Definitions for plastics
plastics
plas·tics
Spelling: [plas-tiks]
IPA: /ˈplæs tɪks/
Plastics is a 8 letter English word.
It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points.
It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.
You can make 337 anagrams from letters in plastics (acilpsst).
Definitions for plastics
noun
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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:
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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:
adjective
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of or relating to a plastic or plastics:
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made of plastic.
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capable of being molded or of receiving form:
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produced by molding:
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having the power of molding or shaping formless or yielding material:
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being able to create, especially within an art form; having the power to give form or formal expression:
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Fine Arts.
concerned with or pertaining to molding or modeling; sculptural.
relating to three-dimensional form or space, especially on a two-dimensional surface.
pertaining to the tools or techniques of drawing, painting, or sculpture:
characterized by an emphasis on formal structure:
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pliable; impressionable:
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giving the impression of being made of or furnished with plastic:
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artificial or insincere; synthetic; phony:
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lacking in depth, individuality, or permanence; superficial, dehumanized, or mass-produced:
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of or relating to the use of credit cards:
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Biology, Pathology. formative.
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Surgery. concerned with or pertaining to the remedying or restoring of malformed, injured, or lost parts:
Origin of plastics
First recorded in 1920-25; See origin at plastic, -ics
Examples for plastics
After all, he rationalized, plastics are notoriously unstable under certain conditions.
Recently though, China has imposed restrictions on foreign trash and become pickier about what types of plastics it will accept.
With the third blow the plastics cell cracked and the lignin poured out, a syrupy curtain sliding down.
Composites—in effect, laminations of many layers of carbon fiber, other plastics, as well as adhesives—are a chemical cocktail.
Even the ruined motors looked as though they were made of plastics.
From what was left of their hangar, their planes were made of plastics—not a piece of metal in them.
The creator of 'Mean Mad Men' Tumblr imagines Betty and Don Draper as the plastics.
Even with body parts taken off ledger, there is undeniably a lot of dough in plastics.
I have been working on this for months with a plastics company.
Factory workers told journalists that they manufactured underwear and plastics in two separate sections of the factory.