About The Word Ductile
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Ductile
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What's The Definition Of Ductile?
[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 Synonyms | Synonyms for Ductile: elastic | malleable | pliable | pliant | tensile | tractable | tractile Related Terms | Find terms related to Ductile: adaptable | bendable | bending | biddable | compliant | convenient | docile | elastic | extensible | extensile | fabricable | facile | feasible | fictile | flexible | flexile | flexuous | fluid | foolproof | formable | formative | giving | handy | impressible | impressionable | like putty | limber | liquid | lissome | lithe | lithesome | malleable | manageable | maneuverable | moldable | plastic | pliable | pliant | practical | receptive | responsive | sensitive | sequacious | shapable | springy | submissive | submitting | supple | susceptible | tractable | tractile | untroublesome | whippy | wieldable | wieldy | willowy | yielding See Also | Ductile In Webster's Dictionary \Duc"tile\, a. [L. ductilis, fr. ducere to lead: cf. F.
ductile. See {Duct}.]
1. Easily led; tractable; complying; yielding to motives,
persuasion, or instruction; as, a ductile people.
--Addison.
Forms their ductile minds To human virtues.
--Philips.
2. Capable of being elongated or drawn out, as into wire or
threads.
Gold . . . is the softest and most ductile of all
metals. --Dryden.
-- {Duc"tile*ly}, adv. -- {Duc"tile*ness}, n.
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