flex

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" [syn: {bend}, {flex}]
       [ant: {straighten}, {unbend}]
    4: bend a joint; "flex your wrists"; "bend your knees" [syn:
       {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" [syn: {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]
    

FLEX

   <language> 1. {Faster LEX}.

   2. A {real-time} language for dynamic environments.

   ["FLEX: Towards Flexible Real-Time Programs", K. Lin et al,
   Computer Langs 16(1):65-79, Jan 1991].

   3. An early {object-oriented} language developed for the
   {FLEX} machine by {Alan Kay} in about 1967.  The FLEX language
   was a simplification of {Simula} and a predecessor of
   {Smalltalk}.

   (1995-03-29)
    

Flex

   <software, hardware> A system developed by Ian Currie (Iain?)
   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)
    

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