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adj
- having a capacity for adaptation
- Capable of being adapted or of adapting; susceptible of or undergoing accordant change.
- Of, pertaining to, characterized by or showing adaptation; making or made fit or suitable.
- (evolutionary theory) Of a trait: that helps an organism to function well in its environment.
- (psychology) Of a trait: that helps a person to function well in society.
verb
- adapt
- formulate in a particular style or language
- arrange thoughts, ideas, temporal events
- make an investment
- cause to be in a certain state; cause to be in a certain relation
- cause (someone) to undergo something
- put into a certain place or abstract location
- attribute or give
- estimate
- (finance) To sell (assets) under the terms of a put option.
- To set before one for judgment, acceptance, or rejection; to bring to the attention.
- To express (something in a certain manner).
- To play a card or a hand in the game called "put".
- To set as a calculation or estimate.
- (mining) To convey coal in the mine, as for example from the working to the tramway.
- (especially athletics) To throw with a pushing motion, especially in reference to the sport of shot put. (Do not confuse with putt.)
- To steer; to direct one's course; to go.
- To place in abstract; to attach or attribute; to assign.
- To physically place (something or someone somewhere).
- To bring or set (into a certain relation, state or condition).
noun
noun
- the process of adapting to something (such as environmental conditions)
- (uncountable) The process of adapting something or becoming adapted to a situation; adjustment, modification.
- a written work (as a novel) that has been recast in a new form
- (physiology) the responsive adjustment of a sense organ (as the eye) to varying conditions (as of light)
- (countable, authorship) An artistic work that has been adapted from a different medium.
- (countable, evolutionary theory) An instance of an organism undergoing change, or the structure or behavior that is changed.
- (countable) A change that is made or undergone to suit a condition or environment.
- (uncountable) The process of adapting an artistic work from a different medium.
- (sociology) The means by which social groups adapt to different social and physical environments.
- (uncountable, evolutionary theory) The process of change that an organism undergoes to be better suited to its environment.
noun
- the process of adapting to something (such as environmental conditions)
- the act of making something different (as e.g. the size of a garment)
- the act of adjusting something to match a standard
- making or becoming suitable; adjusting to circumstances
- an amount added or deducted on the basis of qualifying circumstances
- The result of adjusting something; a small change; a minor correction; a modification or alteration.
- The settling or balancing of a financial account.
- The assessment, by an insurance company, of a claim; the settlement of such a claim.
- The action of adjusting something.
- The behavioral process of balancing conflicting needs, or needs against obstacles in the environment.
noun
noun
- Adaptability.
- (computing) A system's ability to adapt to changes in workload by automatically provisioning and de-provisioning resources.
- (computing) A measure of the flexibility of a data store's data model and clustering capabilities.
- (mathematics) The ratio of the relative change in a function's output with respect to the relative change in its input, for infinitesimal changes at a certain point.
- The quality of being elastic.
- (physics) The property by virtue of which a material deformed under load can regain its original dimensions when unloaded
- (economics) The sensitivity of changes in a quantity with respect to changes in another quantity.
- the tendency of a body to return to its original shape after it has been stretched or compressed
noun
verb
verb
- (transitive) To adapt to live with humans.
- (intransitive) To adapt to live with humans.
- (transitive) To make a legal instrument recognized and enforceable in a jurisdiction foreign to the one in which the instrument was originally issued or created.
- (transitive) To make (more) fit for domestic life.
- (transitive) To make domestic.
- (transitive, translation studies) To amend the elements of a text to fit local culture.
- overcome the wildness of; make docile and tractable
- make fit for cultivation, domestic life, and service to humans
- adapt (a wild plant or unclaimed land) to the environment
noun
noun
- (biology) The evolutionary adaptation of one species to adaptive changes by another.
- (pharmacology) The development of tolerance; the adaptation of the body's homeostatic mechanisms to counteract a drug effect.
- (psychology) The distortion of one sensory modality that accompanies adaptation to alterations in a perceptual cues from a related modality.
noun
adj
- (by extension) Exhibiting an ability to adapt or develop in order to survive; adaptable.
- (by extension) Competitive, especially in a ruthless manner.
- (chiefly historical) Of or pertaining to the philosophical and scientific views, or poetic style, of the natural philosopher, physiologist, and poet Erasmus Darwin.
- Of or pertaining to the scientific views advanced by the English biologist, geologist, and naturalist Charles Darwin, especially his theory that living organisms evolve through the natural selection of inherited variations that increase organisms' ability to compete, survive, and reproduce.
