plastically

• a word derived from plastic.
  plastic

  noun

  Often any of a group of synthetic or natural organic materials that may be shaped when soft and then hardened, including many types of resins, resinoids, polymers, cellulose derivatives, casein materials, and proteins: used in place of other materials, as glass, wood, and metals, in construction and decoration, for making many articles, as coatings, and, drawn into filaments, for weaving. They are often known by trademark names, as Bakelite, Vinylite, or Lucite.

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Rock can respond to stress in three ways: it can deform elastically, it can deform plastically, and it can break or fracture.

From Textbooks ● Jan. 1, 2015

Dakin Barrolles is an arch-thief who has his war-torn face plastically repaired in the image of the missing board chairman of the Bank of England.

From Time Magazine Archive

Man is master not only of the soil, but of the plants that grow in it, molding them plastically to suit human purposes.

From Time Magazine Archive

She settled down to plastic surgery 15 years ago, emigrated to the plastically profitable U. S. in 1932.

From Time Magazine Archive

“That’s the conclusion of the testing,” he informed her—or rather it—and Eldon Rosen, who regarded him with writhing worry; the elderly mans face contorted, shifted plastically with angry concern.

From "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" by Philip K. Dick

Related Words

• elastic
• molded