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Definition of pliable in English: pliableadjective ˈplʌɪəb(ə)lˈplaɪəb(ə)l 1Easily bent; flexible. 易弯的,柔韧的;灵活的,圆通的 quality leather is pliable and will not crack 高质量皮革是很柔韧且不会破裂的。 Example sentencesExamples - Most of them are cast in a somewhat soft and pliable plastic and at first I was disappointed in this thinking that a more rigid plastic would have been preferable.
- Their skin is very pliable and internal organs are easily punctured.
- An elastic, pliable lens is required to change your focus from your wingman to your kneeboard.
- Immediately after the molt, the crab's new ‘soft shell’ is pliable and easily stretched.
- In each work, the play of texture seems to transform the rigid stone into a more supple or pliable substance like plastic or clay.
- Phthalates are used to make plastic soft and pliable and in the past were found in soothers, teething toys, babies' bottles and other baby goods.
- Well, in clay animation, each object is sculpted in clay or a similarly pliable material such as plasticine, usually around an armature.
- They use earplugs or soft, pliable pods attached to a flexible metal or plastic band, which can be used behind the head, under the chin, or over the head.
- If the sponge has been dampened in warm water, you will have a more pliable and flexible sponge.
- Considered the next-generation in flat panel displays, this technology involves the use of pliable plastic instead of rigid glass in TFT-LCD production.
- Using tweezers, Geoff carefully removed the tiny, pliable plastic disc.
- Branches should be pliable and not snap very easily.
- The soft cuticle is pliable but tough and not easily pierced.
- They are covered in glistening, black scales, like the hooded serpents that steal the eggs from our hens, but stretched and pliable, like the most well-worked leather riding hand-coverings.
- Normal fats are very supple and pliable, but the trans fatty acid is a stiff fat that can build up in the body and create havoc.
- It was easily pliable, but amazingly tough, withstanding hundreds of pounds of pressure and scorching heat that could have charred the flesh off of a human being.
- They make a huge range of PVC-based plastics more pliable and durable and improve the spreadability of antiperspirants, soaps and face creams.
- But when it is warm, the rubber is pliable and retains high elasticity, even when being stretched hard.
- This physically elastic and histrionically pliable performer is as acrobatic on a stage as an aerialist under the big top.
- Amorphous solids are thermally plastic, being hard, rigid, and brittle at low temperature, and soft, flexible, and pliable at high temperature.
Synonyms flexible, easily bent, bendable, pliant, elastic, supple, stretchable, malleable, workable, plastic, whippy, springy, limber, ductile, tensile informal bendy archaic flexile 2Easily influenced. 〈喻〉易受影响的 易受影响的青少年的心灵。 Example sentencesExamples - I'm staggered by Arndt's apparent argument that education should be about preparing young people to be pliable media fodder in sporting and entertainment fields.
- He was seen as overly reliant on handlers and aides, and easily pliable.
- By contemplating compassion and love, we become familiar with the pliable mind of peace.
- Is the government, is the political process pliable enough?
- In a similar way, those who wanted to embrace Jesus and the life he called them to needed to become pliable and flexible, willing to be taught a new way of thinking and acting.
- When minds are young and pliable - government experts understand this principle - you can fill them with nonsense that is practically impossible to root out.
- So how can we cooperate with the Holy Spirit to receive this pliable heart?
- In the 1930s, this led it into conflict with Franklin Roosevelt's economic programs, and provoked a Presidential threat to stack the Court with pliable appointees.
- There are hundreds more where you came from; they're campus-fresh, younger, pliable, cheaper and hungry for work at any cost.
- Although modern, urban spaces were pliable enough to reflect historical changes, their concrete nature suggested that gender differences could not be eroded easily.
- However, research increasingly suggests that humans are just pliable puppets, with definable biological and chemical responses to certain stimuli.
- They should know that all of us are pliable and suggestible to some degree, but that children are especially vulnerable to suggestive and leading questioning.
- I came to know that though the Director was an efficient and upright officer, she happened to incur the Minister's displeasure for the simple reason that she was not pliable.
- It took centuries to still the fear in some pliable animals - domestication it's called - but most cannot get over their fear, and I doubt they ever will.
- In this respect, the theory is pliable enough to accommodate varying Pagan paths.
- Then, as governor of Texas, he was graced with a pliable enough bipartisan Legislature, and the Legislature is where the real work in that state's governance gets done.
- Born in 1922 and crowned in 1941 by French colonisers eager to install a pliable puppet, Sihanouk abdicated the throne in 1955 to contest the country's first elections.
- We'll just get our own grip on that pliable feminine mind!
- In all likelihood, the team just wanted a more pliable head coach.
- 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.
