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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"tile*ly}, adv -- {Duc"tile*ness}, n.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
ductile
adj 1: easily influenced [syn: {malleable}]
2: 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" [syn: {malleable}, {pliable},
{pliant}, {tensile}, {tractile}]
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