plastic
noun /ˈplæstɪk/
/ˈplæstɪk/
- The pipes should be made of plastic.
- a sheet of clear plastic
- the plastic industry
- recycled plastic
- chairs made from plastic
- dashboards moulded in plastic
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- heavy-duty
- reinforced
- strong
- …
- make
- produce
- recycle
- …
- plastics[uncountable] the science of making plastics
- [uncountable] (informal) a way of talking about credit cards
- Do they take plastic?
Word Originmid 17th cent. (in the sense ‘characteristic of moulding’): from French plastique or Latin plasticus, from Greek plastikos, from plassein ‘to mould’.