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ductile

Part of Speech: Noun

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1. Easily led; tractable; complying; yielding to motives, persuasion, or instruction; as, a ductile people.

2. Capable of being elongated or drawn out, as into wire or threads.

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Behold an engine, wrought from tawny mines Of ductile clay, with plastic virtue formed, And glazed magnific o'er, I grasp, I fill. - "Specimens with Memoirs of the Less-known British Poets, Vol. 3", George Gilfillan.
Faith could move mountains; should it not be able to mould the little ductile heart of a child, since he was sure that his own faith was unfaltering? - "Father and Son", Edmund Gosse.
For it was impossible to guess how iron had ever been beaten to such thinness or drawn so ductile. - "News from the Duchy", Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch.

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