- (by extension) Of or pertaining to Darwinism, which includes the theories of Charles Darwin and other scientists.
- Of or pertaining to Darwin, the capital city of the Northern Territory, Australia.
- of or relating to Charles Darwin's theory of organic evolution
noun
adj
- (biology) Capable of adapting to varying conditions; characterized by environmental adaptability.
- (figurative, derogatory) Inferior or not the real thing.
- Of or pertaining to the inelastic, non-brittle, deformation of a material.
- Made of plastic.
- (informal, birdwatching, of a species or individual bird) Introduced, rather than native or naturally vagrant.
- (figurative, informal, of a person) Fake, insincere, especially in a shallow and conformist way pretending to smoothness and glossy flawlessness.
- (informal, birdwatching, of an individual bird) Escaped from captivity, rather than wild.
- Capable of being moulded; malleable, flexible, pliant.
- capable of being influenced or formed
- capable of being molded or modeled (especially of earth or clay or other soft material)
- forming or capable of forming or molding or fashioning
noun
- (slang, countable) An instance of plastic surgery.
- (slang) Synonym of Plastic Paddy.
- (colloquial, metonymic) Credit or debit cards used in place of cash to buy goods and services.
- A synthetic, solid, hydrocarbon-based polymer, whether thermoplastic or thermosetting.
- (figurative, slang) Insincerity; fakeness; a person who is fake or arrogant, or believes that they are better than the rest of the population; a narcissistic, affected person.
- a card (usually plastic) that assures a seller that the person using it has sufficient means of payment and that the issuer will see to it that the seller receives payment for the merchandise delivered
- generic name for certain synthetic or semisynthetic materials that can be molded or extruded into objects or films or filaments or used for making e.g. coatings and adhesives
verb
- (transitive) To make proper or suitable; to adapt or fit.
- (transitive, said of clothes, hairstyle or other fashion item) To be suitable or apt for one's image.
- (intransitive, transitive) To please; to make content; to fit someone's (or one's own) taste.
- (transitive, figurative) To be appropriate or apt for.
- (intransitive) To agree; to be fitted; to correspond (usually followed by to, archaically also followed by with).
- (most commonly used in the passive form, intransitive) To dress; to clothe.
- be agreeable or acceptable to
- be agreeable or acceptable
- enhance the appearance of
- accord or comport with
noun
- Petition, request, entreaty.
- (by extension) A garment or set of garments suitable and/or required for a given task or activity: space suit, boiler suit, protective suit, swimsuit.
- The full set of sails required for a ship.
- (derogatory, slang, metonymic) A person who wears matching jacket and trousers, especially a boss or a supervisor.
- (clothing) A set of clothes to be worn together, now especially a man's matching jacket and trousers (also business suit or lounge suit), or a similar outfit for a woman.
- A full set of armour.
- (Pakistan, women's speech) A dress.
- Pursuit of a love-interest; wooing, courtship.
- (law) The attempt to gain an end by legal process; a process instituted in a court of law for the recovery of a right or claim; a lawsuit.
- (card games) Each of the sets of a pack of cards distinguished by colour and/or specific emblems, such as the spades, hearts, diamonds, or clubs of traditional Anglo, Hispanic, and French playing cards.
- playing card in any of four sets of 13 cards in a pack; each set has its own symbol and color
- (slang) a businessman dressed in a business suit
- a man's courting of a woman; seeking the affections of a woman (usually with the hope of marriage)
- a petition or appeal made to a person of superior status or rank
- a set of garments (usually including a jacket and trousers or skirt) for outerwear all of the same fabric and color
- a comprehensive term for any proceeding in a court of law whereby an individual seeks a legal remedy
verb
noun
- (nautical) A jiggermast.
- (slang, UK) Ellipsis of jigger gun (“lock pick”).
- (nautical) A light tackle, consisting of a double and single block and the fall, used for various purposes, as to increase the purchase on a topsail sheet in hauling it home; the watch tackle.
- (US) A placeholder name for any small mechanical device.
- (pottery) A horizontal lathe used in producing flatware.
- (rail transport, New Zealand) A railway jigger, a small motorized or human powered vehicle used by railway workers to traverse railway tracks.
- (US) A measure of 1½ fluid ounces (approx. 44 ml) of liquor.
- (New Zealand) A short board or plank inserted into a tree for a person to stand on while cutting off higher branches.
- A sandflea, Tunga penetrans, of the order Siphonaptera; chigoe.
- (US) A double-ended vessel, generally of stainless steel or other metal, one end of which typically measures 1½ fluid ounces (approx. 44 ml), the other typically 1 fluid ounce (approx. 30 ml).
- A pendulum rolling machine for slicking or graining leather.
- (Australia, surveying, slang) A total station or its predecessor, a theodolite.
- The bridge or rest for the cue in billiards.
- (mining) One who jigs; a miner who sorts or cleans ore by the process of jigging.
- (fishing) A device used by fishermen to set their nets under the ice of frozen lakes.
- (nautical, New England) A small fishing vessel, rigged like a yawl.
- A larva of any of several mites in the family Trombiculidae; chigger, harvest mite.
- (slang, euphemistic) A vagina.
- (mining) The sieve used in sorting or separating ore.
- (horse racing) An illicit electric shock device used to urge on a horse during a race.
- (textiles) A device used in the dyeing of cloth.
- (US, slang) A drink of whiskey.
- A warehouse crane.
- (slang) An illegal distillery.
- larval mite that sucks the blood of vertebrates including human beings causing intense irritation
- a small glass adequate to hold a single swallow of whiskey
- any small mast on a sailing vessel; especially the mizzenmast of a yawl
verb
- adapt or conform oneself to new or different conditions
- make fit for, or change to suit a new purpose
- (transitive) To fit by alteration; to modify or remodel for a different purpose; to adjust.
- (intransitive) To make oneself comfortable to a new thing.
- (transitive) To make by altering or fitting something else; to produce by change of form or character.
- (transitive) To make suitable; to make to correspond; to fit or suit.
adj
verb
- adapt or conform oneself to new or different conditions
- (intransitive) To change to fit circumstances.
- alter or regulate so as to achieve accuracy or conform to a standard
- place in a line or arrange so as to be parallel or straight
- make correspondent or conformable
- decide how much is to be paid on an insurance claim
- (transitive) To settle an insurance claim.
- (transitive) To improve or rectify.
- (transitive) To modify.
verb
- adapt or conform oneself to new or different conditions
- be similar, be in line with
- (transitive, intransitive, often followed by to) To change to more closely match typical characteristics or behavior.
- (intransitive, of things or procedures) To be as required or recommended by a specification, regulation, or policy.
- (transitive, intransitive) To adapt to something by more closely matching it, especially something normative.
verb
- (transitive) To assimilate mentally.
- (transitive) To engross or engage wholly; to occupy fully.
- (transitive, business) To assume or pay for as part of a commercial transaction.
- (transitive, physics) in receiving a physical impact or vibration without recoil.
- (transitive, physics) taking in radiant energy and converting it to a different form of energy, like heat.
- (transitive) To defray the costs.
- (transitive) To include so that it no longer has separate existence; to overwhelm; to cause to disappear as if by swallowing up; to incorporate; to assimilate; to take in and use up.
- (transitive, physics) in receiving sound energy without repercussion or echo.
- (intransitive) To be absorbed, or sucked in; to sink in.
- (transitive) To suck up; to drink in; to imbibe, like a sponge or as the lacteals of the body; to chemically take in.
- (transitive) To accept or purchase in quantity.
- (transitive) To occupy or consume time.
- (transitive, physics, chemistry) To take in energy and convert it.
- assimilate or take in
- become imbued
- devote (oneself) fully to
- cause to become one with
- consume all of one's attention or time
- suck or take up or in
- take up mentally
- take up, as of debts or payments
- take in, also metaphorically
verb
- (transitive) To adopt.
- (intransitive, usually with “to”, slang) To admit, especially to a crime or wrongdoing.
- (transitive, originally New York dialectal, informal, African-American Vernacular) To obtain, to purchase (items including but not limited to drugs), to get hold of, to take.
- (slang, transitive) To take (a look, glance, etc.).
- (transitive, slang, of a pimp) To recruit a prostitute into the stable.
- (transitive, trainspotting, slang) To see and record a railway locomotive for the first time.
- (transitive) To (be forced to) take; to receive; to shoulder; to bear, especially blame or punishment for a particular instance of wrongdoing.
- (transitive) To steal.
- take into custody
- take by theft
noun
- (military, historical) A roughly dome-shaped piece of armor, especially one covering the shoulder, the elbow, or the knee.
- (spinning) A conical ball of thread wound on to the spindle in a spinning machine.
- A quill or tube upon which silk is wound.
- (informal) A police officer or prison guard.
- (architecture, military) A merlon.
