Difference between Malleable and Pliant

MALLEABLE vs PLIANT: ADJECTIVE

Capable of being shaped or bent or drawn out
Capable of being shaped or formed, as by hammering or pressure.
Easily controlled or influenced.
Able to adjust to changing circumstances; adaptable.
Capable of being changed or adjusted to meet particular or varied needs.
Capable of being extended or shaped by beating with a hammer, or by the pressure of rollers; -- applied to metals.
Capable of being influenced to behave as desired; tractable; -- used mostly of children.
Iron that is capable of extension or of being shaped under the hammer; decarbonized cast iron. See under Iron.
Articles cast from pig iron and made malleable by heating then for several days in the presence of some substance, as hematite, which deprives the cast iron of some of its carbon.
Able to be hammered into thin sheets; capable of being extended or shaped by beating with a hammer, or by the pressure of rollers.
Flexible, liable to change.
Easily influenced
In which an adversary can alter a ciphertext such that it decrypts to a related plaintext

Capable of being influenced or formed
Capable of being bent or flexed or twisted without breaking
Capable of being shaped or bent or drawn out
Able to adjust readily to different conditions
Easily bent or flexed; pliable. : malleable.
Easily altered or modified to fit conditions; adaptable.
Yielding readily to influence or domination; compliant.
Capable of plying or bending; readily yielding to force or pressure without breaking; flexible; pliable; lithe; limber; plastic. Also used figuratively: Easily influenced for good or evil; tractable.
Favorable to pliancy.
Easily influenced for good or evil; tractable; as, a pliant heart.

Capable of being shaped or extended by beating or rolling; capable of extension by hammering; reducible to a laminated form by beating, as gold, which may be beaten into leaves (gold-foil) of extreme thinness; hence, capable of being shaped by outside influence; yielding. See foil.

Easily bent or inclined to any particular course; readily influenced for good or evil; easy to be persuaded; yielding.
Capable of being easily bent; flexible; supple; limber; lithe: as, a pliant twig.

Brittle, Bendable, Rigid, Manipulable, Workable, Bendy, Soft, Amorphous, Tractile, Tensile, Tractable, Ductile, Elastic, Pliant, Pliable

Yielding, Lithe, Accommodating, Tractile, Flexile, Tensile, Plastic, Impressionable, Ductile, Bendable, Flexible, Elastic, Adaptable, Malleable, Pliable

Brittle, Bendable, Rigid, Manipulable, Workable, Bendy, Soft, Amorphous, Tractile, Tensile, Tractable, Ductile, Elastic, Pliant, Pliable

Yielding, Lithe, Accommodating, Tractile, Flexile, Tensile, Plastic, Impressionable, Ductile, Bendable, Flexible, Elastic, Adaptable, Malleable, Pliable

Gold, silver, aluminum, iron, and copper are malleable.
It is fairly soft, malleable, lustrous, silvery metal.
It is essentially a global, malleable data schema.
"The concept of nations has always been malleable.".
Research, however, has established that emotions are malleable.
Memory is malleable and highly prone to error.
Only steel or malleable iron material are acceptable.
Metals are shiny, malleable materials that conduct ____________________________.
Because they see citizenship as negotiable and malleable.
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