Plastic vs Picture - What's the difference?
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(obsolete) A sculptor, moulder.
(archaic) Any solid but malleable substance.
A synthetic, thermoplastic, solid, hydrocarbon-based polymer.
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(colloquial) Credit or debit cards used in place of cash to buy goods and services.
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(slang) Fakeness, or a person who is fake or arrogant, or believes that they are better than the rest of the population.
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Capable of being moulded; malleable, flexible, pliant.
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* 1898 , Journal of Microscopy (page 256)
* 2012 , Adam Zeman, ‘Only Connect’, Literary Review , issue 399:
(dated) Creative, formative.
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(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)
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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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A representation of anything (as a person, a landscape, a building) upon canvas, paper, or other surface, by drawing, painting, printing, photography, etc.
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*:Orion hit a rabbit once; but though sore wounded it got to the bury, and, struggling in, the arrow caught the side of the hole and was drawn out.. Ikey the blacksmith had forged us a spearhead after a sketch from a picture of a Greek warrior; and a rake-handle served as a shaft.
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, title= An image; a representation as in the imagination.
*(Samuel Taylor Coleridge) (1772-1834)
*:My eyes make pictures when they are shut.
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*:So this was my future home, I thought! Certainly it made a brave picture . I had seen similar ones fired-in on many a Heidelberg stein. Backed by towering hills,a sky of palest Gobelin flecked with fat, fleecy little clouds, it in truth looked a dear little city; the city of one's dreams.
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*:Prior to seeing him and meeting him, and hearing him speak, I had conjured up a picture' of him in my mind, which actual contact with him proved to be an illusion. I had conceived of him.
A painting.
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(label) A motion picture.
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("the pictures") Cinema (as a form of entertainment).
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A paragon, a perfect example or specimen (of a category).
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The art of painting; representation by painting.
*Sir (Henry Wotton) (1568-1639)
*:any well-expressed imageeither in picture or sculpture
A figure; a model.
*(James Howell) (c.1594–1666)
*:the young king's picture in virgin wax
To represent in or with a picture.
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To imagine or envision.
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To depict.
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As nouns the difference between plastic and picture
is that plastic is plastic while picture is a representation of anything (as a person, a landscape, a building) upon canvas, paper, or other surface, by drawing, painting, printing, photography, etc.As an adjective plastic
is plastic.As a verb picture is
to represent in or with a picture.plastic
English
Alternative forms
* plastick (archaic)Noun
(en noun)Welcome to the plastisphere, passage=Plastics' are energy-rich substances, which is why many of them burn so readily. Any organism that could unlock and use that energy would do well in the Anthropocene. Terrestrial bacteria and fungi which can manage this trick are already familiar to experts in the field. Dr Mincer and Dr Amaral-Zettler found evidence of them on their marine ' plastic , too.}}
Synonyms
* See alsoDerived terms
* bioplastic * plastic explosiveAdjective
(en adjective)- 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.
- Plastic mud, brownish tinted, rich in floatings.
- 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.
- the plastic hand of the Creator
- See plastic Nature working to his end.
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.}}
Synonyms
* malleable, flexible, pliant * ersatz * fakeAntonyms
* elastic * genuineDerived terms
* plastic beauty * plastician * plasticity * plasticizer * plasticine * plastic surgery * thermoplasticpicture
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Noun
(en noun)Pixels or Perish, passage=Drawings and pictures are more than mere ornaments in scientific discourse. Blackboard sketches, geological maps, diagrams of molecular structure, astronomical photographs, MRI images, the many varieties of statistical charts and graphs: These pictorial devices are indispensable tools for presenting evidence, for explaining a theory, for telling a story.}}
citation, passage=Here the stripped panelling was warmly gold and the pictures , mostly of the English school, were mellow and gentle in the afternoon light.}}
Synonyms
* (representation as in the imagination) imageDerived terms
* out of the picture * picture-perfect * picture postcard * (as) pretty as a picture * the big picture * picturesque * picture framingVerb
(pictur)- Picture yourself on a boat on a river / With tangerine trees and marmalade skies,