- pronunciation:
- plae
stihk
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noun |
| definition: |
an artificial substance made from certain kinds of chemicals that can be shaped when soft.
Many toys are made out of plastic.
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Plastic comes from
plastikos, an ancient Greek word that means "able to be molded." This was its meaning for about three hundred years, until the development of materials called "plastics" in the early 1900s.
The word plastic
contains the following part:
plas, plast, plasm, -plasty
Greek
root
that means
mold, form; growth
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