Elastic

Definitions: Elastic

Elastic

Adjective

1. Capable of resuming original shape after stretching or compression; springy; "an elastic band"; "a youthful and elastic walk".

2. Able to adjust readily to different conditions; "an adaptable person"; "a flexible personality"; "an elastic clause in a contract".

Noun

1. A narrow band of elastic rubber used to hold things (such as papers) together.

2. An elastic fabric made of yarns containing an elastic material.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "elastic" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1615. (references)

Health

Mining

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Synonyms: Elastic

Elasticity

Verb: stretch, flex, extend, distend, be elastic. Adjective: bounce, spring back. (recoil).

Rubber, India(n) rubber, latex, caoutchouc, whalebone, gum elastic, baleen, natural rubber; neoprene, synthetic rubber, Buna-S, plastic.

Adjective: elastic, flexible, tensile, spring, resilient, renitent, buoyant; ductile, stretchable, extendable.

Gaseity

Elastic fluid, gas, air, vapor, ether, steam, essence, fume, reek, effluvium, flatus; cloud; ammonia, ammoniacal gas; volatile alkali; vacuum, partial vacuum.

Recoil

Elastic collision, coefficient of restitution.

Crosswords: Elastic

Romanian (buoyant, ductile, elastic, elastically, extensible, flexibile, rebounding, resilient, springy, supple, tensile, yielding).

Well, fortunately, small boys are extremely springy and elastic. So I think we'll put him in my special taffy-pulling machine. (Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory; writing credit: Roald Dahl)

An Elastic Affair (1930)

The Elastic Zenith (1996)

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References

• Elastic Networks Inc.: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

• The World Market for Knitted or Crocheted Fabrics Exceeding 30 cm Wide with At Least 5% by Weight of Elastic Yarn or Rubber Thread: A 2004 Global Trade Perspective (reference)

  (more reference examples)

Books

• Analysis and Design of Elastic Beams: Computational Methods (reference)

• Elastic Waves in Solids 1 (Advanced Texts in Physics) (reference)

• Fresh Elastic for Stretched Out Moms (reference)

• Mechanics of Materials : An Introduction to the Materials of Elastic and Plastic Deformation of Solids and Structural Components, Pt 2 (Pergamon Intl) (reference)

• Non-Linear Elastic Deformations (reference)

  (more book examples)

Theater & Movies

• The Elastic Zenith (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Elastic (reference)

• I Am an Elastic Firecracker (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

High Tech

• ELASTIC SOFTWARE FAVORITE CARD (reference)

  (more camera examples; more video game examples; more computer examples; more electronic examples; more software examples)

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Hooper's Invalid Bed-Lift and Elastic Water Mattress.Credit: National Library of Medicine.

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His hands were in his sidepockets and his trousers were tucked in at the knees by elastic bands.

To him whose elastic and vigorous thought keeps pace with the sun, the day is a perpetual morning.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Health

They are essential for the integrity of elastic fibers. (references)

The inner-surface membrane of the chambers is a sheath of elastic fibers. (references)

Like a balloon, the bladder's elastic walls stretch and expand to store urine. (references)

Business

It is desired to replace the traditional combined production line with the high-speed horizontal machine center to produce auto parts such as gearbox and cylinder lids. The elastic relationship between China's sedan car output and the consumption of CNC machine tools is that for every 1% increase in the sedan car output CNC machine tool consumption will increase 0.54%. This reflects that large machine tool demand that will be generated by the automobile industry. (references)

Civil Liberties

Uganda

The Constitution also forbids other activities that would interfere with the Movement system, an elastic provision that the Government, in the past, has interpreted to the detriment of political groups' interests. (references)

Economic History

Bulgaria

Consumer demand is price elastic in Bulgaria. (references)

Ecuador

Cosmetics have an elastic demand curve, which makes consumers very price sensitive. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Expressions using "elastic": be elastic ♦ elastic band ♦ elastic bandage ♦ Elastic bitumen ♦ elastic collision ♦ Elastic curve ♦ elastic device ♦ elastic energy ♦ elastic fabric ♦ Elastic fluid ♦ Elastic fluids ♦ Elastic gum ♦ Elastic limit ♦ elastic modulus ♦ elastic potential energy ♦ elastic sides ♦ elastic supply ♦ Elastic tissue ♦ elastic waist ♦ elastic wave ♦ elastic word ♦ gum elastic ♦ inelastic vs elastic ♦ spider elastic. Additional references.

