Ductile

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Ductile \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.
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              Forms their ductile minds
              To human virtues.                     --Philips.
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     2. Capable of being elongated or drawn out, as into wire or
        threads.
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              Gold . . . is the softest and most ductile of all
              metals.                               --Dryden.
        -- {Duc"tile*ly}, adv. -- {Duc"tile*ness}, n.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  ductile
       adj 1: easily influenced [syn: {malleable}]
       2: 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" [syn: {malleable}, {pliable},
           {pliant}, {tensile}, {tractile}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  57 Moby Thesaurus words for "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