- uncomplimentary terms for a policeman
noun
- the process of adapting to something (such as environmental conditions)
- (uncountable) The process of adapting something or becoming adapted to a situation; adjustment, modification.
- a written work (as a novel) that has been recast in a new form
- (physiology) the responsive adjustment of a sense organ (as the eye) to varying conditions (as of light)
- (countable, authorship) An artistic work that has been adapted from a different medium.
- (countable, evolutionary theory) An instance of an organism undergoing change, or the structure or behavior that is changed.
- (countable) A change that is made or undergone to suit a condition or environment.
- (uncountable) The process of adapting an artistic work from a different medium.
- (sociology) The means by which social groups adapt to different social and physical environments.
- (uncountable, evolutionary theory) The process of change that an organism undergoes to be better suited to its environment.
noun
- the process of adapting to something (such as environmental conditions)
- the act of making something different (as e.g. the size of a garment)
- the act of adjusting something to match a standard
- making or becoming suitable; adjusting to circumstances
- an amount added or deducted on the basis of qualifying circumstances
- The result of adjusting something; a small change; a minor correction; a modification or alteration.
- The settling or balancing of a financial account.
- The assessment, by an insurance company, of a claim; the settlement of such a claim.
- The action of adjusting something.
- The behavioral process of balancing conflicting needs, or needs against obstacles in the environment.
noun
noun
- Adaptability.
- (computing) A system's ability to adapt to changes in workload by automatically provisioning and de-provisioning resources.
- (computing) A measure of the flexibility of a data store's data model and clustering capabilities.
- (mathematics) The ratio of the relative change in a function's output with respect to the relative change in its input, for infinitesimal changes at a certain point.
- The quality of being elastic.
- (physics) The property by virtue of which a material deformed under load can regain its original dimensions when unloaded
- (economics) The sensitivity of changes in a quantity with respect to changes in another quantity.
- the tendency of a body to return to its original shape after it has been stretched or compressed
noun
verb
noun
- (biology) The evolutionary adaptation of one species to adaptive changes by another.
- (pharmacology) The development of tolerance; the adaptation of the body's homeostatic mechanisms to counteract a drug effect.
- (psychology) The distortion of one sensory modality that accompanies adaptation to alterations in a perceptual cues from a related modality.
noun
verb
- adapt
- formulate in a particular style or language
- arrange thoughts, ideas, temporal events
- make an investment
- cause to be in a certain state; cause to be in a certain relation
- cause (someone) to undergo something
- put into a certain place or abstract location
- attribute or give
- estimate
- (finance) To sell (assets) under the terms of a put option.
- To set before one for judgment, acceptance, or rejection; to bring to the attention.
- To express (something in a certain manner).
- To play a card or a hand in the game called "put".
- To set as a calculation or estimate.
- (mining) To convey coal in the mine, as for example from the working to the tramway.
- (especially athletics) To throw with a pushing motion, especially in reference to the sport of shot put. (Do not confuse with putt.)
- To steer; to direct one's course; to go.
- To place in abstract; to attach or attribute; to assign.
- To physically place (something or someone somewhere).
- To bring or set (into a certain relation, state or condition).
noun
noun
verb
verb
- (transitive) To adapt to live with humans.
- (intransitive) To adapt to live with humans.
- (transitive) To make a legal instrument recognized and enforceable in a jurisdiction foreign to the one in which the instrument was originally issued or created.
- (transitive) To make (more) fit for domestic life.
- (transitive) To make domestic.
- (transitive, translation studies) To amend the elements of a text to fit local culture.
- overcome the wildness of; make docile and tractable
- make fit for cultivation, domestic life, and service to humans
- adapt (a wild plant or unclaimed land) to the environment
noun
verb
- (transitive) To make proper or suitable; to adapt or fit.
- (transitive, said of clothes, hairstyle or other fashion item) To be suitable or apt for one's image.
- (intransitive, transitive) To please; to make content; to fit someone's (or one's own) taste.
- (transitive, figurative) To be appropriate or apt for.
- (intransitive) To agree; to be fitted; to correspond (usually followed by to, archaically also followed by with).
- (most commonly used in the passive form, intransitive) To dress; to clothe.
- be agreeable or acceptable to
- be agreeable or acceptable
- enhance the appearance of
- accord or comport with
noun
- Petition, request, entreaty.
- (by extension) A garment or set of garments suitable and/or required for a given task or activity: space suit, boiler suit, protective suit, swimsuit.
- The full set of sails required for a ship.