Beginning with "elastic": elastic-banded, elastic-sided, elastic-waisted.

Ending with "elastic": income-elastic, interest-elastic, iso-elastic, price-elastic.

Albanian

elastik (flexible, limber, non-rigid, pliable, pliant, resilient, springy, tensile), llastik (eraser, gum, rubber), i përshtatshëm (adapt, adequate, adjustable, appropriate, becoming, befitting, canny, comely, competent, congruous, convenient, decent, desirable, done, due, eligible, expedient, fit, fitting, germane, handy, likely, livable, liveable, opportune, Pat, proper, propitious, qualified, rated, relevant, seemly, suitable, suited, tenable, well-becoming, well-suited), i gjallë (above ground, alive, animate, animated, breathing, brisk, buckish, buoyant, busy, canty, colorful, colourful, crude, dapper, dashing, dynamic, erect, fresh, frisky, glowing, graphic, graphical, green, humming, intense, jocund, keen, larky, live, lively, living, mercurial, nimble, noisy, perky, pert, picturesque, playful, poignant, quick, raw, red blooded, saucy, skittish, smart, snappy, spirited, sprightly, spry, uncooked, vital, vivacious, vivid). (various references)

Arabic 

‏متمغط, ‏مطاط (caoutchouc, rubber), ‏مرن (ductile, field, flexible, limber, lissom, lissome, lithesome, malleable, plastic, pliable, pliant, resilient, supple, yielding), ‏نسيج متمغط, ‏لين (clemency, ductile, flabbiness, flabby, flaccid, flaccidity, flexible, gentleness, lax, laxity, lenience, leniency, limp, limpness, loose, make flexible, make soft, make tender, malleable, manageable, mellow, mildness, moderate, plastic, plasticize, pliable, pliant, resilient, soft, soften, supple, temper, tender, yielding), ‏لدن (ductile, flexible, limber, lissom, lissome, lithe, lithesome, plastic, pliant, soft, supple, yielding), ‏قابل للتمدد, ‏المطوط. (various references)

Bulgarian 

гъвкав (facile, flexible, light-heeled, lightsome, limber, lissom, lissome, lithe, lithesome, plastic, pliable, pliant, resilient, sinuous, snaky, soft, supple, svelte, tractable, versatile, willowy), оптимистичен (optimistic, optimistical, rosy, sanguine, sunny, upbeat), жизнерадостен (cheery, debonair, genial, high-spirited, jaunty, sanguine), еластичен (distensible, ductile, pliable, resilient, rubbery, spongy, springy, stretch, stretchy, supple), ластичен, пъргав (active, agile, alert, alive, deft, lissom, lithesome, lively, nifty, nimble, nippy, pretty, prompt, quick, ready, resilient, sinuous, smart, snappy, spring, spry, versatile, volatile, wanton, warm, whippy, zippy). (various references)

Chinese 

鬆緊帶 , 有弹性 (bouncy, Elastical, Elastically). (various references)

Czech

elastický (flexible, resilient, yielding), pružný (flexible, lissome, lithe, lithesome, pliable, resilient, rubbery, springy, supple, yielding), prádlová guma, ohebný (amenable, flexible, floppy, limber, limp, malleable, pliable, pliant, supple, yielding), gumièka (elastic band, rubber band). (various references)

Danish

elastisk (resilient). (various references)

Dutch

elastisch (resilient), rekbaar (ductile, resilient), veerkrachtig (resilient), soepel (flexible, supple). (various references)

Esperanto

elasta. (various references)

Faeroese

stældur, smidligur, gyrðin. (various references)

Farsi 

فنری (Bouncy, Springy), کشسان , کشدار, قابل ارتجاع (Springy), سبک روح . (various references)

Finnish

joustonauha. (various references)

French

élastique (elastic sides). (various references)

Frisian

elastysk. (various references)

