About The Word Malleable
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Malleable
Malleable Definition And Meaning |
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What's The Definition Of Malleable?
[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 Malleable: ductile | elastic | pliable | pliant | tensile | tractable | tractile Related Terms | Find terms related to Malleable: able to adapt | accessible | acquiescent | adaptable | adaptive | adjustable | alterable | alterative | amenable | apt | bendable | bending | biddable | bright | changeable | checkered | clever | complaisant | compliant | conformable | convenient | docile | ductile | educable | elastic | ever-changing | extensible | extensile | fabricable | facile | feasible | fictile | flexible | flexile | flexuous | fluid | foolproof | formable | formative | giving | governable | handy | impermanent | impressible | impressionable | influenceable | instructable | intelligent | kaleidoscopic | like putty | limber | lissome | lithe | lithesome | manageable | maneuverable | many-sided | metamorphic | mobile | modifiable | moldable | motivated | movable | mutable | nonuniform | obedient | open | open-minded | other-directed | permutable | persuadable | persuasible | pervious | plastic | pliable | pliant | practical | protean | proteiform | quick | ready | receptive | resilient | responsive | ripe for instruction | rubbery | schoolable | sensitive | sequacious | shapable | springy | suasible | submissive | suggestible | supple | susceptible | swayable | teachable | thirsty for knowledge | tractable | tractile | trainable | transformable | transient | transitory | untroublesome | variable | weak | whippy | wieldable | wieldy | willing | willowy | yielding See Also | Malleable In Webster's Dictionary \Mal"le*a*ble\, a. [F. mall['e]able, fr. LL. malleare
to hammer. See {Malleate}.]
Capable of being extended or shaped by beating with a hammer,
or by the pressure of rollers; -- applied to metals.
{Malleable iron}, iron that is capable of extension or of
being shaped under the hammer; decarbonized cast iron. See
under {Iron}.
{Malleable iron castings}, articles cast from pig iron and
made malleable by heating then for several days in the
presence of some substance, as hematite, which deprives
the cast iron of some of its carbon.
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