plastic
塑胶,塑料,塑胶制品,塑胶类
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- : Often plastics. any of a group of synthetic or natural organic materials that may be shaped when soft and then hardened, including many types of resins, resinoids, polymers, cellulose derivatives, casein materials, and proteins: used in place of other materials, as glass, wood, and metals, in construction and decoration, for making many articles, as coatings, and, drawn into filaments, for weaving. They are often known by trademark names, as Bakelite, Vinylite, or Lucite.
- : a credit card, or credit cards collectively, usually made of plastic: He had a whole pocketful of plastic.
- : money, payment, or credit represented by the use of a credit card or cards.
- : something, or a group of things, made of or resembling plastic: The entire meal was served on plastic.
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- : made of plastic.
- : capable of being molded or of receiving form: clay and other plastic substances.
- : produced by molding: plastic figures.
- : having the power of molding or shaping formless or yielding material: the plastic forces of nature.
- : being able to create, especially within an art form; having the power to give form or formal expression: the plastic imagination of great poets and composers.
- : Fine Arts. concerned with or pertaining to molding or modeling; sculptural.relating to three-dimensional form or space, especially on a two-dimensional surface.pertaining to the tools or techniques of drawing, painting, or sculpture: the plastic means.characterized by an emphasis on formal structure: plastic requirements of a picture.
- : pliable; impressionable: the plastic mind of youth.
- : giving the impression of being made of or furnished with plastic: We stayed at one of those plastic motels.
- : artificial or insincere; synthetic; phony: jeans made of cotton, not some plastic substitute; a plastic smile.
- : lacking in depth, individuality, or permanence; superficial, dehumanized, or mass-produced: a plastic society interested only in material acquisition.
- : of or relating to the use of credit cards: plastic credit; plastic money.
- : Biology, Pathology. formative.
- : Surgery. concerned with or pertaining to the remedying or restoring of malformed, injured, or lost parts: a plastic operation.
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In the early 2000s, a wave of sock manufacturers closed, followed by food-processing plants, plastics plants, automotive plants, and lightbulb factories.
Also, in plastics, you know — quite often plastics are very hard to recycle because in just one little whatever cup, they use three different plastics, which actually cannot be taken apart in the recycling circle.
The results from a week’s worth of testing showed above-average levels of chemical compounds that come from burning petroleum-based products like oil, fuel or plastics.
Also, please don’t dispose of your recyclables in plastic garbage bags.
This tent of plastic sheeting covers a patient’s head and shoulders.
He was also a charismatic, telegenic speaker with a face improved by plastic surgery several years earlier.
The taste of metal cutlery after years of plastic can also taste funny.
Cover with plastic wrap and allow the dates to soften, about 15 minutes.
Internet chatter rose to a deafening roar as speculation began about what—plastic surgery?
His chin rested on the thick plastic collar buckled around his neck.
To begin with, the bar was of pinkish sandstone, smoothed and covered by a coating of plastic.
For these, plastic natures have been substituted, but still without anything being gained.
Chrome dinettes and plastic furniture are manufactured in plants located at Marion.
The sheets of rubber from which the uppers and soles are cut are at this stage of the work plastic and very sticky.
Art has flourished in Virginia from the handicraft of the early days to the plastic sculpturing of the present.