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- English Word Plastic Definition Capable of being molded, formed, or modeled, as clay or plaster; -- used also figuratively; as, the plastic mind of a child.
- English Word Plastic Definition 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.
- English Word plastic Definition a substance composed predominantly of a synthetic organic high polymer capable of being cast or molded; many varieties of plastic are used to produce articles of commerce (after 1900). [MW10 gives origin of word as 1905]
- English Word Plastical Definition See Plastic.
- English Word Plastically Definition In a plastic manner.
- English Word Plasticity Definition The quality or state of being plastic.
- English Word Plasticity Definition Plastic force.
- English Word Plastid Definition Alt. of Plastide
- English Word Plastide Definition A formative particle of albuminous matter; a monad; a cytode. See the Note under Morphon.
- English Word Plastide Definition One of the many minute granules found in the protoplasm of vegetable cells. They are divided by their colors into three classes, chloroplastids, chromoplastids, and leucoplastids.
- English Word Plastidozoa Definition Same as Protoza.
- English Word Plastidule Definition One of the small particles or organic molecules of protoplasm.
- English Word Plastin Definition A substance associated with nuclein in cell nuclei, and by some considered as the fundamental substance of the nucleus.
- English Word Plastography Definition The art of forming figures in any plastic material.
- English Word Plastography Definition Imitation of handwriting; forgery.
- English Word Plastron Definition A piece of leather stuffed or padded, worn by fencers to protect the breast.
- English Word Plastron Definition An iron breastplate, worn under the hauberk.
- English Word Plastron Definition The ventral shield or shell of tortoises and turtles. See Testudinata.
- English Word Plastron Definition A trimming for the front of a woman's dress, made of a different material, and narrowing from the shoulders to the waist.
- English Word Plat Definition To form by interlaying interweaving; to braid; to plait.
- English Word Plat Definition Work done by platting or braiding; a plait.
- English Word Plat Definition A small piece or plot of ground laid out with some design, or for a special use; usually, a portion of flat, even ground.
- English Word Plat Definition To lay out in plats or plots, as ground.
- English Word Plat Definition Plain; flat; level.
- English Word Plat Definition Plainly; flatly; downright.
- English Word Plat Definition Flatly; smoothly; evenly.
- English Word Plat Definition The flat or broad side of a sword.
- English Word Plat Definition A plot; a plan; a design; a diagram; a map; a chart.
- English Word Platan Definition The plane tree.
- English Word Platanist Definition The soosoo.