elastic
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- noun
- /ɪˈlæstɪk/
- UK
- I secured the papers together with a small elastic band.
- hair elastic
- secure with an elastic
- slip the elastic
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Watch on YouTubeAgain, obviously it has sleeves and then it has elastic here that's going around your waist.
- Again, obviously it has sleeves and then it has elastic here that's going around your waist.
- It's almost a joke it's so bizarre. The elastic on the top is not only so thin
- I took my jeans and I cut little VS and I put elastic in the sides.
- And then I'm going to secure it with a little elastic.
- And this whole section right here is a it's elastic, I guess so, but the band is hella thick.
- Wrap it around and then secure with an elastic.
- Some more little hair elastics AI think this is like a clip to wear in your hair.
- So I I put in elastics, I put in light weights and start to do like crazy.
- And then I just take a little clear elastic, maybe a bubby pin just to extra secure it.
- So yeah, I've been trying to keep a habit of just trying to use silk scrunchies as much as I can rather than elastics.
- So I use these plastic scrunchy elastics so that like when they get wet, it doesn't matter because they're plastic.
Examples
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I took my jeans and I cut little VS and I put elastic in the sides.
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Most of this day she has spent making jewelry: designing color schemes, threading plastic beads onto elastic, then knotting the elastic.
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It's almost a joke it's so bizarre. The elastic on the top is not only so thin
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All right, so I just sewed my little pocket and now it is time to put the elastic in here.
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Even my panties have the elastic covered with fabric.
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Some more little hair elastics AI think this is like a clip to wear in your hair.
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Secure with an elastic.
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Again, obviously it has sleeves and then it has elastic here that's going around your waist.
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The taking a small elastic, you're just going to apply this at the bottom and that's going to keep the braid in place.
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She handed Elaine a braided elastic loop, and Elaine twisted it around Morgan's long black hair, making a ponytail down the back.
Fiction book (1994)
Synonyms
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1.1
A thin loop of stretchy rubber that holds things together
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1.0
A thin loop of stretchy rubber that holds things together
Compounds
- Specialized
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4.6
Tissue made of stretchy fibers that helps skin and blood vessels return to shape
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4.4
Energy stored in an object when it is stretched or squeezed like a spring
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2.6
A long, stretchy cloth that wraps and supports an injured joint to reduce swelling
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5.6
People change how much they buy of something a lot when its price goes up or down
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4.8
Stored power in something when it is stretched or squashed, like a spring
- Specialized
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7.3
A number that shows how stiff a material is when you push or pull it
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8.0
A market where sellers sell only at one price and refuse lower prices
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A natural stretchy material from tree sap used to make rubber things like tires or tubing
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When buyers buy only at one price, sales drop to zero if price rises and are unlimited if it falls
Surface Forms
Etymology
Elastic comes from the Greek root elast- meaning 'to stretch'. A small elastic, like a rubber band, is a narrow band that stretches to hold things together and then returns to its shape.