Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Not ductile; not capable of being drawn into threads, as a metal.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Not ductile; incapable of being drawn into threads, as a metal; inelastic; tough.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Not
ductile ; incapable of being drawn intothreads , as a metal.
Etymologies
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Examples
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The Matter must be of later origin than the forming-power, and therefore must be at its disposition throughout, ready to become anything, ready therefore to any bulk; besides, if it possessed magnitude, it would necessarily possess shape also: it would be doubly inductile.
The Six Enneads. Plotinus 1952
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Each touch you give will give shape and form and make a lasting impression, and your hands labour at no hard and inductile mass.
Memories of Canada and Scotland — Speeches and Verses John Douglas Sutherland Campbell 1879
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After all, he is no inductile material in some hands.”
Villette 2003
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After all, he is no inductile material in some hands. "
Villette Charlotte Bront�� 1835
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