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Plastic

Plastic Meaning & Definition
Plastic Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Plastic?

[n] 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
[adj] capable of being molded or modeled (especially of earth or clay or other soft material); "plastic substances such as wax or clay"
[adj] used of the imagination; "material...transformed by the plastic power of the imagination" (Coleridge)
[adj] capable of being influenced or formed; "the plastic minds of children"; "a pliant nature"

Synonyms | Synonyms for Plastic: elastic | fictile | impressible | impressionable | integrative | moldable | pliant

Related Terms | Find terms related to Plastic: able to adapt | acaroid resins | accessible | accordant | acetate | acetate nitrate | acquiescent | acrylic | adaptable | adaptive | adhesive | adjustable | alkyd | alterable | alterative | amber | amenable | aminoplast | anal | apt | artificial | average | Bakelite | bendable | bending | biddable | bogus | bourgeois | bright | Buna | casein plastic | cast plastic | cellophane | Celluloid | cellulose acetate | cellulose ether | cellulose nitrate | cellulose plastic | cellulosic | changeable | cheap | checkered | chintzy | clayey | clever | colophony | common | commonplace | complaisant | compliant | compulsive | concordant | conformable | conformist | conventional | corresponding | coumarone resins | coumarone-indene | counterfeit | crummy | docile | ductile | educable | elastic | epoxy | ersatz | ever-changing | extensible | extensile | extruded plastic | fabricable | facile | fake | fictile | flexible | flexile | flexuous | fluid | fluorocarbon plastic | formable | formal | formalistic | formational | formative | Formica | fossil resins | furane | garden | garden-variety | giving | gum rosin | gums | harmonious | imitation | impermanent | impressible | impressionable | in accord | in keeping | in line | in step | inexperienced | influenceable | instructable | intelligent | kaleidoscopic | kosher | lac resins | laminate | lignin | like putty | limber | lissome | lithe | lithesome | lot | Lucite | malleable | manageable | many-sided | melamine | meretricious | metabolic | metamorphic | middle-class | mobile | modifiable | moldable | molded plastic | molding compounds | morphotic | motivated | movable | multiresin | mutable | Mylar | neoprene | nitrate | no great shakes | nonuniform | normal | nylon | obedient | open | open-minded | ordinary | orthodox | other-directed | parcel | paste | pedantic | permutable | Perspex | persuadable | persuasible | pervious | phenolic urea | pinchbeck | pine resins | plasmatic | plasmic | plat | Plexiglas | pliable | pliant | plot | polyester | polymer | polymeric amide | polypropylene | polystyrene | polyvinyl chloride | precisianistic | protean | proteiform | protein plastic | protoplasmic | PVC | quick | ready | receptive | regular | resilient | resin | resin plastic | resina | resinate | resinoid | responsive | ripe for instruction | rosin | rubbery | run-of-mine | run-of-the-mill | schoolable | sensitive | sequacious | sham | shapable | shapeable | shoddy | silicone resin | soft | springy | square | straight | stuffy | Styrofoam | suasible | submissive | suburban | suggestible | supple | susceptible | swayable | synthetic | synthetic fabric | synthetic resin | synthetic rubber | teachable | Teflon | tetrafluoroethylene | thermoplastic | thermosetting plastic | thirsty for knowledge | tract | tractable | tractile | traditionalist | trainable | transient | transitory | unexceptional | unformed | unnoteworthy | unremarkable | unspectacular | uptight | urea | urea formaldehyde | usual | variable | vegetable resins | vinyl | waxy | weak | whippy | willing | willowy | workable | yielding

See Also | ABS plastic | amino plastic | amino resin | aminoplast | Bakelite | cellulosic | coumarone resin | coumarone-indene resin | fluorocarbon plastic | Mylar | phenolic plastic | phenolic urea | polyester | polypropene | polypropylene | polytetrafluoroethylene | polyvinyl-formaldehyde | resinoid | silicone resin | solid | Teflon | thermoplastic | thermoplastic resin | thermosetting compositions | thermosetting resin | vinyl | Vinylite

Plastic In Webster's Dictionary

\-plas"tic\ (-pl[a^]s"t[i^]k). [Gr. ? fit for molding, plastic, fr. ? to mold, to form.] A combining form signifying developing, forming, growing; as, heteroplastic, monoplastic, polyplastic.
\Plas"tic\ (pl[a^]s"t[i^]k), a. [L. plasticus, Gr. ?, fr. ? to form, mold: cf. F. plastique.] 1. Having the power to give form or fashion to a mass of matter; as, the plastic hand of the Creator. --Prior. See plastic Nature working to his end. --Pope. 2. Capable of being molded, formed, or modeled, as clay or plaster; -- used also figuratively; as, the plastic mind of a child. 3. Pertaining or appropriate to, or characteristic of, molding or modeling; produced by, or appearing as if produced by, molding or modeling; -- said of sculpture and the kindred arts, in distinction from painting and the graphic arts. Medallions . . . fraught with the plastic beauty and grace of the palmy days of Italian art. --J. S. Harford. {Plastic clay} (Geol.), one of the beds of the Eocene period; -- so called because used in making pottery. --Lyell. {Plastic element} (Physiol.), one that bears within the germs of a higher form. {Plastic exudation} (Med.), an exudation thrown out upon a wounded surface and constituting the material of repair by which the process of healing is effected. {Plastic foods}. (Physiol.) See the second Note under {Food}. {Plastic force}. (Physiol.) See under {Force}. {Plastic operation}, an operation in plastic surgery. {Plastic surgery}, that branch of surgery which is concerned with the repair or restoration of lost, injured, or deformed parts of the body.

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