Word Meanings - EXTENSIBLE - Book Publishers vocabulary database
Capable of being extended, whether in length or breadth; susceptible of enlargement; extensible; extendible; -- the opposite of contractible or compressible. "An extensible membrane" Holder.
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- MALLEABLE
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. -- - MALLEABLEIZE
To make malleable. - DUCTILE
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 - EXTENSIBLENESS
Extensibility. - MALLEABLENESS
Quality of being malleable. - TRACTILE
Capable of being drawn out in length; ductile. Bacon. - IRRESOLUTE
Not resolute; not decided or determined; wavering; given to doubt or irresolution. Weak and irresolute is man. Cowper. Syn. -- Wavering; vacillating; undetermined; undecided; unsettled; fickle; changeable; inconstant. -- Ir*res"o*lute*ly, adv. -- - TRACTABLE
1. Capable of being easily led, taught, or managed; docile; manageable; governable; as, tractable children; a tractable learner. I shall find them tractable enough. Shak. 2. Capable of being handled; palpable; practicable; feasible; as, tractable - EXTENSILE
Suited for, or capable of, extension; extensible. Owen. - DOCILE
1. Teachable; easy to teach; docible. 2. Disposed to be taught; tractable; easily managed; as, a docile child. The elephant is at once docible and docile. C. J. Smith. - EXTENSIBLE
Capable of being extended, whether in length or breadth; susceptible of enlargement; extensible; extendible; -- the opposite of contractible or compressible. "An extensible membrane" Holder. - EXTRACTABLE; EXTRACTIBLE
Capable of being extracted. - ATTRACTILE
Having power to attract. - IRRETRACTILE
1. Not retractile. 2. Not tractile or ductile. Sir W. Hamilton. - PROTRACTILE
Capable of being protracted, or protruded; protrusile. - INTRACTILE
Not tractile; incapable of being drawn out or extended. Bacon. - INTRACTABLE
Not tractable; not easily governed, managed, or directed; indisposed to be taught, disciplined, or tamed; violent; stubborn; obstinate; refractory; as, an intractable child. Syn. -- Stubborn; perverse; obstinate; refractory; cross; unmanageable; - PRODUCTILE
Capable of being extended or prolonged; extensible; ductile. - RETRACTILE
CApable of retraction; capable of being drawn back or up; as, the claws of a cat are retractile. - ATTRACTABLE
Capable of being attracted; subject to attraction. -- At*tract"a*ble*ness, n. - NONEXTENSILE
Not extensile; incapable of being stretched. - INDOCILE
Not teachable; indisposed to be taught, trained, or disciplined; not easily instructed or governed; dull; intractable. - CONTRACTILE
tending to contract; having the power or property of contracting, or of shrinking into shorter or smaller dimensions; as, the contractile tissues. The heart's contractile force. H. Brooke. Each cilium seems to be composed of contractile substance.