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flex 音標拼音: [fl'ɛks] vt. 彎曲,伸縮,折曲
vi. 彎曲 n. 電線,松緊帶 彎曲,伸縮,折曲彎曲電線,松緊帶 flex n 1: the act of flexing; "he gave his biceps a flex to impress the ladies" v 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" [synonym: {bend}, {flex}] [ant: {straighten}, {unbend}] 4: bend a joint; "flex your wrists"; "bend your knees" [synonym: {flex}, {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" [synonym: {flex}, {bend}, {deform}, {twist}, {turn}] [ant: {unbend}] Flex \Flex\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Flexed}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Flexing}.] [L. flexus, p. p. of flectere to bend, perh. flectere and akin to falx sickle, E. falchion. Cf. {Flinch}.] To bend; as, to flex the arm. [1913 Webster] Flex \Flex\, n. Flax. [Obs.] --Chaucer. [1913 Webster] 55 Moby Thesaurus words for "flex": 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 at the (then) {Royal Signals and Radar Establishment} at Malvern in the late 1970s. The hardware was custom and {microprogrammable}, with an {operating system}, (modular) {compiler}, editor, {garbage collector} and {filing system} all written in {Algol-68}. Flex was also re-implemented on the {Perq}(?). [I. F. Currie and others, "Flex Firmware", Technical Report, RSRE, Number 81009, 1981]. [I. F. Currie, "In Praise of Procedures", RSRE, 1982]. (1997-11-17) |
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