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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 often known by trademark names, as Bakelite, Vinylite, or Lucite.
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a credit card, or credit cards collectively, usually made of plastic: He had a whole pocketful of plastic.
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money, payment, or credit represented by the use of a credit card or cards.
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something, or a group of things, made of or resembling plastic: The entire meal was served on plastic.
–adjective
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made of plastic.
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capable of being molded or of receiving form: clay and other plastic substances.
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produced by molding: plastic figures.
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having the power of molding or shaping formless or yielding material: the plastic forces of nature.
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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.
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Fine Arts.
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concerned with or pertaining to molding or modeling; sculptural.
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relating to three-dimensional form or space, esp. on a two-dimensional surface.
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pertaining to the tools or techniques of drawing, painting, or sculpture: the plastic means.
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characterized by an emphasis on formal structure: plastic requirements of a picture.
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pliable; impressionable: the plastic mind of youth.
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giving the impression of being made of or furnished with plastic: We stayed at one of those plastic motels.
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artificial or insincere; synthetic; phony: jeans made of cotton, not some plastic substitute; a plastic smile.
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lacking in depth, individuality, or permanence; superficial, dehumanized, or mass-produced: a plastic society interested only in material acquisition.
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of or pertaining to the use of credit cards: plastic credit; plastic money.
a thin layer or coating: a film of grease on a plate.
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a thin sheet of any material: a film of ice.
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a thin skin or membrane.
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a delicate web of filaments or fine threads.
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a thin haze, blur, or mist.
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Photography.
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a cellulose nitrate or cellulose acetate composition made in thin sheets or strips and coated with a sensitive emulsion for taking photographs.
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a strip or roll of this.
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the coating of emulsion on such a sheet or strip or on a photographic plate.
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Movies.
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a strip of transparent material, usually cellulose triacetate, covered with a photographic emulsion and perforated along one or both edges, intended for the recording and reproduction of images.
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a similar perforated strip covered with an iron oxide emulsion (magfilm), intended for the recording and reproduction of both images and sound.
Business and Industry Review The plastics industry, relatively immune to the business recession of the early 1990s, continued its healthy growth during 1996. In terms of production, the major plastic materials in 1995, the last ...
Business and Industry Review In 1997 the world used 130 million metric tons of plastic materials. In terms of volume, the most common plastic was high-density polyethylene (HDPE), used mainly in the manufacture of bottles and ...
Business and Industry Review World production of plastics in 1997 reached 286 billion lb and was projected to grow to 330 billion lb by the year 2000 (1 lb = 0.454 kg). In the U.S., production of 78 billion lb valued at $275 ...
technology, history of The quality of plasticity is one that had been used to great effect in the crafts of metallurgy and ceramics. The use of the word plastics as a collective noun, however, refers not so much to the ...
Industrial Review Although it was calculated that world consumption of plastics topped 100 million metric tons in 1993 for the first time, with a growth rate from 1992 of 3-4%, in all developed countries the industry ...
balloon flight Jean Piccard realized that the giant single-cell balloon had reached the end of its practical development. Larger balloons would require heavier fabric with diminishing returns. Small latex balloons ...
chemical industry Most of the above-mentioned groups of chemicals that can be used either as plastics or elastomers can also be made into the form of coherent films. In the more highly industrialized countries there ...
plastic The processing of raw materials into usable forms is termed fabrication or conversion. An example from the plastics industry would be the conversion of plastic pellets into films or the conversion of ...
printing Composition on film consists of a mounting operation carried out on a luminous table. Films of the text and titles and positives or negatives of the screened or unscreened photographs, depending on ...
optics A colour filter is a sheet of transparent material that modifies a light beam by selective absorption of some colours in relation to others. A neutral filter absorbs all wavelengths equally and ...
Hamilton Spectator - Found Oct. 14, 2008 It has been nicknamed Charlie, but the plastic film grabber has a much more serious role than its friendly moniker would imply.
Business Info Bangladesh - Found Oct. 14, 2008 ... can directly extrude all kinds of thermoplasticity plastic especially the hard pvc powder into pipes, plate, sheet, film, profiles and so on...
Electronic Engineering Times Asia - Found Oct. 13, 2008 ... facility, preparing for the commercialization and mass production of its patent-protected thin film solar material, Power Plastic.
IDS Packaging - Found Oct. 9, 2008 ... average plastic bags, dispersing into the product being mixed and becoming a minor component of the fin ished compound. LMLT is a plastic film...
RTE Online - Found Oct. 8, 2008 Bond star Daniel Craig has admitted to having plastic surgery to fix injuries sustained while filming the latest Bond film, 'Quantum of Solace'.
