Hypertext Webster Gateway: "ductile"
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) 1.7 (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}]
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