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Flex is defined as to bend or tense a muscle or body part, or to show the strength of something.
(verb)- An example of flex is to bend the knee.
- An example of flex is to show off your memory; flex your memory skills.
The definition of a flex is a British term for an electrical wire that is bendable and has insulation.
(noun)An example of a flex is a twisted pair.
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See flex in Webster's New World College Dictionary
transitive verb, intransitive verb
- to bend (an arm, knee, etc.)
- to tense (a muscle) by contraction
Origin: < L flexus, pp. of flectere, to bend, curve
noun
Brit. flexible, insulated electric cord
Origin: < flexible
See flex in American Heritage Dictionary 4
verb flexed, flex·ing, flex·es verb, transitive
- To bend (something pliant or elastic).
- a. To bend (a joint).b. To bend (a joint) repeatedly.
- a. To contract (a muscle, for example).b. To move by muscular control: “Sandy flexes his brow characteristically” (Scott Turow).
- To exhibit or show off the strength of: “They had spent six years since the lightning Six Day War flexing their invincibility” (Howard Kaplan).
To bend: “His hands flexed nervously as he spoke” (Mary McCarthy).
noun- Chiefly British Flexible insulated electric cord.
- The act or an instance of flexing; a bending.
- Pliancy; flexibility: “‘Resolution’ has none of that modern flex we favor, with generous, built-in amounts of ‘maybe’” (Melvin Maddocks).
Origin:
Origin: Latin flectere, flex-, to bend
. prefix
Variant of flexi-.
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