| 词汇 | flexing |
| 释义 | flexing present participle offlex flex verb uk /fleks/ us /fleks/ flexverb (bend)[ T ] to bend an arm, leg, etc. or tighten a muscle: 活动（手臂、腿等）;使（肌肉）绷紧 First, straighten your legs, then flex your feet.首先，伸直双腿，接着活动双脚。 He tried to impress me by flexing his huge muscles.他绷紧他那些大块的肌肉，想吸引我注意他。 [ I or T ] (of a material) to bend without breaking, or to make a material do this: Sheets of brittle lava broke under their own weight as they flexed. Metal fatigue occurs when steel is flexed. Bending, twisting and curving arch your back ball up bendy bent bowed describe distortion entwine flex flexion flexural rewind swirlingly swoopy tangle tangled tangly wristy writhe zigzag You can also find related words, phrases, and synonyms in the topics: Flexible, loose and yielding flexverb (change)[ I or T ] to change something slightly to make it more suitable for a particular situation; to be changed like this: There may be a need to suspend or flex established laws. In keeping the description of the job as general as possible, a manager can flex the boundaries of that job to meet the dynamic challenges of the world around them. The space can flex to suit various uses. Adapting and modifying acclimate acclimation acclimatization acclimatize acclimatize to something amendment chameleon change with/keep up with/move with the timesidiom configure counter-adaptation pliant pliantly preadaptation preadaptive put something back unacclimatized unadapted unamended write someone out of something Zelig flexverb (behave proudly)[ I ]slang to show that you are very proud or happy about something you have done or something you own, usually in a way that annoys people: "I beat you!" "Hey, no flexing." No need to flex about all the cash you've got. Boasting bighead blow your own trumpetidiom blowhard boast boastful boastfulness brag braggadocio braggadocious braggart chest-beating chest-thumping crow crow about something flex humblebrag rodomontade swaggerer toot toot your own hornidiom Idiomflex your muscles Examples of flexingflexing In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use. A new urban bourgeoisie was growing, demanding change, and flexing its muscles. Quasi-harmonic motions, such as twisting of b-sheets and the flexing of a-helices in proteins occur in the sub-nanosecond time scale. The change in strike could be wholly or partly due to flexing of the eastern domain boundary about the antiform axis. But from the point of view of the mathematician, sort of flexing his mathematical muscles, one would not be so excited. Attacks of brief vertigo, nausea and imbalance provoked by turning over in bed, lying down, sitting up from lying position, extending or flexing the neck. Two arms are indicated on the frontal side of the sculpture, first running parallel to the torso, then flexing slightly inward. The subjects in this experiment also reported a flexing of the perceived surface in depth near the disparity-defined cursor. The only force accommodation is passive flexing of the structure. This flexing point is an important landmark on the fetal head for vacuum extraction. This application is called flexing median, and operators should strive to achieve it in all positions of the occiput. The cup is pressed against the fetal head and, depending on the position of the occiput, manoeuvred until its centre is over the flexing point. Thus, when the centre of a 50mm cup is over the flexing point, the posterior 6cm of the suture line will be covered leaving 3cm of the anterior portion exposed. These interactions are pathway specific and can include the formation of cooperative ensembles, use of interface mimicry and exchange, switching of states in chemo-mechanical assemblies, and flexing by unstructured regions. Additional force will be minimal if the application of the cup is flexing median and the direction of traction is in line with the axis of the pelvis. Once again, we see the dissident groups of republicanism flexing their muscles and currently making a serious nuisance of themselves. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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