plastic

IPA: pɫˈæstɪk

A synthetic, solid, hydrocarbon-based polymer, whether thermoplastic or thermosetting.
(colloquial, metonymically) Credit or debit cards used in place of cash to buy goods and services.
(figurative, slang) insincerity; fakeness, or a person who is fake or arrogant, or believes that they are better than the rest of the population.
(slang, countable) An instance of plastic surgery.
(obsolete) A sculptor, moulder.
(archaic) Any solid but malleable substance.

Capable of being moulded; malleable, flexible, pliant.
(medicine, now rare) Producing tissue.
(dated) Creative, formative.
(biology) Capable of adapting to varying conditions; characterized by environmental adaptability.
Of or pertaining to the inelastic, non-brittle, deformation of a material.
Made of plastic.
Inferior or not the real thing.
(figurative, informal, of a person) fake; insincere.

Examples of "plastic" in Sentences

The material shows some plasticity.
The recyclables plastic are then shredded.
It is the putrescent pile for plastic bags.
The particles become embedded in the plastic.
The plastic then cools and hardens in the mold.
The product is useful in the plastics industry.
WoodForce tackles glass as plastic reinforcement.
Plasticity is the major explanation for the phenomena.
The abrasive pads are suitable for abrading glass or plastic lenses.
It is also used in the manufacture of plastics and as an insecticide.
Before going further, we first had to narrow the topic by differentiating among the wide spectrum of procedures that are often lumped together under the term plastic surgery.
The term plastic surgery usually makes people think of fake breasts and Botox injections but there are a whole slew of operations for all kinds of medically necessary problems.
Although almost all the talks given at the conference were about plastic pollution in our oceans, the resulting "Honolulu Strategy Document" from the conference doesn't use the term plastic pollution once.
Sadly while Iain Dale may have invented Blogging, he is certainly not the inventor of the term plastic poll card as he claimed yesterday, and again back in 2006 when he puts the date of this achievement as "way back in July" 2005 when preparing a speech with David Davis for the second reading of the iD Cards Bill.