| Back | tensile \TEN-suhl\ |
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| Front | adjective 1. Capable of being stretched or drawn out; ductile. 2. Of or pertaining to tension: tensile strain. Claire's tensile features pull themselves tight with glee. - Zadie Smith, On Beauty One way of increasing the tensile strength in a wooden bow at any time of the year was to apply a sinew backing. - Louis Bird, Jennifer S. H. Brown, Anne Lindsay, Telling Our Stories |
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