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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Hyperplastic :: Hyperplastic (a.) Of or pertaining to hyperplasia.
Cosmoplastic :: Cosmoplastic (a.) Pertaining to a plastic force as operative in the formation of the world independently of God; world-forming.
Albolith :: Albolith (n.) A kind of plastic cement, or artificial stone, consisting chiefly of magnesia and silica; -- called also albolite..
Ceroplastic :: Ceroplastic (a.) Modeled in wax; as, a ceroplastic figure..
Plastic :: Plastic (a.) Having the power to give form or fashion to a mass of matter; as, the plastic hand of the Creator..
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..
Plastical :: Plastical (a.) See Plastic.
Proplastics :: Proplastics (n.) The art of making molds for castings.
Rhinoplastic :: Rhinoplastic (a.) Of or pertaining to rhinoplasty; as, a rhinoplastic operation..
Archeus :: Archeus (n.) The vital principle or force which (according to the Paracelsians) presides over the growth and continuation of living beings; the anima mundi or plastic power of the old philosophers.
Xyloplastic :: Xyloplastic (a.) Formed of wood pulp by molds; relating to casts made of wood pulp in molds.
Plastic :: Plastic (a.) Capable of being molded, formed, or modeled, as clay or plaster; -- used also figuratively; as, the plastic mind of a child..
Pugging :: Pugging (v. t.) The act or process of working and tempering clay to make it plastic and of uniform consistency, as for bricks, for pottery, etc..
Modeler :: Modeler (n.) One who models; hence, a worker in plastic art..
Homogenous :: Homogenous (a.) Having a resemblance in structure, due to descent from a common progenitor with subsequent modification; homogenetic; -- applied both to animals and plants. See Homoplastic..
Esemplastic :: Esemplastic (a.) Shaped into one; tending to, or formative into, unity..
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..
Plastography :: Plastography (n.) The art of forming figures in any plastic material.
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..
Osteoplastic :: Osteoplastic (a.) Producing bone; as, osteoplastic cells..
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