Definition of plastic

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Plastic (a.) Capable of being molded, formed, or modeled, as clay or plaster; -- used also figuratively; as, the plastic mind of a child..

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Deutoplastic :: Deutoplastic (a.) Pertaining to, or composed of, deutoplasm..
Entoplastic :: Entoplastic (a.) Pertaining to, or composed of, entoplasm; as, the entoplastic products of some Protozoa, or the entoplastic modification of the cell protoplasm, by which a nucleus is produced..
Anaplastic :: Anaplastic (a.) Of or pertaining to anaplasty.
Sculptor :: Sculptor (n.) Hence, an artist who designs works of sculpture, his first studies and his finished model being usually in a plastic material, from which model the marble is cut, or the bronze is cast..
Plastography :: Plastography (n.) The art of forming figures in any plastic material.
Plastic :: Plastic (a.) Having the power to give form or fashion to a mass of matter; as, the plastic hand of the Creator..
Emplastic :: Emplastic (n.) A medicine causing constipation.
Ectoplastic :: Ectoplastic (a.) Pertaining to, or composed of, ectoplasm..
Sculpture :: Sculpture (n.) The art of carving, cutting, or hewing wood, stone, metal, etc., into statues, ornaments, etc., or into figures, as of men, or other things; hence, the art of producing figures and groups, whether in plastic or hard materials..
Tonic :: Tonic (a.) Of or relating to tones or sounds; specifically (Phon.), applied to, or distingshing, a speech sound made with tone unmixed and undimmed by obstruction, such sounds, namely, the vowels and diphthongs, being so called by Dr. James Rush (1833) from their forming the purest and most plastic material of intonation..
Bioplastic :: Bioplastic (a.) Bioplasmic.
Modeling :: Modeling (n.) The act or art of making a model from which a work of art is to be executed; the formation of a work of art from some plastic material. Also, in painting, drawing, etc., the expression or indication of solid form..
Antiplastic :: Antiplastic (a.) Diminishing plasticity.
Phelloplastics :: Phelloplastics (n.) Art of modeling in cork.
Meloplastic :: Meloplastic (a.) Of or pertaining to meloplasty, or the artificial formation of a new cheek..
Pliant :: Pliant (v.) Capable of plying or bending; readily yielding to force or pressure without breaking; flexible; pliable; lithe; limber; plastic; as, a pliant thread; pliant wax. Also used figuratively: Easily influenced for good or evil; tractable; as, a pliant heart..
Plastic :: plastic (n.) a substance composed predominantly of a synthetic organic high polymer capable of being cast or molded; many varieties of plastic are used to produce articles of commerce (after 1900). [MW10 gives origin of word as 1905.
Fictor :: Fictor (n.) An artist who models or forms statues and reliefs in any plastic material.
Helcoplasty :: Helcoplasty (n.) The act or process of repairing lesions made by ulcers, especially by a plastic operation..
Plastical :: Plastical (a.) See Plastic.
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