This is a test of the new dictionary software. Click a word, any word. Every word in the definitions below links back to its own definition, for greater overall comprehension and learning.

2 definitions found

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:

  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.
  
              Forms their ductile minds To human virtues.
                                                    --Philips.
  
     2. Capable of being elongated or drawn out, as into wire or
        threads.
  
              Gold . . . is the softest and most ductile of all
              metals.                               --Dryden.
        -- {Duc"tile*ly}, adv. -- {Duc"tile*ness}, n.

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

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

This site brought to you by a half dozen lines of PHP code slapped together by Chris Knight and hosted by ProxyIT.