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