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8 entries found for plastic. -plastic suff. Forming; growing; changing; developing: metaplastic. [Greek plastikos, fit for molding. See plastic.] [Download or Buy Now] Source: The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition Copyright © 2000 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved. plas·tic    ( P )  Pronunciation Key  (plstk) adj. Capable of being shaped or formed: plastic material such as clay. See Synonyms at malleable. Relating to or dealing with shaping or modeling: the plastic art of sculpture. Having the qualities of sculpture; well-formed: “the astonishing plastic beauty of the chorus girls” (Frank Harris). Giving form or shape to a substance: the plastic forces that create and wear down a mountain range. Easily influenced; impressionable. Made of a plastic or plastics: a plastic garden hose. Physics. Capable of undergoing continuous deformation without rupture or relaxation. Biology. Capable of building tissue; formative. Marked by artificiality or superficiality; synthetic: a plastic world of fad, hype, and sensation. Informal. Of or obtained by means of credit cards: plastic money. n. Any of various organic compounds produced by polymerization, capable of being molded, extruded, cast into various shapes and films, or drawn into filaments used as textile fibers. Objects made of plastic. Informal. A credit card or credit cards: would accept cash or plastic in payment. [Latin plasticus, from Greek plastikos, from plastos, molded, from plassein, to mold. See pel-2 in Indo-European Roots.] plasti·cal·ly adv. plas·tici·ty (pls-ts-t) n. [Download or Buy Now] Source: The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition Copyright © 2000 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved. plastic ( P )  plastic: log in for this definition of plastic and other entries in Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary, available only to Dictionary.com Premium members. Source: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary, © 2002 Merriam-Webster, Inc. plastic ( P )  plastic: log in for this definition of plastic and other entries in Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary, available only to Dictionary.com Premium members. Source: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary, © 2002 Merriam-Webster, Inc. 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. Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc. plastic -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. Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc. 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 Source: WordNet ® 1.6, © 1997 Princeton University plastic plastic: in CancerWEB's On-line Medical Dictionary Source: On-line Medical Dictionary