tensile: Dictionary.com Word of the Day

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	Word of the Day for Wednesday, February 20, 2013 tensile \TEN-suhl\, 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 This late Renaissance word tensile was derived in 1626 from the Latin verb tendere meaning "to stretch." Read the full entry | See synonyms | Comment on today's word | Suggest tomorrow's word Yesterday's word | Previous words | Help Words of the Day? How about words of timeless wisdom? Introducing our Quotes channel! "Life itself is a quotation." - Jorge Luis Borges Check out the Quote of the Day ›› Dictionary.com Word of the Day You are subscribed to the Word of the Day as: e-dict...@googlegroups.com Subscriber since: January 06, 2008 Unsubscribe from the Word of the Day To subscribe to the Word of the Day by email, please send a blank message to: join-wor...@lists.lexico.com ©2013 by Dictionary.com, LLC. 555 12th Street Suite 500 Oakland CA 94607 Subscriptions to the Word of the Day can also be managed online   Tell a friend about the Word of the Day!