ductile : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: ductile	by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
ductile adj easily influenced Synonym(s): ductile, malleable 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" Synonym(s): ductile, malleable, pliable, pliant, tensile, tractile
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Ductile \Duc"tile\, a. [L. ductilis, fr. ducere to lead: cf. F. ductile. See {Duct}.] 1. Easily led; tractable; complying; yielding to motives, persuasion, or instruction; as, a ductile people. --Addison. Forms their ductile minds To human virtues. --Philips. 2. Capable of being elongated or drawn out, as into wire or threads. Gold . . . is the softest and most ductile of all metals. --Dryden. -- {Duc"tilely}, adv. -- {Duc"tileness}, n.