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3 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Plastic \Plas"tic\ (pl[a^]s"t[i^]k), a. [L. plasticus Gr ?, fr ? to form mold: cf F. plastique.] 1. Having the power to give form or fashion to a mass of matter; as the plastic hand of the Creator. --Prior. See plastic Nature working to his end --Pope. 2. Capable of being molded, formed, or modeled, as clay or plaster; -- used also figuratively; as the plastic mind of a child. 3. 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. Medallions . . . fraught with the plastic beauty and grace of the palmy days of Italian art. --J. S. Harford. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: -plastic \-plas"tic\ (-pl[a^]s"t[i^]k). [Gr. ? fit for molding, plastic, fr ? to mold, to form.] A combining form signifying developing, forming, growing; as heteroplastic, monoplastic, polyplastic. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: plastic adj 1: used of the imagination; "material...transformed by the plastic power of the imagination" (Coleridge) 2: capable of being molded or modeled (especially of earth or clay or other soft material); "plastic substances such as wax or clay" [syn: {fictile}, {moldable}] 3: capable of being influenced or formed; "the plastic minds of children"; "a pliant nature" [syn: {pliant}] n : generic name for certain synthetic or semisynthetic materials that can be molded or extruded into objects or films or filaments or used for making e.g. coatings and adhesives
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