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# malleable

«malleable» in Mova's school dictionary: **Able to be hammered, pressed or bent into a new shape…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

adjective (malleable, more malleable, most malleable)

### meaning for a pupil

1) (science) Able to be hammered, pressed or bent into a new shape without breaking, like gold, copper or clay. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/malleable/#m1)

2) Easily changed or influenced by other people: «young minds are malleable». [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/malleable/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In science lessons on materials, «malleable» is a key property of metals: you can beat them into thin sheets (like aluminium foil or gold leaf). Non-metals are often brittle instead. In everyday talk, a malleable person is easy to persuade. Related science words: «ductile» (can be pulled into wires), «brittle» (breaks easily).

### examples

- Gold is so malleable it can be hammered thinner than paper. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/malleable/#x1)
- Metals are malleable, but glass is brittle. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/malleable/#x2)
- Clay is malleable when it is wet. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/malleable/#x3)
- Aluminium foil shows that aluminium is malleable. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/malleable/#x4)
- A blacksmith heats iron to make it more malleable. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/malleable/#x5)
- Plasticine is malleable, so you can shape it easily. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/malleable/#x6)
- Young children's ideas can be quite malleable. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/malleable/#x7)
- We tested which materials were malleable by gently hitting them with a hammer. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/malleable/#x8)

### note

Adjective; noun «malleability». Spelling: double l, «-able»: malleable. Opposite in science: brittle. Do not confuse with «mallet» (a hammer) – though both come from the same Latin word for hammer. Not a maths word.

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «malleable» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/malleable/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.