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      "\u026a\u02c8l\u00e6st\u026ak"
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      "From French \u00e9lastique, from New Latin elasticus (\u201celastic\u201d), from Ancient Greek \u1f10\u03bb\u03b1\u03c3\u03c4\u03cc\u03c2 (elast\u00f3s), alternative form of \u1f10\u03bb\u03b1\u03c4\u03cc\u03c2 (elat\u00f3s, \u201cductile\u201d) (cf. \u1f10\u03bb\u03b1\u03c4\u03ae\u03c1 (elat\u1e17r, \u201ca driver, hurler\u201d)), from \u1f10\u03bb\u03b1\u03cd\u03bd\u03c9 (ela\u00fan\u014d, \u201cto drive, set in motion, push, strike, beat out\u201d)."
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            "mean": "Capable of stretching; particularly, capable of stretching so as to return to an original shape or size when force is released.\n1820,  Encyclopaedia Britannica; Or A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and Miscellaneous Literature\u200e, 6th edition, volume 20, Edinburgh: Archibald Constable and Company, page 501:In trumpets for assisting the hearing, all reverbation of the trumpet must be avoided. It must be made thick, of the least elastic materials, and covered with cloth externally. For all reverbation lasts for a short time, and produces new sounds which mix with those which are coming in.\nThe rope is somewhat elastic, so expect it to give when you pull on it."
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            "mean": "Made of elastic.\nelastic band"
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            "mean": "Of clothing, elasticated."
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            "mean": "(economics) Sensitive to changes in price.\nDemand for entertainment is more elastic than demand for energy."
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            "mean": "springy; bouncy; vivacious\n1900,  Charles W. Chesnutt,  chapter I, in  The House Behind the Cedars:He could see that she was tastefully, though not richly, dressed, and that she walked with an elastic step that revealed a light heart and the vigor of perfect health. Her face, of course, he could not analyze, since he had caught only the one brief but convincing glimpse of it."
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            "mean": "Pervasive, all-encompassing.\n1834,  L E L,  chapter X, in  Francesca Carrara.\u00a0, volume III, London: Richard Bentley,\u00a0, (successor to Henry Colburn), \u2192OCLC, page 74:It was now about six o'clock, and that first freshness was on the air, which is to the day what youth is to life,\u2014so light, so elastic, so sweet, and so brief:..."
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            "mean": "Able to return quickly to a former state or condition, after being depressed or overtaxed; having power to recover easily from shocks and trials.\nelastic spirits; an elastic constitution"
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            "mean": "(uncountable) An elastic material used in clothing, particularly in waistbands and cuffs.\nrunning shorts use elastic to eliminate the need for a belt"
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            "mean": "(countable) An elastic band."
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            "mean": "\u201celastic\u201d, inWebster\u2019s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass. G.  C. Merriam, 1913, \u2192OCLC.\n\u201celastic\u201d, inThe Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y. The Century Co., 1911, \u2192OCLC.\nelastic at OneLook Dictionary Search"
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