German

elastisch (bouncy, buoyant, elastical, elastically, elasticly, flexible, resilient, resiliently, shirred, springily, springy, stretchy, supple), federnd (bouncy, buoyant, resilient, springily, springy, sprung), dehnbar (dilatable, distensible, ductile, expansive, flexible, malleable, stretchy, tensile). (various references)

Greek 

ελαστικό. (various references)

Hebrew 

מתיח (expandible, extensible, prolongable), קמיז, קפיצי (springy, whippy), אלסטי, �'מיש (adaptable, flexible, plastic, pliable, pliant, svelte), � מתח (drawn, extended, flexible, stretched). (various references)

Hungarian

ruganyos (limber, lissom, lissome, lithe, lithesome, springy, supple, to walk with a swing), rugalmas (corky, flexible, limber, pliant, resilient, springy, stiff, whippy), gumizsinór. (various references)

Indonesian

endal (cram, resilient, springy, stuff), elastik, mulur (flexible), lemas, kenyal, gayal (tough of meat), anjal (bounce, rebound, resilent). (various references)

Italian

elastico (buoyant, resilient, rubber band, springy, stretchy, supple, whippy). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

伸縮自在 (expandable, flexible, telescoping), 嫋か (flexible, supple), エラスチック�"物 (elastic fabric). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

しなやか (flexible, supple), し�"しくじざい (expandable, flexible, telescoping), し�"しゅくじざい (expandable, flexible, telescoping), エラスティック . (various references)

Korean 

탄� � 있�" (Elastical). (various references)

Manx

so-sheeyney, so-lhoobey (bendable, flexible, hard and fast, yielding), so-chaghlaa. (various references)

Norwegian

elastisk, tøyelig. (various references)

Pig Latin

elasticay.(various references)

Portuguese

elástico (distension, elastic fabric, pliable, pliant, resilient, rubber band, springy, supple). (various references)

Romanian

elastic (buoyant, ductile, elastically, extensible, flexibile, rebounding, resilient, springy, supple, tensile, yielding), vesel (blithe, blithesome, boon, breezy, bright, cheerful, cheerfully, cheery, chirpy, convivial, crank, debonair, feastful, festal, frisky, frolic, frolicsome, full-blooded, gaily, gamesome, gay, genial, glad, gladsome, gleeful, happy, hilarious, in full feather, in high feather, jauntily, jaunty, jocund, jolly, jovial, joyful, joyfully, joyous, lively, mellow, merry, mirthful, playful, pleasant, riant, saucy, sprightly, tails up, wanton), suplu (flexible, flexile, graceful, light, lissom, lithe, slender, slim, supple, tractable, willowy, yielding), optimist (bright, buoyant, hopeful, optimist, optimistic, resilient, sanguine), gumã (caoutchouc, eraser, gum, resin, rosin, rubber). (various references)

Russian 

упругий (resilient, spring, springy, tough, whippy, yielding), эластичный (distensible, ductile, elasticated, non-rigid, rubber-band, spring, springy, stretchy), резинка (eraser, india rubber, rubber band), гибкий (ductile, flexible, limber, lissom, lissome, lithe, lithesome, pliable, pliant, reedy, supple, versatile, whippy, wiry). (various references)

Scottish

righinn (adhesive, flexible; dilatory, pliant, tough). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

elastičan (flexible, resilient, springy), savitljiv (flexible, limber, lissom, lissome, lithe, lithesome, malleable, pliable, pliant, supple, whippy, willowy, yielding), lastiš (rubber band), istegljiv (tensile). (various references)

Spanish

elástico (lithe, resilient, rubbery, springy, stretchy). (various references)

Swedish

elastisk (distensible, non-rigid, resilient, springy, stretchy), resår (coil spring, coilspring, spring). (various references)

Thai

ยางยื�", ซึ่งยื�"หยุ่น. (various references)

Turkish

esnek (flexible, flexile, limber, limp, lithe, loose-jointed, nonrigid, non-rigid, pliable, pliant, resilient, responsive, spring, springy, sprung, supple), elastik kumaş, elastik şey, elastik (flexible, resilient, responsive, supple), uyumlu (accommodating, canorous, coherent, compatible, concordant, conformable, congenial, congruent, congruous, consentient, consequent, consonant, deferent, deferential, eurhythmic, harmonic, harmonious, melodious, responsive, rhythmic, supple, symphonious, tuneful, unisonous, well-matched), lastikli (ambiguous, elasticated, equivocal, left handed), lastik bant (rubber band). (various references)

Ukranian 

гумка (eraser, rubber), гнучкий (applicant, ductile, flexible, flexile, limber, lissom, lissome, lithe, lithesome, pliable, pliant, supple, versatile), еластичний (flexible, non-rigid, resilient, rubbery, springy, stretchy), еластик. (various references)

Vietnamese 

dây chun, dây cao su, bốc đ�"ng lương tâm để tự tha thứ. (various references)

Welsh

hydwyth. (various references)

elastos. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "elastic": elastically, elasticities, elasticity, elasticized, elastics. (additional references)

Words ending with "elastic": aeroelastic, anelastic, inelastic, nonelastic, viscoelastic. (additional references)

Words containing "elastic": aeroelasticities, aeroelasticity, anelasticities, anelasticity, inelasticities, inelasticity, viscoelasticities, viscoelasticity. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Elastic" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Alastel, belostok, blastic, celastic, eastic, Eastick, ecastic, eclastic, elantosh, elasica, elastan, elastica, elastice, elasticy, Elazig, eleatic, electic, elfast, elistic, Elsanta, Elswich, exaltic, lastic, Listica. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: laciest, latices.

-1 letter: atelic, castle, cleats, eclats, saltie, stelai, stelic, ticals.

-2 letters: aisle, alecs, alist, caste, cates, ceils, celts, cesta, cesti, cites, clast, cleat, clits, eclat, ileac, islet, istle, laces, laics, least, litas, saice, salic, scale, setal, slate, slice, stale, steal, stela, stile, taces, taels, tails, talcs, tales, teals, telia, telic, tesla, tical, tiles.

-3 letters: aces, acts, ails, aits, alec, ales, alit, alts, asci, ates, case, cast, cate, cats, ceil, cels, celt, cist, cite, clit, east, eats, etas, etic, ices, ilea, isle, lace, lacs, laic, lase, last, late, lati, lats, leas, leis, lest, lets, lice, lies, list, lite, lits, sail, sale, salt, sate, sati, scat, seal, seat, sect, seta, sial, sice, silt, site, slat, slit, tace, tael, tail, talc, tale, tali, teal, teas, tela, tels, tics, ties, tile, tils.

-4 letters: ace, act, ail, ais, ait, ale, als, alt, ate, cat, cel, cis, eat, els, eta, ice, its, lac, las, lat, lea, lei, let, lie, lis, lit, sac, sae, sal, sat, sea, sec, sei, sel, set, sic, sit, tae, tas, tea, tel, tic, tie, til, tis.

-5 letters: ae, ai, al, as, at, el, es, et, is, it, la, li, si, ta, ti.

+1 letter: articles, calcites, ciliates, citadels, clayiest, clematis, climates, coaliest, dialects, elastics, ethicals, gestical, lattices, meticals, recitals, scaliest, septical, silicate, societal, sterical, tieclasp.

+2 letters: alchemist, analcites, anelastic, ascetical, athletics, biacetyls, calamites, califates, canticles, cartelise, catalexis, celestial, celibates, chalkiest, cisternal, clammiest, clarinets, clarities, classiest, coastline, crawliest, deistical, delicates, diacetyls, dislocate, eristical, facelifts, faculties, glaciates, hackliest, inelastic, italicise, lacertids, laitances, larcenist, latencies, leachiest, localites, locatives, loricates, maledicts, metallics, mislocate, oscillate, particles, realistic, scapolite, sceptical, sciential, sclerotia, sectional, sectorial, silicates, skeptical, socialite, specialty, tailraces, teocallis, tieclasps, timescale, verticals.

