Malleable

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  • adjective. Capable of being shaped or formed, as by hammering or pressure.
  • adjective. Easily controlled or influenced.
  • adjective. undefined
  • adjective. Able to adjust to changing circumstances; adaptable.
  • adjective. Capable of being changed or adjusted to meet particular or varied needs.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Capable of being shaped or extended by beating or rolling; capable of extension by hammering; reducible to a laminated form by beating, as gold, which may be beaten into leaves (gold-foil) of extreme thinness; hence, capable of being shaped by outside influence; yielding. See foil.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adjective. Capable of being extended or shaped by beating with a hammer, or by the pressure of rollers; -- applied to metals.
  • adjective. Capable of being influenced to behave as desired; tractable; -- used mostly of children.
  • adjective. iron that is capable of extension or of being shaped under the hammer; decarbonized cast iron. See under Iron.
  • adjective. 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.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adjective. Able to be hammered into thin sheets; capable of being extended or shaped by beating with a hammer, or by the pressure of rollers.
  • adjective. Flexible, liable to change.
  • adjective. in which an adversary can alter a ciphertext such that it decrypts to a related plaintext
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adjective. capable of being shaped or bent or drawn out
  • adjective. easily influenced
  • Word Usage
    ""I consider it more what I call malleable cinema than interactive," Coppola said."
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