flex

IPA: fɫˈɛks

noun

  • (uncountable) Flexibility, pliancy.
  • (countable) An act of flexing.
  • (uncountable, chiefly Britain) Any flexible insulated electrical wiring.
  • (uncountable) Flexible ductwork, typically flexible plastic over a metal wire coil to shape a tube.
  • (countable, geometry) A point of inflection.
  • (countable, slang) The act or an instance of flaunting something; something one considers impressive.

verb

  • (transitive, chiefly physics or biomechanics) To bend something.
  • (transitive) To repeatedly bend one of one's joints.
  • (transitive) To move part of the body using one's muscles.
  • (intransitive) To tighten the muscles for display of size or strength.
  • (intransitive, slang, by extension) To flaunt one's superiority.
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Examples of "flex" in Sentences

  • You can do that with flash its called flex and flash media server.
  • Challenging him made his expression flex with what she had then sensed and now knew to be hunger.
  • If you wanted all this dynamic html content you should have went with adobe flash (flex is da bomb).
  • She said both she and the Assembly were opposed to the governor's proposed cuts: "He calls it flex-aid, we call it flex-cuts."
  • Then two soldiers on the ground led a hooded figure, his hands tied in flex cuffs and a number scrawled on his back, to the helicopter.
  • CLANCY: And it's a whole industry, because you've to have your cars -- in Brazil, you find most of the cars are what they call flex vehicles, so they can either run on ethanol, or they can run on regular unleaded gas.
  • They run deeper than Rules, allow for a bit of flex (let's face it, there isn't a Rule for every situation and sometimes flex is needed to allow for times when you need to bend one place to keep something more important intact), but still provide some boundaries, a compass for making good choices.

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