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[ UK /plˈa‍ɪəbə‍l/ ]
[ US /ˈpɫaɪəbəɫ/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. capable of being bent or flexed or twisted without breaking
    a flexible wire
    a pliant young tree
  2. capable of being shaped or bent or drawn out
    pliant molten glass
    ductile copper
    they soaked the leather to made it pliable
    made of highly tensile steel alloy
    malleable metals such as gold
  3. susceptible to being led or directed
    fictile masses of people ripe for propaganda
  4. able to adjust readily to different conditions
    a flexible personality
    an adaptable person
    an elastic clause in a contract

How To Use pliable In A Sentence

  • What we do have here is a rather queer looking creature with a faceless Charlie Brown head, duck legs, two jointless yet pliable arms, and tentacles.
  • But when it is warm, the rubber is pliable and retains high elasticity, even when being stretched hard.
  • We close by stressing the importance of implementing effective, efficient and multipliable small group collaborative learning environments online.
  • Several barriers in his consciousness that normally stand sentinel around his impressions of women become pliable and my image begins to migrate towards that of his mother.
  • A topologist is someone who imagines all objects to be made of unbreakable but very pliable playdough, and therefore does not see the need to distinguish between a coffee cup and doughnut because either can be turned into the other. Algebra
  • This accounts for the modern forms limb (limber has excrescent b, regardless of whether it means "shaft," "holes in timber," or "pliable"; none of them is related to limb) and crumb.
  • Using tweezers, Geoff carefully removed the tiny, pliable plastic disc.
  • Considered the next-generation in flat panel displays, this technology involves the use of pliable plastic instead of rigid glass in TFT-LCD production.
  • Some kinds of plastic become pliable if they're heated.
  • In its ancient usage, weaving creates surfaces and volumes by the regular interlacing of pliable strands - the warp and the woof - passing over and under each other at right angles.
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