• noun:   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
• adjective:   used of the imagination

  Example: "Material...transformed by the plastic power of the imagination--Coleridge"

• adjective:   capable of being influenced or formed

  Example: "The plastic minds of children"

• adjective:   capable of being molded or modeled (especially of earth or clay or other soft material)

  Example: "Plastic substances such as wax or clay"

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