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How to pronounce malleable in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms ductile
Type Words
Synonyms ductile, pliable, pliant, tensile, tractile
Derivation malleability


malleable metals such as gold.

Examples of malleable

malleable
The masculine gender role in the West has become more malleable since the 1950s.
From the en.wikipedia.org
Romney has proved time and again just how malleable he is on any and all issues.
From the latimes.com
This will make supercomputers usable and malleable tools for humanities majors.
From the forbes.com
The military wielded power behind the scenes over malleable elected presidents.
From the nytimes.com
Pizzelles are a traditional Italian holiday cookie, easy to make and malleable.
From the denverpost.com
Her ethics are as malleable as a fresh wad of Play-Doh, and about as palatable.
From the washingtonpost.com
As his success in those mock Cabinets shows, Zyuganov's politics are malleable.
From the time.com
It's catchy, vague and malleable, like many popular bits of political rhetoric.
From the newsfeed.time.com
Her rich, malleable vocals suggest, however, that she won't be caged for long.
From the telegraph.co.uk
More examples
  • Ductile: easily influenced
  • Ductile: capable of being shaped or bent or drawn out; "ductile copper"; "malleable metals such as gold"; "they soaked the leather to made it pliable"; "pliant molten glass"; "made of highly tensile steel alloy"
  • (malleability) the property of being physically malleable; the property of something that can be worked or hammered or shaped without breaking
  • Ductility is a mechanical property that describes the extent in which solid materials can be plastically deformed without fracture.
  • (Malleability (cryptography)) Malleability is a property of some cryptographic algorithms. An encryption algorithm is malleable if it is possible for an adversary to transform a ciphertext into another ciphertext which decrypts to a related plaintext. ...
  • Able to be hammered into thin sheets; capable of being extended or shaped by beating with a hammer, or by the pressure of rollers; Flexible, liable to change
  • (malleability) The quality or state of being malleable; The property by virtue of which a material can be extended in all directions without rupture by the application of load; a material's ability to be bent, formed, or shaped without cracking or breaking
  • (malleability) A mineral's ability to be hammered into thin sheets.
  • (Malleability) The property that determines the ease of deforming a metal when the metal is subjected to rolling or hammering. The more malleable metals can be hammered or rolled into thin sheet more easily than others.