Synonyms malleable, easily influenced, impressionable, flexible, adaptable, pliant, compliant, docile, biddable, tractable, like putty in one's hands, yielding, manageable, governable, controllable, amenable, accommodating, susceptible, suggestible, influenceable, persuadable, manipulable, responsive, receptive rare persuasible, suasible, susceptive
OriginLate Middle English: from French, from plier 'to bend' (see ply1). Rhymesdyeable, flyable, friable, liable, triable, viable Definition of pliable in US English: pliableadjectiveˈplīəb(ə)lˈplaɪəb(ə)l 1Easily bent; flexible. 易弯的,柔韧的;灵活的,圆通的 quality leather is pliable and will not crack 高质量皮革是很柔韧且不会破裂的。 Example sentencesExamples - Well, in clay animation, each object is sculpted in clay or a similarly pliable material such as plasticine, usually around an armature.
- Immediately after the molt, the crab's new ‘soft shell’ is pliable and easily stretched.
- Using tweezers, Geoff carefully removed the tiny, pliable plastic disc.
- Most of them are cast in a somewhat soft and pliable plastic and at first I was disappointed in this thinking that a more rigid plastic would have been preferable.
- Their skin is very pliable and internal organs are easily punctured.
- They are covered in glistening, black scales, like the hooded serpents that steal the eggs from our hens, but stretched and pliable, like the most well-worked leather riding hand-coverings.
- Normal fats are very supple and pliable, but the trans fatty acid is a stiff fat that can build up in the body and create havoc.
- This physically elastic and histrionically pliable performer is as acrobatic on a stage as an aerialist under the big top.
- They make a huge range of PVC-based plastics more pliable and durable and improve the spreadability of antiperspirants, soaps and face creams.
- Phthalates are used to make plastic soft and pliable and in the past were found in soothers, teething toys, babies' bottles and other baby goods.
- Considered the next-generation in flat panel displays, this technology involves the use of pliable plastic instead of rigid glass in TFT-LCD production.
- Branches should be pliable and not snap very easily.
- In each work, the play of texture seems to transform the rigid stone into a more supple or pliable substance like plastic or clay.
- But when it is warm, the rubber is pliable and retains high elasticity, even when being stretched hard.
- The soft cuticle is pliable but tough and not easily pierced.
- An elastic, pliable lens is required to change your focus from your wingman to your kneeboard.
- If the sponge has been dampened in warm water, you will have a more pliable and flexible sponge.
- It was easily pliable, but amazingly tough, withstanding hundreds of pounds of pressure and scorching heat that could have charred the flesh off of a human being.
- Amorphous solids are thermally plastic, being hard, rigid, and brittle at low temperature, and soft, flexible, and pliable at high temperature.
- They use earplugs or soft, pliable pods attached to a flexible metal or plastic band, which can be used behind the head, under the chin, or over the head.
Synonyms flexible, easily bent, bendable, pliant, elastic, supple, stretchable, malleable, workable, plastic, whippy, springy, limber, ductile, tensile 2Easily influenced. 〈喻〉易受影响的 易受影响的青少年的心灵。 Example sentencesExamples - Born in 1922 and crowned in 1941 by French colonisers eager to install a pliable puppet, Sihanouk abdicated the throne in 1955 to contest the country's first elections.
- He was seen as overly reliant on handlers and aides, and easily pliable.
- When minds are young and pliable - government experts understand this principle - you can fill them with nonsense that is practically impossible to root out.
- They should know that all of us are pliable and suggestible to some degree, but that children are especially vulnerable to suggestive and leading questioning.
- In the 1930s, this led it into conflict with Franklin Roosevelt's economic programs, and provoked a Presidential threat to stack the Court with pliable appointees.
- In all likelihood, the team just wanted a more pliable head coach.
- So how can we cooperate with the Holy Spirit to receive this pliable heart?
- By contemplating compassion and love, we become familiar with the pliable mind of peace.
- 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.
- I came to know that though the Director was an efficient and upright officer, she happened to incur the Minister's displeasure for the simple reason that she was not pliable.
- However, research increasingly suggests that humans are just pliable puppets, with definable biological and chemical responses to certain stimuli.
- In this respect, the theory is pliable enough to accommodate varying Pagan paths.
- Then, as governor of Texas, he was graced with a pliable enough bipartisan Legislature, and the Legislature is where the real work in that state's governance gets done.
- There are hundreds more where you came from; they're campus-fresh, younger, pliable, cheaper and hungry for work at any cost.
- We'll just get our own grip on that pliable feminine mind!
- It took centuries to still the fear in some pliable animals - domestication it's called - but most cannot get over their fear, and I doubt they ever will.
- Is the government, is the political process pliable enough?
- I'm staggered by Arndt's apparent argument that education should be about preparing young people to be pliable media fodder in sporting and entertainment fields.
- Although modern, urban spaces were pliable enough to reflect historical changes, their concrete nature suggested that gender differences could not be eroded easily.
- In a similar way, those who wanted to embrace Jesus and the life he called them to needed to become pliable and flexible, willing to be taught a new way of thinking and acting.
Synonyms malleable, easily influenced, impressionable, flexible, adaptable, pliant, compliant, docile, biddable, tractable, like putty in one's hands, yielding, manageable, governable, controllable, amenable, accommodating, susceptible, suggestible, influenceable, persuadable, manipulable, responsive, receptive
OriginLate Middle English: from French, from plier ‘to bend’ (see ply). |