malleable

3 definitions found

malleable - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Malleable \Mal"le*a*ble\, a. [F. mall['e]able, fr. LL. malleare
     to hammer. See Malleate.]
     1. Capable of being extended or shaped by beating with a
        hammer, or by the pressure of rollers; -- applied to
        metals.
        [1913 Webster]
  
     2. Capable of being influenced to behave as desired;
        tractable; -- used mostly of children.
        [PJC]
  
     Malleable iron, iron that is capable of extension or of
        being shaped under the hammer; decarbonized cast iron. See
        under Iron.
  
     Malleable iron castings, articles cast from pig iron and
        made malleable by heating then for several days in the
        presence of some substance, as hematite, which deprives
        the cast iron of some of its carbon.
        [1913 Webster]

malleable - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

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

malleable - Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :

  114 Moby Thesaurus words for "malleable":
     able to adapt, accessible, acquiescent, adaptable, adaptive,
     adjustable, alterable, alterative, amenable, apt, bendable,
     bending, biddable, bright, changeable, checkered, clever,
     complaisant, compliant, conformable, convenient, docile, ductile,
     educable, elastic, ever-changing, extensible, extensile,
     fabricable, facile, feasible, fictile, flexible, flexile, flexuous,
     fluid, foolproof, formable, formative, giving, governable, handy,
     impermanent, impressible, impressionable, influenceable,
     instructable, intelligent, kaleidoscopic, like putty, limber,
     lissome, lithe, lithesome, manageable, maneuverable, many-sided,
     metamorphic, mobile, modifiable, moldable, motivated, movable,
     mutable, nonuniform, obedient, open, open-minded, other-directed,
     permutable, persuadable, persuasible, pervious, plastic, pliable,
     pliant, practical, protean, proteiform, quick, ready, receptive,
     resilient, responsive, ripe for instruction, rubbery, schoolable,
     sensitive, sequacious, shapable, springy, suasible, submissive,
     suggestible, supple, susceptible, swayable, teachable,
     thirsty for knowledge, tractable, tractile, trainable,
     transformable, transient, transitory, untroublesome, variable,
     weak, whippy, wieldable, wieldy, willing, willowy, yielding