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Wordnet 3.0

ADJECTIVE (2)

1. easily influenced;
[syn: ductile, malleable]

2. capable of being shaped or bent or drawn out;
- Example: "ductile copper"
- Example: "malleable metals such as gold"
- Example: "they soaked the leather to made it pliable"
- Example: "pliant molten glass"
- Example: "made of highly tensile steel alloy"
[syn: ductile, malleable, pliable, pliant, tensile, tractile]



The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

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.
      [1913 Webster]

            Forms their ductile minds
            To human virtues.                     --Philips.
      [1913 Webster]

   2. Capable of being elongated or drawn out, as into wire or
      threads.
      [1913 Webster]

            Gold . . . is the softest and most ductile of all
            metals.                               --Dryden.
      -- Duc"tile*ly, adv. -- Duc"tile*ness, n.
      [1913 Webster]


WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

ductile
    adj 1: easily influenced [syn: ductile, 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: ductile, malleable,
       pliable, pliant, tensile, tractile]