plastics
SayPLAS-tiks/ˈplæstɪks/
- 1Plural of plastic. Use this when you mean more than one kind of plastic.
Modern packaging combines several different plastics to keep food fresh.
Many plastics can be melted down and made into new products.
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- 2The job and field of plastic surgery, where doctors repair or reshape the body.
She decided to specialize in plastics after finishing her training.
He went into plastics because he loved the careful, detailed work.
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plastics is a form of plastic
plastic, noun: A light, man-made material that can be molded into bottles, toys, and many other everyday things. Full entry
- Forms
- plasticplastics plural
- Spelling
- plastic → plastics: add -s
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /s/.
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