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vastaanottava
maksukortti, muoviraha
plastinen
puhekieltä A sculptor, moulder.
puhekieltä Any solid but malleable substance.
A synthetic, thermoplastic, solid, hydrocarbon-based polymer.
(quote-magazine)
Any similar synthetic material, not necessarily thermoplastic.
puhekieltä credit card|Credit or debit cards used in place of cash to buy goods and services.
(quote-book)|year=2008|passage=It's all about fast cars and cussing each other / but it doesn't matter cause I'm packing plastic / and that's what makes my life so fucking fantastic.
puhekieltä Fakeness, or a person who is fake or arrogant, or believes that they are better than the rest of the population.
(quote-book)|page=|author=(w), (w)|year=2004|passage=Cady: You know I couldnt invite you. I had to pretend to be plastic.Janis: Hey, buddy, you're not pretending anymore. You're plastic. Cold, shiny, hard plastic.
(quote-book)''|page=|author=(w)|year=2011|passage=Tessa: Pretty ironic that a box full of rubbers landed me to a town full of plastic.
Capable of being moulded; malleable, flexible, pliant. (defdate)
1749, (w), w:Tom Jones|Tom Jones, Folio Society 1973, page 103:
- the rage (..) betook itself at last to certain missile weapons; which, though from their plastic nature they threatened neither the loss of life or of limb, were, however, sufficiently dreadful to a well-dressed lady.
1898, Journal of Microscopy (page 256)
- Plastic mud, brownish tinted, rich in floatings.
2012, Adam Zeman, ‘Only Connect’, Literary Review, issue 399:
- while the broad pattern of connections between brain regions is similar in every healthy human brain, their details – their number, size and strength – are thought to underpin our individuality, as synapses are ‘plastic’, shaped by experience.
puhekieltä Producing tissue. (defdate)
puhekieltä creative Creative, formative. (defdate)
Prior
- the plastic hand of the Creator
Alexander Pope
- See plastic Nature working to his end.
puhekieltä Capable of adapting to varying conditions; characterized by environmental adaptability. (defdate)
Of or pertaining to the inelastic, non-brittle, deformation of a material. (defdate)
Made of plastic. (defdate)
(quote-book)
Inferior or not the real thing; ersatz. (defdate)
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puhekieltä fake Fake, snobbish. Usually refers to a person.
plastic explosive
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