Malleable

3 definitions found

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

  Malleable \Mal"le*a*ble\, a. [F. mall['e]able, fr. LL. malleare
     to hammer. See {Malleate}.]
     1. Capable of being extended or shaped by beating with a
        hammer, or by the pressure of rollers; -- applied to
        metals.
        [1913 Webster]


  
     2. Capable of being influenced to behave as desired;
        tractable; -- used mostly of children.
        [PJC]
  
     {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.
        [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

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

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

  114 Moby Thesaurus words for "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