plastician
/plæsˈtɪʃən/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
14
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
3
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Someone or something that transforms or reshapes objects.
noun
An artist involved with the plastic arts.
Example Sentences
- "Quite apart from the question of finance and the basic difficulty of finding the very large sums for completely refacing buildings, the writer personally comes down solidly on the side of the "plastician" rather than the "face-lifter"."
- "Today, I manipulate the sonic object as a sound plastician, and find myself confronted by the expression of a gesture which I cannot share except through the trace it leaves behind: the labelled object—that is, the sound recording."
- "Whatever in Nature is formed and shaped — be it the form of the plant persisting for a comparatively short time, or the eternally changing configuration of the animal body — carbon is everywhere the great plastician."
- "This interpretation has provided the basis for a descriptive, 'plastician' approach that draws on pragmatism and aesthetics by combining experimental botany, developmental biology and biophysics of morphogenesis (Pouteau, 2011; unpublished data)."
- "Tho first plastician was not a scientist, but with the gront demands of modern civilization the plastician today is attempting to systematize and simplify his job"
- "The general problem of analyzing stresses and strains during even simple forming operations is still beyond the range of the theoretical plastician."
Etymology
From plastics + -ician.