Dictionary Definition
flex n : the act of flexing; "he gave his biceps
a flex to impress the ladies"
Verb
1 contract; "flex a muscle"
2 exhibit the strength of; "The victorious army
flexes its invincibility"
3 form a curve; "The stick does not bend" [syn:
bend] [ant: straighten]
4 bend a joint; "flex your wrists"; "bend your
knees" [syn: bend]
5 cause (a plastic object) to assume a crooked or
angular form; "bend the rod"; "twist the dough into a braid"; "the
strong man could turn an iron bar" [syn: bend, deform, twist, turn] [ant: unbend]
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Pronunciation
- /flɛks/
- Rhymes with: -ɛks
Homophones
Verb
Translations
to bend something
to repeatedly bend one's joints
to move part of the body using one's muscles
- Dutch: plooien
- Finnish: verrytellä
- German: beugen
- Italian: flettere
to tighten one's muscles
- Croatian: napeti
- Dutch: samentrekken
- Finnish: jännittää (lihaksiaan), pullistella
- French: bander
- German: Muskeln spielen lassen
- Italian: contrarre
- Polish: napinać, prezyć
- Romanian: a contracta
- Russian: напрягать
- Slovak: napnúť
- Spanish: tensar
Noun
- flexibility, pliancy
- the act of flexing
- (mostly British) any flexible insulated electrical wiring.
Translations
flexibility
- Dutch: flexibiliteit, plooibaarheid, buigbaarheid
- Finnish: jousto, joustavuus
- German: Biegsamkeit, Flexibilität, Elastizität
- Italian: flessibilità
the act of flexing
- Dutch: buigen , plooien
- Finnish: venyttely, verryttely, pullistelu
- German: Anpassungsfähigkeit Beweglichkeit
- Italian: flessione
insulated electrical wiring
- Estonian: ühendusjuhe
- Finnish: liitäntäjohto
- German: Anschlusskabel
Related terms
Extensive Definition
Flex may refer to:
- Flexible electrical cable
In computing
- Adobe Flex, technologies for developing rich internet applications
- Flex, a family of automatic test equipment produced by Teradyne
- Flex lexical analyser, a free software alternative to Lex
- Flex machine, multiple systems
- FLEX (operating system), a single-tasking operating system for the Motorola 6800
- FLEX (protocol), a communication protocol for pagers
In modern culture
- Nigga, Félix Danilo Gómez, Panamanian reggaeton singer, alternatively named "Flex"
- Flex Alexander, Mark Akexabder Knox (b. 1970), an American actor and comedian
- Flex (club), a nightclub in Vienna
- Flex (comics), a fictional superhero
- FLEX (magazine), an American bodybuilding magazine
- Flex (Pitch Black EP)
- Funkmaster Flex, Aston George Taylo Jr (b. 1968), an American hip hop DJ
In science and technology
- Femtosecond Lenticule EXtraction, a form of refractive eye surgery
- Flex-Elektrowerkzeuge, a German producer of power tools
- Flex-fuel, a Flexible-fuel vehicle
- FLEX mission, a potential satellite launch mission by the European Space Agency
- Flextronics (NASDAQ symbo: FLEX), a contract electronics maker in Singapore
- Ford Flex, a full sized people mover vehicle
- Frequency Level Expander, a Pioneer Corporation tape enhancement feature
In other uses
- Flexible spending account, a tax-advantaged savings account
- Flexion, in anatomy, a position made possible by the joint angle decreasing
flex in German: Flex
flex in Spanish: Flex
flex in French: Flex
flex in Korean: Flex
flex in Italian: Flex
flex in Japanese: フレックス
flex in Russian: Flex
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
S-curve, arch, bend, bend back, bending, bow, bowing, cable, conflexure, contract, cord, crook, curl, curve, decurve, deflect, deflection, dome, embow, exercise, extension, flection, flexure, geanticline, geosyncline, give, hairpin turn, hook, hump, hunch, incurvate, incurve, inflect, inflection, lead, loop, meander, oxbow, recurve, reflect, reflection, reflex, retroflex, round, sag, stretch, swag, sweep, tense, tighten, turn, turning, vault, wind, wire