malleable

[Mal·le*a*ble]

A malleable personality is capable of being changed or trained, and a malleable metal is able to be pounded or pressed into various shapes. It's easier to learn when you're young and malleable.

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Capable of being extended or shaped by beating with a hammer, or by the pressure of rollers; -- applied to metals.

Adjective S.
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"

Adjective S.
easily influenced


a.
Capable of being extended or shaped by beating with a hammer, or by the pressure of rollers; -- applied to metals.


Malleable

Mal"le*a*ble , a. [F. mall'82able, 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.

Capable of being extended or shaped by beating with a hammer, or by the pressure of rollers; -- applied to metals.

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The past is malleable and flexible, changing as our recollection interprets and re-explains what has happened.

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