Definition, Meaning, Synonyms & Anagrams | English word PLASTIC

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Definitions of PLASTIC

1. A synthetic, solid, hydrocarbon-based polymer, whether thermoplastic or thermosetting.
2. (colloquial, metonym) Credit or debit cards used in place of cash to buy goods and services.
3. (figurative, slang) insincerity; fakeness, or a person who is fake or arrogant, or believes that they are better than the rest of the population.
4. (slang, countable) An instance of plastic surgery.
5. (obsolete) A sculptor, moulder.
6. (archaic) Any solid but malleable substance.
7. Capable of being moulded; malleable, flexible, pliant. [from 17th c.]
8. (medicine, now, rare) Producing tissue. [from 17th c.]
9. (dated) Creative, formative. [from 17th c.]
10. (biology) Capable of adapting to varying conditions; characterized by environmental adaptability. [from 19th c.]
11. Of or pertaining to the inelastic, non-brittle, deformation of a material. [from 19th c.]
12. Made of plastic. [from 20th c.]
13. (figurative, derogatory) Inferior or not the real thing. [from 20th c.]
14. (figurative, informal, of a person) Fake, insincere, especially in a shallow and conformist way pretending to smoothness and glossy flawlessness.
15. (informal, birdwatching, of an individual bird) Escaped from captivity, rather than wild.
16. (informal, birdwatching, of a species or individual bird) Introduced, rather than native or naturally vagrant.

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Examples of Using PLASTIC in a Sentence

• A bead is a small, decorative object that is formed in a variety of shapes and sizes of a material such as stone, bone, shell, glass, plastic, wood, or pearl and with a small hole for threading or stringing.
• The membrane is typically circular, in modern forms usually made of plastic, originally of animal skin.
• The first plastic made from synthetic components, it was developed by Leo Baekeland in Yonkers, New York, in 1907, and patented on December 7, 1909.
• RDX is often used in mixtures with other explosives and plasticizers or phlegmatizers (desensitizers); it is the explosive agent in C-4 plastic explosive and a key ingredient in Semtex.
• The most common support for drawing is paper, although other materials, such as cardboard, vellum, wood, plastic, leather, canvas, and board, have been used.
• Lamps usually have a base made of ceramic, metal, glass, or plastic which secures the lamp in the socket of a light fixture, which is often called a "lamp" as well.
• A floppy disk or floppy diskette (casually referred to as a floppy, a diskette, or a disk) is a type of disk storage composed of a thin and flexible disk of a magnetic storage medium in a square or nearly square plastic enclosure lined with a fabric that removes dust particles from the spinning disk.
• It is a strip or sheet of transparent plastic film base coated on one side with a gelatin emulsion containing microscopically small light-sensitive silver halide crystals.
• The guitarist may employ any of several methods for sounding the guitar, including finger-picking, depending on the type of strings used (either nylon or steel), and including strumming with the fingers, or a guitar pick made of bone, horn, plastic, metal, felt, leather, or paper, and melodic flatpicking and finger-picking.
• This activates a row of levers that turn a trigger mechanism that plucks one or more strings with a small plectrum made from quill or plastic.
• Knitting creates stitches: loops of yarn in a row; they can be either on straight flat needles or in the round on needles with (often times plastic) tubes connected to both ends of the needles.
• Lego consists of variously coloured interlocking plastic bricks made of acrylonitrile butadiene styrene (ABS) that accompany an array of gears, figurines called minifigures, and various other parts.
• However, unlike the plastic covering on an electrical wire, myelin does not form a single long sheath over the entire length of the axon.
• He pioneered the theory of fibre diffraction analysis in 1921, and the dislocation theory of plastic deformation of ductile metals and other materials in 1934.
• Magnetic tape is a medium for magnetic storage made of a thin, magnetizable coating on a long, narrow strip of plastic film.
• Oboes are usually made of wood, but may also be made of synthetic materials, such as plastic, resin, or hybrid composites.
• A playing card is a piece of specially prepared card stock, heavy paper, thin cardboard, plastic-coated paper, cotton-paper blend, or thin plastic that is marked with distinguishing motifs.
• Polyvinyl chloride (alternatively: poly(vinyl chloride), colloquial: vinyl or polyvinyl; abbreviated: PVC) is the world's third-most widely produced synthetic polymer of plastic (after polyethylene and polypropylene).
• A telephone card, calling card or phone card for short, is a credit card-size plastic or paper card used to pay for telephone services (often international or long-distance calling).
• Quivers were traditionally made of leather, wood, furs, and other natural materials, but are now often made of metal or plastic.

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