Definition of plastic

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Plastic (a.) Pertaining or appropriate to, or characteristic of, molding or modeling; produced by, or appearing as if produced by, molding or modeling; -- said of sculpture and the kindred arts, in distinction from painting and the graphic arts..

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Haematoplastic :: Haematoplastic (a.) Blood formative; -- applied to a substance in early fetal life, which breaks up gradually into blood vessels..
Neoplastic :: Neoplastic (a.) Of or pertaining to neoplasty, or neoplasia..
Haemoplastic :: Haemoplastic (a.) Same as Haematoplastic.
Plastically :: Plastically (adv.) In a plastic manner.
Plasticity :: Plasticity (n.) The quality or state of being plastic.
Phelloplastics :: Phelloplastics (n.) Art of modeling in cork.
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..
Proplastic :: Proplastic (a.) Forming a mold.
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..
Deutoplastic :: Deutoplastic (a.) Pertaining to, or composed of, deutoplasm..
Plastography :: Plastography (n.) The art of forming figures in any plastic material.
Solid :: Solid (a.) Having the constituent parts so compact, or so firmly adhering, as to resist the impression or penetration of other bodies; having a fixed form; hard; firm; compact; -- opposed to fluid and liquid or to plastic, like clay, or to incompact, like sand..
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..
Ceroplastic :: Ceroplastic (a.) Modeled in wax; as, a ceroplastic figure..
Plastic :: Plastic (a.) Capable of being molded, formed, or modeled, as clay or plaster; -- used also figuratively; as, the plastic mind of a child..
Uranoplasty :: Uranoplasty (n.) The plastic operation for closing a fissure in the hard palate.
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..
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..
Plasticity :: Plasticity (n.) Plastic force.
Meloplastic :: Meloplastic (a.) Of or pertaining to meloplasty, or the artificial formation of a new cheek..
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