 1,300 miles. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Education takes possession of the ductile minds of the fair sex in their infancy. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
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