+3 letters: acclimates, acidulates, actionless, actualizes, alacrities, alchemists, alkahestic, allosteric, analeptics, analgetics, anthelices, anticlines, backlisted, blatancies, cabriolets, cacomistle, calamities, calibrates, caliphates, calmatives, cantilenas, capitalise, cartelised, cartelises, cartelizes, cartilages, casualties, catchflies, celestials, centesimal, centralise, centralism, centralist, chatelains, chelations, circulates, clavierist, cleanliest, clematises, clientages, coastlines, cobaltines, cobaltites, cockatiels, colligates, collimates, crackliest, crystalize, culminates, cultivates, curtailers, curtilages, decaliters, dialectics, dislocated, dislocates, duplicates, egoistical, elasticity, elucidates, epiblastic, escalating, escalation, explicates, facilities, fortalices, graticules, hysterical, idealistic, implicates, inculcates, inculpates, inoculates, inosculate, interclass, interlaces, italicised, italicises, italicizes, jesuitical, lacustrine, larcenists, laticifers, legalistic, lemniscate, lightfaces, linecaster, literacies, localities, lubricates, malachites, melanistic, melismatic, militances, mislocated, mislocates, neoplastic, nonelastic, oscillated, oscillates, plasticene, plasticine, plasticize, pleonastic, recitalist, replicates, revictuals, salacities, salicylate, scapolites, sclerotial, scrawliest, sectionals, secularist, secularity, semantical, septicidal, socialites, societally, specialest, specialist, speciality, stalactite, sterically, subdialect, supplicate, switchable, tailpieces, technicals, testicular, theistical, thylacines, timescales, triticales, ultimacies, vacillates, vesiculate, victualers, vocalities, wyliecoats.

+4 letters: accidentals, acclimatise, acclivities, acetanilids, actinolites, actualities, aeroelastic, aesthetical, alchemistic, aliteracies, altarpieces, apicultures, apologetics, articulates, ascetically, aseptically, atelectasis, atheistical, athleticism, avicultures, bimetallics, birthplaces, bisectional, blacklisted, blacklister, blastematic, cacomistles, calisthenic, callosities, calumniates, candlestick, cantilevers, cantillates, capitalised, capitalises, capitalizes, capitulates, captionless, carnalities, carnallites, cartelising, cartularies, catabolites, catabolizes, catalectics, catalepsies, cataleptics, cataplexies, catechismal, causalities, causatively, celestially, centennials, centralised, centralises, centralisms, centralists, centralizes, chalcocites, chatelaines, chiralities, chlorinates, cholestasis, cholestatic, citronellas, clandestine, clarinetist, clavierists, cleistogamy, clericalist, clofibrates, coevalities, colatitudes, colemanites, compatibles, complicates, conciliates, consolidate, copulatives, credentials, crystalized, crystalizes, crystalline, crystallise, crystallite, crystallize, curtainless, deistically, dilatancies, ectoplasmic, egotistical, elastically, elasticized, elastomeric, electuaries, ellipticals, elucidators, eristically, escalations, esemplastic, ethicalness, explicators, exultancies, facetiously, facilitates, fasciculate, feldspathic, felicitates, feudalistic, galactoside, gesticulant, gesticulate, glauconites, gracilities, hemiacetals, incalescent, incessantly, incidentals, injectables, inosculated, inosculates, inscrutable, intercensal, intercostal, justiciable, lacerations, lactiferous, lecithinase, lemniscates, licentiates, linecasters, linecasting, loquacities, mentalistic, meroblastic, metaplastic, militancies, misallocate, novaculites, nucleations, obstetrical, paclitaxels, participles, patchoulies, peculations, pediculates, peristaltic, petulancies, placidities, plasticenes, plasticines, plasticized, plasticizer, plasticizes, pratincoles, rascalities, recitalists, relocations, replicators, reticulates, rickettsial, salicylates, scatologies, schmaltzier, schmalziest, scintillate, scrabbliest, scraggliest, searchlight, secretarial, sectionally, secularists, simulcasted, skeptically, socialities, spaceflight, specialists, specialties, specularity, speculating, speculation, speculative, spirochetal, stalactites, stickhandle, stickleback, straitlaced, strategical, subdialects, subliteracy, supplicated, supplicates, switchblade, syllabicate, symmetrical, tactilities, telecasting, tenaciously, thalassemic, theatricals, triplicates, typicalness, ulcerations, ultrafiches, unclarities, unrealistic, verbalistic, vesiculated, vesiculates, victuallers, vorticellas, vulcanisate, wildcatters.

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