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duc·tile

(dŭk′təl, -tīl′)

adj.

1. Easily drawn into wire or hammered thin: ductile metals.

2. Easily molded or shaped. See Synonyms at malleable.

3. Capable of being readily persuaded or influenced; tractable: a ductile young mind.

[Middle English ductil, from Old French, from Latin ductilis, from ductus, past participle of dūcere, to lead; see deuk- in Indo-European roots.]

duc·til′i·ty (-tĭl′ĭ-tē), duc′ti·li·bil′i·ty (-lə-bĭl′ĭ-tē) n.

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ductile

(ˈdʌktaɪl)

adj

1. (Metallurgy) (of a metal, such as gold or copper) able to be drawn out into wire

2. able to be moulded; pliant; plastic

3. easily led or influenced; tractable

[C14: from Old French, from Latin ductilis, from dūcere to lead]

ˈductilely adv

ductility, ˈductileness n

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duc•tile

(ˈdʌk tl, -tɪl)

adj.

1. capable of being hammered out thin, as certain metals; malleable.

2. capable of being drawn out into wire or threads, as gold.

3. able to undergo change of form without breaking.

4. capable of being molded or shaped; plastic.

[1300–50; Middle English < Latin ductilis=duc-, variant s. of dūcere (see duct) + -tilis -tile]

duc′tile•ly, adv.

duc•til′i•ty, duc′tile•ness, n.

duc·tile

(dŭk′təl)

1. Easily drawn out into a fine strand or wire. Gold and silver are ductile metals. Compare brittle.

2. Relating to rock or other materials that are capable of withstanding a certain amount of force by changing form before fracturing or breaking.

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Adj.	1.	ductile - easily influenced malleable manipulable, tractable - easily managed (controlled or taught or molded); "tractable young minds"; "the natives...being...of an intelligent tractable disposition"- Samuel Butler
	2.	ductile - capable of being shaped or bent or drawn out; "ductile copper"; "malleable metals such as gold"; "they soaked the leather to made it pliable"; "pliant molten glass"; "made of highly tensile steel alloy" tractile, malleable, pliable, pliant, tensile formed - having or given a form or shape

ductile

adjective

1. Capable of being shaped, bent, or drawn out, as by hammering or pressure:

flexible, flexile, flexuous, malleable, moldable, plastic, pliable, pliant, supple, workable.

2. Easily altered or influenced:

elastic, flexible, flexile, impressionable, malleable, plastic, pliable, pliant, suggestible, supple.

Translations

قابِل للتَّمَدُّد

kujnýtažný

kan formessmidig

biegsamduktil

ductile

képlékeny

teygjanlegur; auîmótanlegur

duttile

elastingastamprus

elastīgsstiepjams

formbar

易拉长的

ductile

[ˈdʌktaɪl] ADJ (Tech) [metal] → dúctil

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ductile

adj

metal → hämmerbar; (= stretchable) → dehnbar, streckbar

(fig liter) person → leicht lenkbar

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ductile

[ˈdʌktaɪl] adj (metal) → duttile

ductile

(ˈdaktail) adjective

(of metals) able to be drawn out into wire etc.

duc·tile

a. dúctil, que tiene la propiedad de admitir deformaciones sin romperse.

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This metal, in fact, is the most tenacious, the most ductile, and the most malleable, and consequently suitable for all moulding operations; and when smelted with pit coal, is of superior quality for all engineering works requiring great resisting power, such as cannon, steam boilers, hydraulic presses, and the like.

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The lineaments of the quivering features of Magua proved more ductile; his countenance gradually lost its character of defiance in an expression of ferocious joy, and heaving a breath from the very bottom of his chest, he pronounced aloud the formidable name of:

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In one well-marked instance, I put the comb back into the hive, and allowed the bees to go on working for a short time, and again examined the cell, and I found that the rhombic plate had been completed, and had become perfectly flat: it was absolutely impossible, from the extreme thinness of the little rhombic plate, that they could have effected this by gnawing away the convex side; and I suspect that the bees in such cases stand in the opposed cells and push and bend the ductile and warm wax (which as I have tried is easily done) into its proper intermediate plane, and thus flatten it.

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