Elastic is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for ELASTIC in dictionary:

NOUN:
• a stretchable material
• cord, tape, or fabric, woven with strips of rubber, which returns to its original length or shape after being stretched
• An elastic woven fabric, as a belt, braces or suspenders, etc., made in part of India rubber.
• a narrow band of elastic rubber used to hold things (such as papers) together
• a fabric made of yarns containing an elastic material
• tape or fabric containing interwoven strands of flexible rubber
ADJECTIVE:
• stretchy
• (of an object or material) able to resume its normal shape spontaneously after being stretched or compressed
• able to encompass much variety and change; flexible and adaptable
• (of demand or supply) sensitive to changes in price or income
• (of a collision) involving no decrease of kinetic energy.
• resuming normal shape after distortion
• Springing back; having a power or inherent property of returning to the form from which a substance is bent, drawn, pressed, or twisted; springy; having the power of rebounding; as, a bow is elastic; the air is elastic; India rubber is elastic.
• Able to return quickly to a former state or condition, after being depressed or overtaxed; having power to recover easily from shocks and trials; as, elastic spirits; an elastic constitution.
• capable of resuming original shape after stretching or compression; springy
• able to adjust readily to different conditions

Words related to ELASTIC

elastically16 elastics10 springy13

Words that contain ELASTIC

elastics10 gelastic11 agelastic12 anelastic11 inelastic11 elasticate12 elasticise12 elasticity15 elasticize21 nonelastic12 aeroelastic13 elastically16 elasticated14 elasticates13 elasticised14 elasticises13 elasticized23 elasticizes22 elasticness13 nonelastics13 anelasticity17 elasticating15 elastication14 elasticising15 elasticities14 elasticizing24 hydroelastic21 inelasticity17 photoelastic19 superelastic16 viscoelastic19 elastications15 elasticnesses15 inelastically18 nonelasticity18 aeroelastician16 aeroelasticity19 anelasticities16 inelasticities16 aeroelasticians17 photoelasticity25 viscoelasticity25 nonelasticities17 aeroelasticitie17 viscoelasticiti22 aeroelasticities18 viscoelasticities24

How to use ELASTIC in a sentence

• We should as soon expect the air in the bottom of a well to be elastic, as that the moral atmosphere shall be clear and salutary, without the breezes of excitement.
• But the country was elastic after all, and a great reaction set in.
• The Sioux, to make the straight piece of wood more elastic, string the backs with sinews.
• As she descended from the terrace, it was not with the same elastic step as she had come up half an hour before.
• As we passed upward, we saw where the rabbits had made their burrows in the elastic peat-like soil close to the very edge of the precipice.
• What all these users of the mysterious and elastic epithet lacked was a clear understanding and definition of Bolshevism.
• A trim, elastic figure, not unaccompanied, was descried walking down the shady lane.
• In fact when he can be moved we shall not wait here a day, for the rains have set in, and the dry elastic air of Florence will be excellent for him.
• What is Tin? A white metal, softer than any other excepting lead, more elastic, and more sonorous.
• That it may not hinder further progression, the form must remain elastic and sensitive to the most delicate modification of the vowel sound.
• Ordinary expiration is the result largely of the elastic recoil of the chest walls, only a few muscles taking part.
• His heated brow became cool and clear, his aching limbs vigorous and elastic, his jaded soul full of hope and joy.
• But the civilized man has spiritual wants and they are as elastic as air.
• It really did seem like flying, because the road surface was so like velvet stretched over elastic steel that eyesight alone told us we touched earth.
• The intensity of tones varies with the medium conveying them, being usually louder at night because the air is then more elastic.
• Readings will be continued until the elastic limit is well passed.
• Then, Mate, for real satisfaction, I must turn to you, whose patience is elastic and enduring.
• The term private affairs was very elastic, stretching often to cover even cool-blooded murder.
• He stepped to the side of the bear with a light elastic movement that was as unlike customary progression as his face and figure were unlike the ordinary types of humanity.
• For this purpose it is mounted on a block of wood by means of elastic band and leveled by the level on its lid, being at the same time set in the meridian of the place.
• Party propaganda is quite elastic enough to permit the two opposite views to be used to convince the same electorate at the same election.
• It has grown elastic and feels alive, and there is a smell in it to my mind of earth and vegetables.
• This world has been made elastic, ready to take new forms.

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