Ductile vs Hollow - What's the difference?
ductile | hollow |
Capable of being pulled or stretched into thin wire by mechanical force without breaking.
Molded easily into a new form.
(rare) Led easily; prone to follow.
(of something solid) Having an empty space or cavity inside.
(of a sound) Distant]], eerie; echoing, [[reverberate, reverberating, as if in a hollow space; dull, muffled; often low-pitched.
(figuratively) Without substance; having no real or significant worth; meaningless.
(figuratively) Insincere, devoid of validity; specious.
Depressed; concave; gaunt; sunken.
* Shakespeare
(colloquial) Completely, as part of the phrase beat hollow or beat all hollow.
A small valley between mountains; a low spot surrounded by elevations.
* Prior
* Tennyson
A sunken area or unfilled space in something solid; a cavity, natural or artificial.
(US) A sunken area.
(figuratively) A feeling of emptiness.
To urge or call by shouting; to hollo.
* Sir Walter Scott
As adjectives the difference between ductile and hollow
is that ductile is capable of being pulled or stretched into thin wire by mechanical force without breaking while hollow is (of something solid) having an empty space or cavity inside.As an adverb hollow is
(colloquial) completely, as part of the phrase beat hollow or beat all hollow.As a noun hollow is
a small valley between mountains; a low spot surrounded by elevations.As a verb hollow is
to make a hole in something; to excavate (transitive) or hollow can be to urge or call by shouting; to hollo.As an interjection hollow is
.ductile
English
Adjective
(en adjective)Synonyms
* (molded easily) flexible, plastic, pliant; see also * (led easily) tractableAntonyms
* (capable of being pulled into thin wire) brittleCoordinate terms
* malleableSee also
* elastic ----hollow
English
Alternative forms
* hollerEtymology 1
(etyl) holw, holh, from (etyl) . More at cave.Adjective
(er)- a hollow''' tree; a '''hollow sphere
- a hollow moan
- (Dryden)
- a hollow victory
- a hollow promise
- With hollow eye and wrinkled brow.
Derived terms
* hollow legAdverb
(-)Etymology 2
(etyl) holow, earlier holgh, from (etyl) . See above.Noun
(en noun)- Forests grew upon the barren hollows .
- I hate the dreadful hollow behind the little wood.
- He built himself a cabin in a hollow high up in the Rockies.
- the hollow of the hand or of a tree
- a hollow in the pit of one's stomach
Etymology 3
Compare holler.Verb
(en verb)- He has hollowed the hounds.