Malleable
adjective
A substance that can be shaped or bent easily without breaking or cracking.
Gold is a malleable metal, which is why it's used in jewelry making.
Often appears as...
- highly malleable
- malleable material
Usage tips
Technical
adjective
Someone who is easily influenced, controlled, or changed.
Children are often more malleable and can learn new languages faster than adults.
Often appears as...
- malleable mind
- malleable personality
adjective
A substance that can be shaped or bent easily without breaking or cracking.
Gold is a malleable metal, which is why it's used in jewelry making.
Often appears as...
- highly malleable
- malleable material
Usage tips
Technical
adjective
Someone who is easily influenced, controlled, or changed.
Children are often more malleable and can learn new languages faster than adults.
Often appears as...
- malleable mind
- malleable personality
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Pro Tip 1/3Heat Involvement
Malleable materials often require heat to shape, like metals in a forge.
The malleable iron was hammered into a horseshoe after heating.
Pro Tip 2/3Not Breakable
Remember, malleable materials bend; they don't snap or shatter when altered.
The malleable wire was twisted into various shapes without breaking.
Pro Tip 3/3Industry Usage
The term is common in industrial contexts, like manufacturing or metallurgy.
Engineers prefer malleable materials for parts that need to be custom-shaped.
Pro Tip 1/3Heat Involvement
Malleable materials often require heat to shape, like metals in a forge.
The malleable iron was hammered into a horseshoe after heating.
Pro Tip 2/3Not Breakable
Remember, malleable materials bend; they don't snap or shatter when altered.
The malleable wire was twisted into various shapes without breaking.
Pro Tip 3/3Industry Usage
The term is common in industrial contexts, like manufacturing or metallurgy.
Engineers prefer malleable materials for parts that need to be custom-shaped.
Pro Tip 1/3Heat Involvement
Malleable materials often require heat to shape, like metals in a forge.
The malleable iron was hammered into a horseshoe after heating.
Pro Tip 2/3Not Breakable
Remember, malleable materials bend; they don't snap or shatter when altered.
The malleable wire was twisted into various shapes without breaking.
Pro Tip 3/3Industry Usage
The term is common in industrial contexts, like manufacturing or metallurgy.
Engineers prefer malleable materials for parts that need to be custom-shaped.
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How does income affect...
and actually be able to test whether reducing poverty causes changes in children's cognitive, emotional and brain development in the first three years of life -- the very time when we believe the developing brain may be most malleable to experience.
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Does money make you...
rich people became just as generous of their own time to help out this other person, a stranger, as someone who's poor, suggesting that these differences are not innate or categorical, but are so malleable to slight changes in people's values,
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Ami Klin: A new way to...
Also, we have a window of opportunity, because the brain is malleable for just so long, and that window of opportunity happens in the first three years of life. It's not that that window closes; it doesn't. But it diminishes considerably.
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Bees Building Wax Nests...
couldn't hold liquid they will be filled to the brim for their contents are the reserves for times when there's little or no food to be found outside wax is certainly a superb building material malleable strong and capable of holding
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How young blood might...
And it also suggests that there is something not only in young mouse plasma, but in young human plasma that has the capacity to help this old brain. So to summarize, we find the old mouse, and its brain in particular, are malleable.
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New bionics let us run,...
that allowed me to return to the vertical world of rock and ice climbing. I quickly realized that the artificial part of my body is malleable; able to take on any form, any function -- a blank slate for which to create,
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Do personality tests...
like our school years, or when we start working. Though certain features of a person’s behavior may remain relatively stable over time, others are malleable, moulded by our upbringing, life experiences, and age.
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The new era of positive...
it's gone. And, as I said, it's not particularly malleable. And this leads to the second life. I have to tell you about my friend Len, to talk about why positive psychology is more than positive emotion,
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Disability does not...
about advancements in technology into my fiction so I actually in fact right now work on a show about brain science and I knew that early intervention and the brain is most malleable when in an
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Training an Aggressive...
actually help him to snap malleable there you go that's why I always say teach children no touch no talk no eye contact look at these dolls I'll actually following the rules
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How does income affect...
and actually be able to test whether reducing poverty causes changes in children's cognitive, emotional and brain development in the first three years of life -- the very time when we believe the developing brain may be most malleable to experience.
Video examples
Does money make you...
rich people became just as generous of their own time to help out this other person, a stranger, as someone who's poor, suggesting that these differences are not innate or categorical, but are so malleable to slight changes in people's values,
Video examples
Ami Klin: A new way to...
Also, we have a window of opportunity, because the brain is malleable for just so long, and that window of opportunity happens in the first three years of life. It's not that that window closes; it doesn't. But it diminishes considerably.
