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malleable

adj
/ˈmæl.iː.ə.bəl//ˈmaɫiəbəɫ/UK/ˈmæɫiəbɫ̩/US

Etymology

From Middle French malléable, borrowed from Late Latin malleābilis, derived from Latin malleāre (“to hammer”), from malleus (“hammer”), from Proto-Indo-European *mal-ni- (“crushing”), an extended variant of *melh₂- (“crush, grind”).

  1. derived from *mal-ni-✻
  2. derived from malleāre
  3. derived from malleābilis
  4. derived from malléable

Definitions

  1. Able to be hammered into thin sheets

    Able to be hammered into thin sheets; capable of being extended or shaped by beating with a hammer, or by the pressure of rollers.

  2. Flexible, liable to change.

    • My opinion on the subject is malleable.
    • The psychosocial factors in this study are malleable and provide target areas for enhancing mental health in those with high levels of autistic traits.
    • And all over Hollywood, suits are licking their chops at the prospect of more malleable actors. “She’s not going to talk back,” one top talent wrangler told me dryly.

  3. in which an adversary can alter a ciphertext such that it decrypts to a related plaintext

The neighborhood

Derived

immalleable, malleable iron, malleableization, malleableize, malleablize, nonmalleable, semimalleable, unmalleable

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at malleable. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at malleable. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

9 hops · closes at malleable

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA