Definizione monolingua

plastic

plastic (uncountable)

1. (obsolete) A sculptor, moulder.
2. (archaic) Any solid but malleable substance.
3. A synthetic, thermoplastic, solid, hydrocarbon-based polymer.
4. Any similar synthetic material, not necessarily thermoplastic.
5. (colloquial) credit or debit cards used in place of cash to buy goods and services.
   • 2008, Lily Allen, The Fear:

     But it doesnt matter cause Im packing plastic.

6. (slang) Fakeness, or a person who is fake or arrogant, or believes that they are better than the rest of the population.
   • 2004, Rosalind Wiseman, Tina Fey, Mean Girls:

     Cady: You know I couldnt invite you. I had to pretend to be plastic.
     Janis: Hey, buddy, youre not pretending anymore. Youre plastic. Cold, shiny, hard plastic.

   • 2011, Emily Kapnek, Suburgatory:

     Tessa: Pretty ironic that a box full of rubbers landed me to a town full of plastic.

plastic (comparative more plastic, superlative most plastic)

1. Capable of being moulded; malleable, flexible, pliant.
   • 1749, Henry Fielding, Tom Jones, Folio Society 1973, p. 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.

2. Of or pertaining to the inelastic, non-brittle, deformation of a material.
3. (dated) Creative, formative.
4. (biology) Capable of adapting to varying conditions; characterized by environmental adaptability.
5. (medicine, now rare) Producing tissue.
6. Constructed of polymer.
7. Inferior or not the real thing; ersatz.
   • 1969, Lowell D. Streiker, The gospel of irreligious religion, page 83:

     The Hippie has been replaced by the pseudo-Hippie, the plastic Hippie, the weekend Hippie

   • 2007, Daniel Sinker, We owe you nothing: Punk Planet: the collected interviews, page 238:

     People always try to say that were garage rock, but that scene is so plastic. Some dude in a band has tight jeans, dyed black hair, and a starving girlfriend with bangs, and people call it indie rock. Its so gross.

   • 2008, Matt James Mason, The pirates dilemma: how youth culture is reinventing capitalism:

     Frustrated by a globalized music industry force-feeding them plastic pop music, hackers, remixers, and activists began to mobilize...

8. (slang) Fake, snobbish. Usually refers to a person.
   • 1966, Calvin C. Hernton, White papers for white Americans?, page 67:

     He kissed the white woman once, and it was so artificial, so plastic (thats the word, plastic) that one wondered why did they bother at all.

   • 1973, Eric Berne, What do you say after you say hello?, page 120:

     In fact it seems as though there are two kinds of people in the world: real people and plastic people, as the Flower Children used to say.

   • 2004, Rosalind Wiseman, Tina Fey, Mean Girls:

     Janis: See? Thats the thing with you plastics. You think everybody is in love with you when actually, everybody HATES you!

   • 2006, Catherine Coulter, Born to Be Wild?, page 71:

     But I dont think she would be happy in Los Angeles — its so plastic and cheap and they expect the women to be whores to get anywhere.

Definizione dizionario plastic

	plastica
	a stiff but usually slightly flexible synthetic material
	Materiale polimerico (usualmente organico) di grande peso molecolare che può essere ottenuto in [corrente??[di vapore?]]; solitamente si riferisce al prodotto finale inclusi fillers, plastificanti, pigmenti e stabilizzatori (al contrario della resina, il materiale polimerico omogeneo di partenza); esempi di plastica sono il PVC, il polietilene e urea-formaldeide.
	A polymeric material (usually organic) of large molecular weight which can be shaped by flow; usually refers to the final product with fillers, plasticizers, pigments, and stabilizers included (versus the resin, the homogeneous polymeric starting material); examples are polyvinyl chloride, polyethylene, and urea-formaldehyde.

	plastico
	Of or pertaining to the inelastic, non-brittle, deformation of a material
	Constructed of plastic
	Capable of being molded or modeled.

	malleabile
	Capable of adapting to varying conditions

materia plastica

materie plastiche

Altri significati:

(dated) Creative, formative.

(archaic) Any solid but malleable substance.

Inferior or not the real thing; ersatz.

(medicine, now rare) Producing tissue.

(biology) Capable of adapting to varying conditions; characterized by environmental adaptability.

(slang) Fake, snobbish. Usually refers to a person.

Constructed of polymer.

any similar synthetic material

(obsolete) A sculptor, moulder.

(slang) A person who is fake or arrogant, or believes that they are better than the rest of the population.

Of or pertaining to the inelastic, non-brittle, deformation of a material.

A synthetic, thermoplastic, solid, hydrocarbon-based polymer.

Any similar synthetic material, not necessarily thermoplastic.

credit cards or debit cards

(colloquial) credit or debit cards used in place of cash to buy goods and services.

Capable of being moulded; malleable, flexible, pliant.