- (derogatory, slang, metonymic) A person who wears matching jacket and trousers, especially a boss or a supervisor.
- (clothing) A set of clothes to be worn together, now especially a man's matching jacket and trousers (also business suit or lounge suit), or a similar outfit for a woman.
- A full set of armour.
- (Pakistan, women's speech) A dress.
- Pursuit of a love-interest; wooing, courtship.
- (law) The attempt to gain an end by legal process; a process instituted in a court of law for the recovery of a right or claim; a lawsuit.
- (card games) Each of the sets of a pack of cards distinguished by colour and/or specific emblems, such as the spades, hearts, diamonds, or clubs of traditional Anglo, Hispanic, and French playing cards.
- playing card in any of four sets of 13 cards in a pack; each set has its own symbol and color
- (slang) a businessman dressed in a business suit
- a man's courting of a woman; seeking the affections of a woman (usually with the hope of marriage)
- a petition or appeal made to a person of superior status or rank
- a set of garments (usually including a jacket and trousers or skirt) for outerwear all of the same fabric and color
- a comprehensive term for any proceeding in a court of law whereby an individual seeks a legal remedy
verb
noun
- (nautical) A jiggermast.
- (slang, UK) Ellipsis of jigger gun (“lock pick”).
- (nautical) A light tackle, consisting of a double and single block and the fall, used for various purposes, as to increase the purchase on a topsail sheet in hauling it home; the watch tackle.
- (US) A placeholder name for any small mechanical device.
- (pottery) A horizontal lathe used in producing flatware.
- (rail transport, New Zealand) A railway jigger, a small motorized or human powered vehicle used by railway workers to traverse railway tracks.
- (US) A measure of 1½ fluid ounces (approx. 44 ml) of liquor.
- (New Zealand) A short board or plank inserted into a tree for a person to stand on while cutting off higher branches.
- A sandflea, Tunga penetrans, of the order Siphonaptera; chigoe.
- (US) A double-ended vessel, generally of stainless steel or other metal, one end of which typically measures 1½ fluid ounces (approx. 44 ml), the other typically 1 fluid ounce (approx. 30 ml).
- A pendulum rolling machine for slicking or graining leather.
- (Australia, surveying, slang) A total station or its predecessor, a theodolite.
- The bridge or rest for the cue in billiards.
- (mining) One who jigs; a miner who sorts or cleans ore by the process of jigging.
- (fishing) A device used by fishermen to set their nets under the ice of frozen lakes.
- (nautical, New England) A small fishing vessel, rigged like a yawl.
- A larva of any of several mites in the family Trombiculidae; chigger, harvest mite.
- (slang, euphemistic) A vagina.
- (mining) The sieve used in sorting or separating ore.
- (horse racing) An illicit electric shock device used to urge on a horse during a race.
- (textiles) A device used in the dyeing of cloth.
- (US, slang) A drink of whiskey.
- A warehouse crane.
- (slang) An illegal distillery.
- larval mite that sucks the blood of vertebrates including human beings causing intense irritation
- a small glass adequate to hold a single swallow of whiskey
- any small mast on a sailing vessel; especially the mizzenmast of a yawl
verb
- adapt or conform oneself to new or different conditions
- make fit for, or change to suit a new purpose
- (transitive) To fit by alteration; to modify or remodel for a different purpose; to adjust.
- (intransitive) To make oneself comfortable to a new thing.
- (transitive) To make by altering or fitting something else; to produce by change of form or character.
- (transitive) To make suitable; to make to correspond; to fit or suit.
adj
verb
- adapt or conform oneself to new or different conditions
- (intransitive) To change to fit circumstances.
- alter or regulate so as to achieve accuracy or conform to a standard
- place in a line or arrange so as to be parallel or straight
- make correspondent or conformable
- decide how much is to be paid on an insurance claim
- (transitive) To settle an insurance claim.
- (transitive) To improve or rectify.
- (transitive) To modify.
verb
- adapt or conform oneself to new or different conditions
- be similar, be in line with
- (transitive, intransitive, often followed by to) To change to more closely match typical characteristics or behavior.
- (intransitive, of things or procedures) To be as required or recommended by a specification, regulation, or policy.
- (transitive, intransitive) To adapt to something by more closely matching it, especially something normative.
verb
- (transitive) To assimilate mentally.
- (transitive) To engross or engage wholly; to occupy fully.
- (transitive, business) To assume or pay for as part of a commercial transaction.
- (transitive, physics) in receiving a physical impact or vibration without recoil.
