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2 definitions found 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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