Sign for Plastic?

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I've been wondering about the ASL sign for plastic: I can't find it on any online dictionaries, and I don't remember learning it. Also, the sign for glass- I remember seeing it done as pointing to the teeth? Or is that something else completely. Thank you!
 
The sign for plastic is kind of like sign for "false." Do a P (kind of looks like a K) on your cheek (forward and forth) repeatedly Follow me? :fingersx:
 
In my area, we sign:

GLASS by tapping the upper front teeth with the X finger,

FALSE by once brushing across the end of the nose with the index finger, and

PLASTIC by spelling.
 
When in doubt spell.

If you feel you have become a poster child for the Rochester method learn more signs.

:giggle:
 
Brian said:
The sign for plastic is kind of like sign for "false." Do a P (kind of looks like a K) on your cheek (forward and forth) repeatedly Follow me? :fingersx:
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That's exactly what I've seen and used here too.
 
Ahhh, thank you so much! I also do false by passing my index finger past my mouth, with the tip barely brushing my nose. I still have to work on my fingerspelling too, but the "when in doubt spell" is definitely a good plan. Thanks everybody.
 
Reba said:
In my area, we sign:

GLASS by tapping the upper front teeth with the X finger,

FALSE by once brushing across the end of the nose with the index finger, and

PLASTIC by spelling.
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We sign "False" + "Glass" for plastic.
 
My friend who went to American School for the Deaf signed it this way:

Non-dominant "b" hand horizontal. Dominant grips non-dom fingers and flexes back and forth.
 
Interesting- I guess I should find out how people in this area sign it.
 
Gobae said:
My friend who went to American School for the Deaf signed it this way:

Non-dominant "b" hand horizontal. Dominant grips non-dom fingers and flexes back and forth.
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Ah, like "flexible" or "pliant." Yes, I would use that sign for that concept.

Most often we spell it here when referring to an object's material, such as "the outer layer was made of a hard plastic."
 
Just to make it more fun, how about all the various definitions of "plastic?" :lol:

plas⋅tic
   /ˈplæstɪk/ Show Spelled Pronunciation [plas-tik] Show IPA Pronunciation
–noun
1. Often, plastics. any of a group of synthetic or natural organic materials that may be shaped when soft and then hardened, including many types of resins, resinoids, polymers, cellulose derivatives, casein materials, and proteins: used in place of other materials, as glass, wood, and metals, in construction and decoration, for making many articles, as coatings, and, drawn into filaments, for weaving. They are often known by trademark names, as Bakelite, Vinylite, or Lucite.
2. a credit card, or credit cards collectively, usually made of plastic: He had a whole pocketful of plastic.
3. money, payment, or credit represented by the use of a credit card or cards.
4. something, or a group of things, made of or resembling plastic: The entire meal was served on plastic.
–adjective
5. made of plastic.
6. capable of being molded or of receiving form: clay and other plastic substances.
7. produced by molding: plastic figures.
8. having the power of molding or shaping formless or yielding material: the plastic forces of nature.
9. being able to create, esp. within an art form; having the power to give form or formal expression: the plastic imagination of great poets and composers.
10. Fine Arts.
a. concerned with or pertaining to molding or modeling; sculptural.
b. relating to three-dimensional form or space, esp. on a two-dimensional surface.
c. pertaining to the tools or techniques of drawing, painting, or sculpture: the plastic means.
d. characterized by an emphasis on formal structure: plastic requirements of a picture.
11. pliable; impressionable: the plastic mind of youth.
12. giving the impression of being made of or furnished with plastic: We stayed at one of those plastic motels.
13. artificial or insincere; synthetic; phony: jeans made of cotton, not some plastic substitute; a plastic smile.
14. lacking in depth, individuality, or permanence; superficial, dehumanized, or mass-produced: a plastic society interested only in material acquisition.
15. of or pertaining to the use of credit cards: plastic credit; plastic money.
16. Biology, Pathology. formative.
17. Surgery. concerned with or pertaining to the remedying or restoring of malformed, injured, or lost parts: a plastic operation.
 
Sign for plastic explained

Plastic n. adj. (pliable). The right hand grasps the middle finger of the left "P" hand and bends if back and forth.
 
It would be easier to show you the sign then to try an explain in English how its signed.
 
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