Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Easily drawn into wire or hammered thin.
- adjective Easily molded or shaped. synonym: malleable.
- adjective Capable of being readily persuaded or influenced; tractable.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Susceptible of being led or drawn; tractable; complying; yielding to persuasion or instruction: as, the ductile mind of youth; a ductile people.
- Flexible; pliable.
- Capable of being drawn out into wire or threads: as, gold is the most ductile of the metals.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Easily led; tractable; complying; yielding to motives, persuasion, or instruction.
- adjective Capable of being elongated or drawn out, as into wire or threads.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Capable of being
pulled orstretched intothin wire by mechanical force without breaking. - adjective
Molded easily into a new form. - adjective rare
Led easily; prone to follow.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective easily influenced
- adjective capable of being shaped or bent or drawn out
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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"That can actually trigger a phenomenon we know as ductile failure," Dr Fusseis said.
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426 MO ESHANI: Well, Anderson, you know, structural engineers, we usually design buildings so that if they are going to fail, they would fail in a mode that we call a ductile mode of failure and basically, in that mode, the members would sag and deflect a lot so that they would give plenty of warning before the failure.
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In addition, aluminum is ductile, that is, it can be drawn into wires or pressed into sheets or foil.
Aluminum 2008
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Grasping her prey with her legs and jaws, in another moment the wriggling body is passive in her grasp, subdued by the potent anæsthetic of her sting -- a hypodermic injection which instantly produces the semblance of death in its insect victim, reducing all the vital functions to the point of dissolution, and then holds them suspended -- literally prolongs life, it would sometimes seem, even beyond its normal duration -- by a process which I might call ductile equation.
My Studio Neighbors William Hamilton Gibson 1873
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roomservice taco, you said gold is ductile aka. malleable ... anon 1:31 can only read in phonetics so he/she saw "Duct Tile" and viola, one funny comment
This Just In: Collector's Item Alert!!! BikeSnobNYC 2008
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It is also ductile, meaning it can be drawn into wire.
Silver 2008
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First, it is ductile, meaning it is extremely hard to break and naturally returns to its original shape.
The War on Earth 2007
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He writes "ductile" to say that when he flings his thread everywhere in search for security, he brings in different beliefs and religions.
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'ductile' in speaking of dead clay, and Duke, Doge, or leader, in speaking of living clay.
The Crown of Wild Olive also Munera Pulveris; Pre-Raphaelitism; Aratra Pentelici; The Ethics of the Dust; Fiction, Fair and Foul; The Elements of Drawing John Ruskin 1859
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In a BMG composite the BMG is the matrix and a ductile crystalline-phase is the reinforcement material.
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