Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Capable of being drawn out in length; ductile.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Capable of being drawn out in length; ductile.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Capable of being drawn out in length; ductile.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Capable of being drawn out in length;
ductile .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective capable of being shaped or bent or drawn out
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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A thing is viscous when, being moist or soft, it is tractile.
Meteorology 2002
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Some things are both tractile and squeezable, e.g. wool; in other cases the two qualities do not coincide; phlegm, for instance, is tractile but not squeezable, and a sponge squeezable but not tractile.
Meteorology 2002
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Things are tractile when their surface can be made to elongate, for being drawn out is a movement of the surface, remaining unbroken, in the direction of the mover.
Meteorology 2002
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They must be tractile (without admitting water) or malleable (without consisting of water), and the agent in softening them is fire.
Meteorology 2002
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The "student of Slavers" was running his padded, re - tractile-clawed hands over the sphere-with-a-handle.
Neutron Star Niven, Larry 1968
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A denial of the first claim has been made, by those interested in the manufacture of rigid-tired traction engines and others, in so far as the rubber tires are employed on comparatively smooth surfaces; although the increased tractile power on quite _rough_ pavements and roads is acknowledged.
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He was a lover of the beautiful, and in disposition easily entreated; and, because of these _very_ tractile elements in his character, he fell an easy prey to the machinations of his more wily and crafty brother Japhet.
Twentieth Century Negro Literature Or, A Cyclopedia of Thought on the Vital Topics Relating to the American Negro Daniel Wallace [Editor] Culp
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The Negro was so tractile in disposition and so easily trained for good or bad that he was frequently developed in the practice of deceit, hypocrisy, tattling and numerous other weaknesses, as the result of the course of training which he received from those who were directly responsible for his physical and moral well being.
Twentieth Century Negro Literature Or, A Cyclopedia of Thought on the Vital Topics Relating to the American Negro Daniel Wallace [Editor] Culp
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A traction wheel, of given weight, resting upon two square inches of hard earth or rock, would develop the same tractile power as though it had a bearing surface of two square feet of similar material.
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The advantages claimed may be enumerated as follows: increased tractile power, with a given weight, secured without damage to roadways; ease of carriage to the supported machinery, whereby it -- the machinery -- is saved from stress and wear; and economy of the power, expended in moving the extra weight required by rigid-tired wheels, to secure the required frictional resistance.
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