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Bees Building Wax Nests...
couldn't hold liquid they will be filled to the brim for their contents are the reserves for times when there's little or no food to be found outside wax is certainly a superb building material malleable strong and capable of holding
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How young blood might...
And it also suggests that there is something not only in young mouse plasma, but in young human plasma that has the capacity to help this old brain. So to summarize, we find the old mouse, and its brain in particular, are malleable.
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New bionics let us run,...
that allowed me to return to the vertical world of rock and ice climbing. I quickly realized that the artificial part of my body is malleable; able to take on any form, any function -- a blank slate for which to create,
Video examples
Do personality tests...
like our school years, or when we start working. Though certain features of a person’s behavior may remain relatively stable over time, others are malleable, moulded by our upbringing, life experiences, and age.
Video examples
The new era of positive...
it's gone. And, as I said, it's not particularly malleable. And this leads to the second life. I have to tell you about my friend Len, to talk about why positive psychology is more than positive emotion,
Video examples
Disability does not...
about advancements in technology into my fiction so I actually in fact right now work on a show about brain science and I knew that early intervention and the brain is most malleable when in an
Video examples
Training an Aggressive...
actually help him to snap malleable there you go that's why I always say teach children no touch no talk no eye contact look at these dolls I'll actually following the rules
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Lee Bermejo
American Artist
I think you have to be crazy not to want to work on the Joker! I can't think of many characters, heroes or villains, that are as malleable as him. He really can be interpreted in so many different ways, and generally, people don't really want to scratch the surface because you can get into some really dark territory real fast.
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Ekta Kapoor
Indian Producer
I am very reactive and malleable. I have to figure out when to be hands on and hands off. If I am hands on all the time, I can't do too much. But my attitude works in a certain way. So the idea is to spread your personality, your attitude.
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Leigh Whannell
Australian Director
The good thing with 'Insidious' and 'The Further' is that it's so nebulous, this supernatural world, that it allows you to bend things. There's a lot of room, it's very malleable, like how in the second film we had a lot of time travel.
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Carol S. Dweck
American Educator
What we found was that the greater proportion of process praise, the more likely the child was to have a mindset five years later that welcomed challenges and that represented traits as malleable, not a label you were stuck with.
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Stephen Kinzer
American Author
Castro has lived almost his entire life as a clandestine revolutionary. To such figures, truth is always malleable, always subservient to political goals.
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Grace Potter
American Musician
I think that identity and sort of the brand - I hate that word - the brand of the musician should be malleable. It should change, and it should grow.
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Kristen Stewart
American Actress
You should never step outside of your life and look at it like it's this malleable thing you can shape so that people view it a certain way.
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Emmanuelle Beart
French Actress
The body is an actor's tool, like the face, malleable. I never thought that being naked was immoral or outrageous.
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Max Minghella
English Actor
I'm very schizophrenic and malleable as a human being.
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Charles Duhigg
American Journalist
Habits are malleable throughout your entire life.
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Lee Bermejo
American Artist
I think you have to be crazy not to want to work on the Joker! I can't think of many characters, heroes or villains, that are as malleable as him. He really can be interpreted in so many different ways, and generally, people don't really want to scratch the surface because you can get into some really dark territory real fast.
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Ekta Kapoor
Indian Producer
I am very reactive and malleable. I have to figure out when to be hands on and hands off. If I am hands on all the time, I can't do too much. But my attitude works in a certain way. So the idea is to spread your personality, your attitude.
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Leigh Whannell
Australian Director
The good thing with 'Insidious' and 'The Further' is that it's so nebulous, this supernatural world, that it allows you to bend things. There's a lot of room, it's very malleable, like how in the second film we had a lot of time travel.
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Carol S. Dweck
American Educator
What we found was that the greater proportion of process praise, the more likely the child was to have a mindset five years later that welcomed challenges and that represented traits as malleable, not a label you were stuck with.
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Stephen Kinzer
American Author
Castro has lived almost his entire life as a clandestine revolutionary. To such figures, truth is always malleable, always subservient to political goals.
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Grace Potter
American Musician
I think that identity and sort of the brand - I hate that word - the brand of the musician should be malleable. It should change, and it should grow.
Quote examples
Kristen Stewart
American Actress
You should never step outside of your life and look at it like it's this malleable thing you can shape so that people view it a certain way.
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Emmanuelle Beart
French Actress
The body is an actor's tool, like the face, malleable. I never thought that being naked was immoral or outrageous.
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Max Minghella
English Actor
I'm very schizophrenic and malleable as a human being.
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Charles Duhigg
American Journalist
Habits are malleable throughout your entire life.
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