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Meaning of 'ductile' (Webster Dictionary)

1 . Ductile [ a.]
- Easily led; tractable; complying; yielding to motives, persuasion, or instruction; as, a ductile people.
- Capable of being elongated or drawn out, as into wire or threads.

Meaning of 'ductile' (Princeton's WordNet)

1 . ductile [ s]
Meaning (1):
- capable of being shaped or bent or drawn out
Example in sentence:
  • ductile copper;
  • made of highly tensile steel alloy;
  • malleable metals such as gold;
  • pliant molten glass;
  • they soaked the leather to made it pliable

Nearby Words:

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