plastic

CEFRA2

/ˈplæstɪk/

noun · adjective

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Sits at A2 on the CEFR scale

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Credit or debit cards used in place of cash to buy goods and services.
Insincerity; fakeness; a person who is fake or arrogant, or believes that they are better than the rest of the population; a narcissistic, affected person.
A synthetic, solid, hydrocarbon-based polymer, whether thermoplastic or thermosetting.

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The pipes should be made of plastic.
I knew the war between cash and credit cards was over and plastic had won, hands down, when even Mickey D's started taking credit and debit cards.
Reducing plastic waste is a crucial problem for today’s environment, and whether it’s recyclable and biodegradable phone cases or sustainable fashion, there are plenty of eco-friendly products that can help you reduce your footprint.

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Reducing plastic waste is a crucial problem for today’s environment, and whether it’s recyclable and biodegradable phone cases or sustainable fashion, there are plenty of eco-friendly products that can help you reduce your footprint.
2020 October 22, Kai Burkhardt, “31 eco-friendly products to live sustainably in 2024”, in CNN
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.
', Folio Society 1973, page 103
[A]nd it is highly probable that along with more splendid habits of life entered a more lavish use of the gorgeous stores laid open to the plastic powers of fiction.
1828, Thomas Keightley, The Fairy Mythology, volume I, London: William Harrison Ainsworth
Plastic mud, brownish tinted, rich in floatings.
1898, Journal of Microscopy, page 256
Man tracks and dog tracks, they left a clear imprint on its plastic surface, and came out on an open beach, stretching a mile away to another headland.
1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, 1st Australian edition, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1962, →OCLC, page 60

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From Latin plasticus (“of molding”), from Ancient Greek πλαστικός (plastikós), from πλάσσω (plássō, “to mold, form”). Doublet of plastique.