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MONDAY, FEBRUARY 24

Ductile

[DUCK-tl]Part of speech: adjective

Origin: latin, 14th century

• (of a metal) able to be drawn out into a thin wire.
• Able to be deformed without losing toughness; pliable, not brittle.

Examples of Ductile in a sentence

• Copper is quite ductile, which makes it perfect for both electrical work and jewelry.
• The drafty window sill needs to be repaired with a ductile material to stand up to the winter winds.

About Ductile

Ductile can be used in a few different situations. There’s the easily coerced, or ductile, person. Then any sort of pliable material that can be molded can be called ductile. But if you’re a scientist, you’re most likely describing a metal that can be pulled into a thin wire as ductile.

Did you Know?

The adjective ductile comes from the Latin root “ductilis,” which means easily led. This makes sense if you’re talking about a person being ductile, or easily convinced. The word duke shares the same root. A duke might not be swayed, but he perhaps hopes that his subjects are nice and ductile.

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Illya Kuryakin woke to find himself in a somewhat familiar situation. He was hanging by his wrists from an overhead beam, his feet unable to reach the floor. THRUSH seemed to have it in for him, where Napoleon always seemed to be thrown in water, Illya seemed to always get strung up by his wrists.

Grasping the handcuffs he was able to use his gymnastic training and lift his legs until he had them wrapped around the beam. He managed to get the wire he had twisted around one of his molars pried off using his tongue. He was able to grasp the thin ductile wire and straighten it out to use as a lock pick and open the cuffs.

Illya dropped to the floor and finished his escape. One more escape adding to his reputation.