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mal·le·a·ble 
[mal-ee-uh-buhl] Pronunciation Key
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[mal-ee-uh-buhl] Pronunciation Key –adjective
| 1. | capable of being extended or shaped by hammering or by pressure from rollers. |
| 2. | adaptable or tractable: the malleable mind of a child. |
[Origin: 1350–1400; ME malliable < ML malleābilis, equiv. to malle(āre) to hammer (deriv. of L malleus hammer) + -ābilis -able]
] —Related forms
mal·le·a·bly, adverb
mal·le·a·bil·i·ty, mal·le·a·ble·ness, noun
—Synonyms 2. impressionable, moldable, flexible, pliable.
—Antonyms 2. refractory, intractable.
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| mal·le·a·ble
(māl'ē-ə-bəl) Pronunciation Key
adj.
[Middle English, from Old French, from Medieval Latin malleābilis, from malleāre, to hammer, from Latin malleus, hammer; see melə- in Indo-European roots.] mal'le·a·bil'i·ty, mal'le·a·ble·ness n., mal'le·a·bly adv. Synonyms: These adjectives mean capable of being shaped, bent, or drawn out: malleable metals such as gold and silver; ductile copper; a plastic substance such as wax; soaked the leather to make it pliable; pliant molten glass. |
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Online Etymology Dictionary - Cite This Source - Share This
malleable
malleable
c.1386, from M.L. malleabilis, from malleare "to beat with a hammer," from L. malleus "hammer" (see mallet). Figurative sense, of persons, "capable of being adapted" first recorded 1612.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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| malleable | |
adjective | |
| 1. | easily influenced [syn: ductile] |
| 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] |
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The American Heritage Science Dictionary - Cite This Source - Share This
| malleable
(māl'ē-ə-bəl) Pronunciation Key
Capable of great deformation without breaking, when subject to compressive stress. Gold is the most malleable metal. Compare ductile.
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malleable mal·le·a·ble (māl'ē-ə-bəl)
adj.
- Capable of being shaped or formed, as by hammering or pressure.
- Easily controlled or influenced; tractable.
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Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary - Cite This Source - Share This
Malleable
Mal"le*a*ble\, a. [F. mall['e]able, fr. LL. malleare to hammer. See Malleate.] Capable of being extended or shaped by beating with a hammer, or by the pressure of rollers; -- applied to metals. 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.
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