/ˈplæstɪk/
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Translation
A light, strong material made in factories, used for bottles, bags, and many everyday things.
Word origin
From Greek plastikos, meaning able to be shaped or moulded.
- Origin
- Greek
- Root
- plastikos
- English cognates
- plaster
Examples
.
"Made of plastic" tells you the material something is built from.
bin.
Here plastic works like an adjective before the noun bottles.
less .
Plastic is uncountable here, so we say less plastic, not fewer plastics.
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