Plastic

Word PLASTIC
Character 7
Hyphenation plas tic plastic
Pronunciations /ˈplæstɪk/

Definitions and meanings of "Plastic"

What do we mean by plastic?

Capable of being shaped or formed: synonym: malleable. adjective

Relating to or dealing with shaping or modeling. adjective

Having the qualities of sculpture; well-formed. adjective

Giving form or shape to a substance. adjective

Easily influenced; impressionable. adjective

Made of a plastic or plastics. adjective

Capable of undergoing continuous deformation without rupture or relaxation. adjective

Capable of building tissue; formative. adjective

Able to change and adapt, especially by acquiring alternative pathways for sensory perception or motor skills. Used of the central nervous system. adjective

Marked by artificiality or superficiality. adjective

Of or obtained by means of credit cards. adjective

Any of various organic compounds produced by polymerization, capable of being molded, extruded, cast into various shapes and films, or drawn into filaments used as textile fibers. noun

A credit card or credit cards. noun

Capable of molding or of giving form or fashion to a mass of matter; having power to mold.

Capable of being modeled or molded into various forms, as plaster, clay, etc.; hence, capable of change or modification; capable of receiving a new bent or direction: as, the mind is plastic in youth.

Pertaining to or connected with modeling or molding; produced by or characteristic of modeling or molding: as, the plastic art (that is, sculpture in the widest sense, as distinguished from painting and the graphic arts).

In biology, specifically, plasmic

Applied by Liebig to the proteid constituents of animal food as serving to form the principal tissues of the body, in contradistinction to the non-nitrogenous portion of the food, which he called respiratory as serving for the production of bodily heat by their oxidation.

Capable of receiving and of responding to environmental impulses which induce more or less rapid evolution of an organism as a whole or of certain of its organs: the opposite of conservative and persistent.

A synthetic, solid, hydrocarbon-based polymer, whether thermoplastic or thermosetting.

(metonym) Credit or debit cards used in place of cash to buy goods and services.

Fakeness, or a person who is fake or arrogant, or believes that they are better than the rest of the population.

An instance of plastic surgery.

A sculptor, moulder.

Any solid but malleable substance.

Synonyms and Antonyms for Plastic

The word "plastic" in example sentences

Before going further, we first had to narrow the topic by differentiating among the wide spectrum of procedures that are often lumped together under the term plastic surgery. ❋ Ph.D. Vivian Diller (2011)

Although almost all the talks given at the conference were about plastic pollution in our oceans, the resulting "Honolulu Strategy Document" from the conference doesn't use the term plastic pollution once. ❋ Lisa Kaas Boyle (2011)

Sadly while Iain Dale may have invented Blogging, he is certainly not the inventor of the term plastic poll card as he claimed yesterday, and again back in 2006 when he puts the date of this achievement as "way back in July" 2005 when preparing a speech with David Davis for the second reading of the iD Cards Bill. ❋ Unknown (2008)

The term plastic surgery usually makes people think of fake breasts and Botox injections but there are a whole slew of operations for all kinds of medically necessary problems. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Some lakes don't allow real minnows at all (dead or alive), so the plastic is a great way to get the minnow in to the fish. ❋ Unknown (2009)

You may despise this diabolically durable man-made material, as many of us do; the word "plastic" has become shorthand for anything artificial, cheap, shoddy, disposable. ❋ Kerry Trueman (2011)

Now, having said that, if there were to be a recovery, experts say, that it would most likely happen in a child, because they have more of what they call plastic brains; they're able to move functions from one part of the brain to the other and they're more resilient -- Miles. ❋ Unknown (2006)

Think what has been done in plastic surgery, what is being done in what I call plastic psychology! ❋ M. Leonora Eyles (1924)

This is what they call plastic surgery on a welfare budget ... ❋ Unknown (2009)

The council has enumerated what it calls plastic bag myths. ❋ Unknown (2009)

In one photo, Orr, a 6-foot-5, 315-pound DT and one of the country's most heralded football recruits, is holding what he called a plastic pellet gun and some money. ❋ Unknown (2009)

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