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  • adjective Able to be moulded; plastic

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Examples

  • Using a food processor, combine coconut, butter, flour and cocoa to make a "mouldable", slightly sticky dough.

    Archive 2009-01-01 Sarah 2009

  • Using a food processor, combine coconut, butter, flour and cocoa to make a "mouldable", slightly sticky dough.

    Learning to Breathe Sarah 2009

  • By regaining the chairs former conditions and removing the backrests of the chairs, replacing it with a new textile dress/structure of mouldable polyester felt, he makes new “slow fashion” - furniture.

    RE:cover Chairs by Fredrik Färg 2009

  • I don't mind magic; it is - uhm - magical enough to be mouldable to fit whatever idea I come up with.

    finished reading... mikandra 2008

  • ANNM plastique This is a very useful explosive containing the same qualities as strait ANNM but in a plastic mouldable form.

    The Makeshift Arsenal, by Lowry Version 1.2 1996

  • Pour the required amount of A. P into a bowl than slowly add the paste until the mixture has a mouldable density than remove.

    The Makeshift Arsenal, by Lowry Version 1.2 1996

  • A solid object on which a pliable substance is applied in order to take its shape; a solid hollowed-out object in which a mouldable or liquid substance is poured in order to acquire the shape of the cavity.

    Chapter 14 1992

  • These tests, developed by the Swedish scientist Atterberg, are needed to find the respective moisture contents at which the soil changes from a liquid (viscous) to a plastic (mouldable) state, from a plastic consistency to a soft solid (which breaks apart before changing shape, but unites if pressed), and from this state to a hard solid.

    Chapter 4 1988

  • Manage yourself sensibly, and since you know that you are in a very mouldable, impressionable stage, it stands to reason that you had better steadily read classics now, to form and strengthen your mind.

    Stray Thoughts for Girls Lucy H. M. Soulsby

  • (Hear, hear, and applause) And may I say that in the Old Country we have got fairly good granite which has got a shine on it (laughter) - and that over there they have found that the Scout Movement is getting hold of the boys while they are yet mouldable, in the early stages of their work, and they can work in the polishing up of the surface of the Old Country.

    The Boy Scout Movement 1923

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