ductile
1ductile — [ dyktil ] adj. • XVe; h. 1282; lat. ductilis, de ducere « conduire, tirer » ♦ Didact. Qui peut être allongé, étendu, étiré sans se rompre. Métaux malléables et ductiles. « on file les métaux ductiles » (Voltaire). ● ductile adjectif (bas latin… …
2Ductile — 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. [1913 Webster] Forms their ductile minds To human… …
3ductile — DUCTILE. adj. des 2 g. Qui se peut étendre avec le marteau. Il ne se dit guère que Des métaux. L or est le plus ductile de tous les métaux …
4ductile — mid 14c., from O.Fr. ductile or directly from L. ductilis that may be led or drawn, from pp. of ducere to lead (see DUKE (Cf. duke) (n.)). Related: Ductility …
5ductile — DUCTILE. adj. de tout genre. Qui se peut estendre avec le marteau. Il ne se dit guere que des metaux. L or est un metal ductile …
6ductile — index flexible, malleable, obedient, pliable, pliant, sequacious, tractable Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton …
7ductile — *plastic, pliable, pliant, malleable, adaptable Analogous words: tractable, amenable (see OBEDIENT): responsive (see TENDER): yielding, submitting (see YIELD): fluid, *liquid: flexible, *elastic, resilient Contrasted words: refractory,… …
8ductile — [adj] pliant, flexible adaptable, amenable, biddable, docile, extensile, malleable, manageable, moldable, plastic, pliable, responsive, submitting, supple, tractable, yielding; concepts 488,490 Ant. hard, inflexible, intractable, stiff,… …
9ductile — ► ADJECTIVE 1) (of a metal) able to be drawn out into a thin wire. 2) able to be deformed without losing toughness. DERIVATIVES ductility noun …
10ductile — [duk′təl] adj. [ME ductil < L ductilis < ductus: see DUCT] 1. that can be stretched, drawn, or hammered thin without breaking; not brittle: said of metals 2. easily molded; plastic; pliant 3. easily led; tractable SYN. PLIABLE ductility… …
