Plastic Definition–noun | 1. | Often, plastics. any of a group of synthetic or natural organic materials that may be shaped when soft and then hardened, including many types of resins, resinoids, polymers, cellulose derivatives, casein materials, and proteins: used in place of other materials, as glass, wood, and metals, in construction and decoration, for making many articles, as coatings, and, drawn into filaments, for weaving. They are oft
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en known by trademark names, as Bakelite, Vinylite, or Lucite. | | 2. | a credit card, or credit cards collectively, usually made of plastic: He had a whole pocketful of plastic. | | 3. | money, payment, or credit represented by the use of a credit card or cards. | | 4. | something, or a group of things, made of or resembling plastic: The entire meal was served on plastic. | –adjective | 6. | capable of being molded or of receiving form: clay and other plastic substances. | | 7. | produced by moldin
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g: plastic figures. | | 8. | having the power of molding or shaping formless or yielding material: the plastic forces of nature. | | 9. | being able to create, esp. within an art form; having the power to give form or formal expression: the plastic imagination of great poets and composers. | | 10. | Fine Arts. | a. | concerned with or pertaining to molding or modeling; sculptural. | | b. | relating to three-dimensional form or space, esp. on a two-dimensional surface. | | c. | pertaining to the tools or techniques of drawing, painting, or sculpture: the plastic means. | | d. | characterized by an emphasis on formal structure: plastic requirements of a picture. | | | 11. | pliable; impressionable: the plastic mind of youth. | | 12. | giving the impression of being made of or furnished with plastic: We stayed at one of those plastic motels. | | 13. | artificial or insincere; synthetic; phony: jeans made of cotton, not some plastic substitute; a plastic smile. | | 14. | lacking in depth, individuality, or permanence; superficial, dehumanized, or mass-produced: a plastic society interested only in material acquisition. | | 15. | of or pertaining to the use of credit cards: plastic credit; plastic money. | | 17. | Surgery. concerned with or pertaining to the remedying or restoring of malformed, injured, or lost parts: a plastic operation. | |
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Bag Definition–noun | 1. | a container or receptacle of leather, plastic, cloth, paper, etc., capable of being closed at the mouth; pouch. | | 2. | something resembling or suggesting such a receptacle. | | 3. | a suitcase or other portable container for carrying articles, as in traveling. | | 5. | the amount or quantity a bag can hold. | | 6. | any of various measures of capacity. | | 7. | a sac, as in an animal body. | | 9. | Slang. a small glassine or cellophane envelope containing a narcotic drug or a mixture of narcotics. | | 10. | something hanging in a loose, pouchlike manner, as skin or cloth; a baggy part: He had bags under his eyes from lack of sleep. | | 11. | Baseball. base 1 (def. 8b). | | 12. | Hunting. the amount of game taken, esp. by one hunter in one hunting trip or over a specified period. | | 13. | Slang. | a. | a person's avocation, hobby, major interest, or obsession: Jazz isn't my bag. | | b. | a person's mood or frame of mind: The boss is in a mean bag today. | | c. | an environment, condition, or situation. | | | 14. | bags, | a. | Informal. plenty; much; many (usually fol. by of): bags of time; bags of money. | | –verb (used without object) | 15. | to swell or bulge: A stiff breeze made the sails bag out. | | 16. | to hang loosely like an empty bag: His socks bagged at the ankles. | | 17. | to pack groceries or other items into a bag. | –verb (used with object) | 18. | to cause to swell or bulge; distend: The wind bagged the curtain. | | 20. | Informal. to kill or catch, as in hunting: I bagged my first deer when I was a teenager. | | 21. | Theater. clew (def. 9a). | –interjection | 22. | bags! British Slang. (used to lay first claim to something): Bags it! Bags, I go first! | —Idioms | 23. | Slang. to quit, abandon, or skip: I bagged my math class today. We'd better bag the deal. I was working too hard so I decided to bag it. | | 24. | bag and baggage, | a. | with all one's personal property: When they went to collect the rent, they found he had left, bag and baggage
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. | | b. | completely, totally: The equipment had disappeared, bag and baggage, without even the slightest trace. | | | 25. | bag of bones, an emaciated person or animal. | | 26. | bag of tricks, a supply of expedient resources; stratagems: Maybe they will finally be honest with us, once they've run through their bag of tricks. | | 27. | hold the bag, Informal. to be forced to bear the entire blame, responsibility, or loss that was to have been shared: His accomplices flew to South America on news of the theft and left him holding the bag. | | 28. | in the bag, Informal. virtually certain; assured; definite: Her promotion is in the bag. The sale of the house is in the bag. | | 29. | old bag, Slang. an unattractive, often slatternly woman: a gossipy old bag. | |
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