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Meanings of tensile in English
Synonyms
Examples for "pliable"
Examples for "pliable"
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It is pliable as wax; you can mould it by your will.
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A coil of strong, pliable wire had been included in our material.
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Cheesecloth is the softest, most pliable material, and the most easily managed.
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While the tofu cooks, let them heat enough to become just pliable.
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MRI supported these findings and showed pliable xenograft cusps in all patients.
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At least one part of the economy is still pliant: China's currency.
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The simple natures and forces will always be the most pliant ones.
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She recoils from everything but the plastic, the pliant, and the indefinite.
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But he was overwhelmed by the girl and her young pliant warmth.
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To such a spirit the impossible is possible and opportunity is pliant.
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Human telos, on the other hand, is far more plastic and malleable.
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Had it found others to love, others infinitely more malleable and useful?
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Together, they supposedly offer both better-quality photos and much more malleable ones.
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Jenny or Jade-howcan she allow her identity to be so malleable?
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They are divided into two classes, the malleable and the brittle metals.
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Where is Kit, my kinsman; the ductile, the sagacious, the loyal Christopher?
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He could feel strand after strand of wires, ductile and cloth-covered wires.
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She has laboriously wrought this ductile nervous tissue to her own ends.
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The fire-boxes were also made of steel of very soft and ductile quality.
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The toughest and most knotty parts of language became ductile at his touch.
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The shy hairy men who herd the tractile flocks might be, except for some added clothing, the very brethren of David.
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True, many chronic diseases are obstinate, yet a course of restorative medication persistently followed, promises a fortunate issue in this tractile temperament.
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The error in question is, that hard-surfaced wheels will not bite on a moderately rough surface, sufficiently to give an efficient tractile power.
Usage of tensile in English
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Collagen type I provides the main tensile strength of the fetal membranes.
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These lines've got great tensile strength, but they're crap for heat resistance.
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Hip-hop can be stretched in a way that exceeds its tensile strength.
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When made into briquettes, the tensile breaking strain upon the square inch:
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The skin specimens were analyzed in vertical and horizontal tensile strength tests.
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Now, Howat told himself, it was merely a question of tensile strength.
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He turned like a weapon on a turret: tensile, dark and cocked.
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Black spandex, pulled to its tensile limits, struggled to cover her rump.
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She reminded him of a panther: fierce, her limbs moving with tensile strength.
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These bubbles are a major source of tensile strain in the c-Si layer.
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In vivo, endothelial cells are constantly exposed to pulsatile shear and tensile stresses.
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Compared with CS-control film, CS-PC films exhibited lower solubility and higher tensile strength.
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The strength of a material can be describe by the ultimate tensile strength.
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Its tensile strength would be the equivalent of an eighteen-mile wall of steel.
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Completely acellular cornea scaffolds were subjected to uniaxial tensile testing and reseeding assay.
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When it stops, it has a high and obstinate tensile strength.
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