Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In a plastic manner; by molding or modeling, as a plastic substance.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adverb In a plastic manner.
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- adverb In a
plastic way; throughmoulding ;flexibly .
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- adverb in a plastic manner
Etymologies
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Examples
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This then plastically deforms the rock which might then get moved into the stellar facing ocean of molten rock to be remelted and vaporized.
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How about an old grumpy man with a rich, plastically-enhanced wife with million dollar mensions?
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Filippo Marinetti, the war-loving Italian poet who wrote of Mussolini: "Futurist eloquence, well masticated by teeth of steel, plastically sculpted by his intelligent hand that shaves off the useless clay of hostile opinions"?
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The tectonic forces plastically deformed the clays and mudstones, but the sandstones and conglomerates broke into semi-regularly shaped pieces that Osmanagic and his team have excavated in numerous places, interpreting them as “pavements,” “terraces,” “concrete blocks,” “foundation stones,”
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The tectonic forces plastically deformed the clays and mudstones, but the sandstones and conglomerates broke into semi-regularly shaped pieces that Osmanagic and his team have excavated in numerous places, interpreting them as “pavements,” “terraces,” “concrete blocks,” “foundation stones,”
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They show the brain adapts by plastically dedicating some "brain structure" for the control of the robot arm.
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They show the brain adapts by plastically dedicating some "brain structure" for the control of the robot arm.
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Duromers are chemically hardened plastics, which cannot be plastically deformed, the processing must therefore be performed through machining.
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Even the hardest bitumen qualities must be regarded as fluids, which can be plastically deformed and can therefore give with movements.
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Three Lock-Horne hostesses sat on stools behind a tall counter, smiling plastically.
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A heavy sea-green silk dress plastically encloses her divine form, leaving the bust and arms bare
May 27, 2009