- (transitive, physics) taking in radiant energy and converting it to a different form of energy, like heat.
- (transitive) To defray the costs.
- (transitive) To include so that it no longer has separate existence; to overwhelm; to cause to disappear as if by swallowing up; to incorporate; to assimilate; to take in and use up.
- (transitive, physics) in receiving sound energy without repercussion or echo.
- (intransitive) To be absorbed, or sucked in; to sink in.
- (transitive) To suck up; to drink in; to imbibe, like a sponge or as the lacteals of the body; to chemically take in.
- (transitive) To accept or purchase in quantity.
- (transitive) To occupy or consume time.
- (transitive, physics, chemistry) To take in energy and convert it.
- assimilate or take in
- become imbued
- devote (oneself) fully to
- cause to become one with
- consume all of one's attention or time
- suck or take up or in
- take up mentally
- take up, as of debts or payments
- take in, also metaphorically
verb
- (transitive) To adopt.
- (intransitive, usually with “to”, slang) To admit, especially to a crime or wrongdoing.
- (transitive, originally New York dialectal, informal, African-American Vernacular) To obtain, to purchase (items including but not limited to drugs), to get hold of, to take.
- (slang, transitive) To take (a look, glance, etc.).
- (transitive, slang, of a pimp) To recruit a prostitute into the stable.
- (transitive, trainspotting, slang) To see and record a railway locomotive for the first time.
- (transitive) To (be forced to) take; to receive; to shoulder; to bear, especially blame or punishment for a particular instance of wrongdoing.
- (transitive) To steal.
- take into custody
- take by theft
noun
- (military, historical) A roughly dome-shaped piece of armor, especially one covering the shoulder, the elbow, or the knee.
- (spinning) A conical ball of thread wound on to the spindle in a spinning machine.
- A quill or tube upon which silk is wound.
- (informal) A police officer or prison guard.
- (architecture, military) A merlon.
- uncomplimentary terms for a policeman
adj
- having a capacity for adaptation
- Capable of being adapted or of adapting; susceptible of or undergoing accordant change.
- Of, pertaining to, characterized by or showing adaptation; making or made fit or suitable.
- (evolutionary theory) Of a trait: that helps an organism to function well in its environment.
- (psychology) Of a trait: that helps a person to function well in society.
adj
- (by extension) Exhibiting an ability to adapt or develop in order to survive; adaptable.
- (by extension) Competitive, especially in a ruthless manner.
- (chiefly historical) Of or pertaining to the philosophical and scientific views, or poetic style, of the natural philosopher, physiologist, and poet Erasmus Darwin.
- Of or pertaining to the scientific views advanced by the English biologist, geologist, and naturalist Charles Darwin, especially his theory that living organisms evolve through the natural selection of inherited variations that increase organisms' ability to compete, survive, and reproduce.
- (by extension) Of or pertaining to Darwinism, which includes the theories of Charles Darwin and other scientists.
- Of or pertaining to Darwin, the capital city of the Northern Territory, Australia.
- of or relating to Charles Darwin's theory of organic evolution
noun
adj
- (biology) Capable of adapting to varying conditions; characterized by environmental adaptability.
- (figurative, derogatory) Inferior or not the real thing.
- Of or pertaining to the inelastic, non-brittle, deformation of a material.
- Made of plastic.
- (informal, birdwatching, of a species or individual bird) Introduced, rather than native or naturally vagrant.
- (figurative, informal, of a person) Fake, insincere, especially in a shallow and conformist way pretending to smoothness and glossy flawlessness.
- (informal, birdwatching, of an individual bird) Escaped from captivity, rather than wild.
- Capable of being moulded; malleable, flexible, pliant.
- capable of being influenced or formed
- capable of being molded or modeled (especially of earth or clay or other soft material)
- forming or capable of forming or molding or fashioning
noun
- (slang, countable) An instance of plastic surgery.
- (slang) Synonym of Plastic Paddy.
- (colloquial, metonymic) Credit or debit cards used in place of cash to buy goods and services.
- A synthetic, solid, hydrocarbon-based polymer, whether thermoplastic or thermosetting.
- (figurative, slang) Insincerity; fakeness; a person who is fake or arrogant, or believes that they are better than the rest of the population; a narcissistic, affected person.
- a card (usually plastic) that assures a seller that the person using it has sufficient means of payment and that the issuer will see to it that the seller receives payment for the merchandise delivered
- generic name for certain synthetic or semisynthetic materials that can be molded or extruded into objects or films or filaments or used for making e.g. coatings and adhesives