Adjective

(en adjective)

Of or relating to industry, notably manufacturing.

*{{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-29, volume=407, issue=8842, page=29, magazine=(The Economist)

, title= Unspontaneous combustion , passage=Since the mid-1980s, when Indonesia first began to clear its bountiful forests on an industrial scale in favour of lucrative palm-oil plantations, “haze” has become an almost annual occurrence in South-East Asia. The cheapest way to clear logged woodland is to burn it, producing an acrid cloud of foul white smoke that, carried by the wind, can cover hundreds, or even thousands, of square miles.}}

Produced by such industry.

Used by such industry.

* {{quote-book, year=2006, author=(Edwin Black)

, title=Internal Combustion, chapter=2 citation , passage=More than a mere source of Promethean sustenance to thwart the cold and cook one's meat, wood was quite simply mankind's first industrial and manufacturing fuel.}}

Suitable for use in such industry; industrial-grade.

Massive in scale or quantity.

Employed as manpower by such industry.

(of a society or country) Having many industries; industrialized.

*{{quote-magazine, date=2013-07-20, volume=408, issue=8845, magazine=(The Economist)

, title= Old soldiers? , passage=Whether modern, industrial man is less or more warlike than his hunter-gatherer ancestors is impossible to determine. The machine gun is so much more lethal than the bow and arrow that comparisons are meaningless.}}

(music) Belonging or pertaining to the genre of industrial music.

Adjective

(en adjective)

Capable of being moulded; malleable, flexible, pliant.

* 1749 , (Henry Fielding), , 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.

* 1898 , Journal of Microscopy (page 256)

Plastic mud, brownish tinted, rich in floatings.

* 2012 , Adam Zeman, ‘Only Connect’, Literary Review , issue 399:

while the broad pattern of connections between brain regions is similar in every healthy human brain, their details – their number, size and strength – are thought to underpin our individuality, as synapses are ‘plastic ’, shaped by experience.

(dated) Creative, formative.

* Prior

the plastic hand of the Creator

* Alexander Pope

See plastic Nature working to his end.

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

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

Made of plastic.

* {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham)

, title=(The China Governess) , chapter=Foreword citation , passage=A canister of flour from the kitchen had been thrown at the looking-glass and lay like trampled snow over the remains of a decent blue suit with the lining ripped out which lay on top of the ruin of a plastic wardrobe.}}

Inferior or not the real thing; ersatz.

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* {{quote-book, title=The pirate's dilemma: how youth culture is reinventing capitalism

, page=, author=Matt James Mason, year=2008, passage=Frustrated by a globalized music industry force-feeding them plastic pop music, hackers, remixers, and activists began to mobilize...}}

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

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