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English

Etymology

From {{term|plasticus||of molding|lang=la}}, from {{term|πλαστικός|tr=plastikos|lang=el}}, from {{term|πλάσσειν|tr=plassein||to mold, form|lang=el}}.

The common sense of plastic as a material was derived by shortening the term thermoplastic, a term used to describe that subset of common plastics that soften when heated. (The other major subset of plastics is the thermosetting plastics, Bakelite being the best known example.)

Pronunciation

: Rhymes: Rhymes:English:-æstɪk|-æstɪk

Noun

A stiff but usually slightly flexible synthetic material, generally consisting of a hydrocarbon-based polymer.
Any similar synthetic material.
credit card|credit or debit cards used in place of cash to buy goods and services.

Translations

Chinese: {{t|cmn|塑料|sc=Hani|xs=Mandarin}} (sùliào)
Croatian: {{t-|hr|plastika|f}}
Dutch: , {{t|nl|plastiek|n}}, {{t+|nl|kunststof|c}}
Finnish:
French: {{t+|fr|plastique|f}}
Galician: {{t-|gl|plástico|xs=Galician}}
German: {{t+|de|Plastik|n}}, {{t|de|Kunststoff|f}}
Greek: {{t|el|πλαστικό|n|sc=Grek}}

Icelandic: {{t-|is|plast|n}}
Italian: {{t+|it|plastica|f}}
Japanese: {{t+|ja|プラスチック|sc=Jpan}} (purasuchikku)
Korean: {{t-|ko|플라스틱|sc=Hang}} (peullaseutik)
Portuguese: {{t+|pt|plástico|m}}
Russian: {{t|ru|пластмасса|sc=Cyrl}} (plastmássa)
Spanish: {{t+|es|plástico|m}}

Croatian: {{t-|hr|plastika|f}}
Czech: {{t-|cs|umělá hmota|f}}, {{t-|cs|plast|m}}
Dutch: , {{t+|nl|kunststof|c}}
Finnish:

Galician: {{t-|gl|plástico|xs=Galician}}
German: {{t+|de|Plastik|n}}
Portuguese: {{t+|pt|plástico|m}}
Spanish: {{t+|es|plástico|m}}

Finnish: muovi , maksukortti, luottokortti
German: {{t+|de|Plastikgeld|n}}

Icelandic: {{t-|is|plast|n}}

Adjective

Of or pertaining to the inelastic, non-brittle, deformation of a material.
Capable of adapting to varying conditions: ecologically plastic animals,see Charles Darwin: Origin of Species.
Constructed of plastic.
Inferior or not the real thing; ersatz .

Antonyms

elastic

Related terms

plasticity

Translations

Czech: {{t-|cs|tvárný|m}}
Dutch:

Finnish:
German:

Finnish: plastinen, mukautuva
German:

Spanish:

Dutch:
Finnish:
French:

German: Plastik-
Spanish: , de plástico

zh-min-nan:plastic fa:plastic fr:plastic hy:plastic io:plastic id:plastic it:plastic lo:plastic hu:plastic nl:plastic pl:plastic ru:plastic simple:plastic sr:plastic fi:plastic sv:plastic ta:plastic te:plastic vi:plastic tr:plastic zh:plastic

GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English -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.
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GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English 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.
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See plastic Nature working to his end. --Pope.
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2. Capable of being molded, formed, or modeled, as clay or
plaster; -- used also figuratively; as, the plastic mind
of a child.
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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.
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Medallions . . . fraught with the plastic beauty and
grace of the palmy days of Italian art. --J. S.
Harford.
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Plastic clay (Geol.), one of the beds of the Eocene period;
-- so called because used in making pottery. --Lyell.

Plastic element (Physiol.), one that bears within the germs
of a higher form.

Plastic exudation (Med.), an exudation thrown out upon a
wounded surface and constituting the material of repair by
which the process of healing is effected.

Plastic foods. (Physiol.) See the second Note under Food.

Plastic force. (Physiol.) See under Force.

Plastic operation, an operation in plastic surgery.

Plastic surgery, that branch of surgery which is concerned
with the repair or restoration of lost, injured, or
deformed parts of the body.
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GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English plastic \plastic\ (pl[a^]s"t[i^]k), n.
A substance composed predominantly of a synthetic organic
high polymer capable of being cast or molded; many varieties
of plastic are used to produce articles of commerce (after
1900). [MW10 gives origin of word as 1905]
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GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English Money \Mon"ey\, n.; pl. Moneys. [OE. moneie, OF. moneie, F.
monnaie, fr. L. moneta. See Mint place where coin is made,
Mind, and cf. Moidore, Monetary.]
1. A piece of metal, as gold, silver, copper, etc., coined,
or stamped, and issued by the sovereign authority as a
medium of exchange in financial transactions between
citizens and with government; also, any number of such
pieces; coin.
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To prevent such abuses, . . . it has been found
necessary . . . to affix a public stamp upon certain
quantities of such particular metals, as were in
those countries commonly made use of to purchase
goods. Hence the origin of coined money, and of
those public offices called mints. --A. Smith.
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2. Any written or stamped promise, certificate, or order, as
a government note, a bank note, a certificate of deposit,
etc., which is payable in standard coined money and is
lawfully current in lieu of it; in a comprehensive sense,
any currency usually and lawfully employed in buying and
selling.
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3. Any article used as a medium of payment in financial
transactions, such as checks drawn on checking accounts.
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4. (Economics) Any form of wealth which affects a person's
propensity to spend, such as checking accounts or time
deposits in banks, credit accounts, letters of credit,
etc. Various aggregates of money in different forms are
given different names, such as M-1, the total sum of all
currency in circulation plus all money in demand deposit
accounts (checking accounts).
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Note: Whatever, among barbarous nations, is used as a medium
of effecting exchanges of property, and in the terms of
which values are reckoned, as sheep, wampum, copper
rings, quills of salt or of gold dust, shovel blades,
etc., is, in common language, called their money.
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4. In general, wealth; property; as, he has much money in
land, or in stocks; to make, or lose, money.
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The love of money is a root of all kinds of evil.
--1 Tim vi. 10
(Rev. Ver. ).
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Money bill (Legislation), a bill for raising revenue.

Money broker, a broker who deals in different kinds of
money; one who buys and sells bills of exchange; -- called
also money changer.

Money cowrie (Zool.), any one of several species of
Cypraea (esp. Cypraea moneta) formerly much used as
money by savage tribes. See Cowrie.

Money of account, a denomination of value used in keeping
accounts, for which there may, or may not, be an
equivalent coin; e. g., the mill is a money of account in
the United States, but not a coin.

Money order,
(a) an order for the payment of money; specifically, a
government order for the payment of money, issued at
one post office as payable at another; -- called also
postal money order.
(b) a similar order issued by a bank or other financial
institution.

Money scrivener, a person who procures the loan of money to
others. [Eng.]

Money spider, Money spinner (Zool.), a small spider; --
so called as being popularly supposed to indicate that the
person upon whom it crawls will be fortunate in money
matters.

Money's worth, a fair or full equivalent for the money
which is paid.

A piece of money, a single coin.

Ready money, money held ready for payment, or actually
paid, at the time of a transaction; cash.

plastic money, credit cards, usually made out of plastic;
also called plastic; as, put it on the plastic.

To make money, to gain or acquire money or property; to
make a profit in dealings.
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WordNet 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

Moby Dictionary
Bakelite , Buna , Celluloid , Formica , Lucite , Mylar , PVC , Perspex ,
Plexiglas , Styrofoam , Teflon , able to adapt , acaroid resins ,
accessible , accordant , acetate , acetate nitrate , acquiescent ,
acrylic , adaptable , adaptive , adhesive , adjustable , alkyd ,
alterable , alterative , amber , amenable , aminoplast , anal , apt ,
artificial , average , bendable , bending , biddable , bogus , bourgeois ,
bright , casein plastic , cast plastic , cellophane ,
cellulose acetate , cellulose ether , cellulose nitrate ,
cellulose plastic , cellulosic , changeable , cheap , checkered ,
chintzy , clayey , clever , colophony , common , commonplace ,
complaisant , compliant , compulsive , concordant , conformable ,
conformist , conventional , corresponding , coumarone resins ,
coumarone-indene , counterfeit , crummy , docile , ductile , educable ,
elastic , epoxy , ersatz , ever-changing , extensible , extensile ,
extruded plastic , fabricable , facile , fake , fictile , flexible ,
flexile , flexuous , fluid , fluorocarbon plastic , formable , formal ,
formalistic , formational , formative , fossil resins , furane , garden ,
garden-variety , giving , gum rosin , gums , harmonious , imitation ,
impermanent , impressible , impressionable , in accord , in keeping ,
in line , in step , inexperienced , influenceable , instructable ,
intelligent , kaleidoscopic , kosher , lac resins , laminate , lignin ,
like putty , limber , lissome , lithe , lithesome , lot , malleable ,
manageable , many-sided , melamine , meretricious , metabolic ,
metamorphic , middle-class , mobile , modifiable , moldable ,
molded plastic , molding compounds , morphotic , motivated , movable ,
multiresin , mutable , neoprene , nitrate , no great shakes ,
nonuniform , normal , nylon , obedient , open , open-minded , ordinary ,
orthodox , other-directed , parcel , paste , pedantic , permutable ,
persuadable , persuasible , pervious , phenolic urea , pinchbeck ,
pine resins , plasmatic , plasmic , plat , pliable , pliant , plot ,
polyester , polymer , polymeric amide , polypropylene , polystyrene ,
polyvinyl chloride , precisianistic , protean , proteiform ,
protein plastic , protoplasmic , quick , ready , receptive , regular ,
resilient , resin , resin plastic , resina , resinate , resinoid ,
responsive , ripe for instruction , rosin , rubbery , run-of-mine ,
run-of-the-mill , schoolable , sensitive , sequacious , sham , shapable ,
shapeable , shoddy , silicone resin , soft , springy , square , straight ,
stuffy , suasible , submissive , suburban , suggestible , supple ,
susceptible , swayable , synthetic , synthetic fabric ,
synthetic resin , synthetic rubber , teachable , tetrafluoroethylene ,
thermoplastic , thermosetting plastic , thirsty for knowledge , tract ,
tractable , tractile , traditionalist , trainable , transient ,
transitory , unexceptional , unformed , unnoteworthy , unremarkable ,
unspectacular , uptight , urea , urea formaldehyde , usual , variable ,
vegetable resins , vinyl , waxy , weak , whippy , willing , willowy ,
workable , yielding