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flex
English
Etymology
Latin flexus, past participle of flecto (“to bend”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /fl?ks/
- Rhymes: -?ks
- Homophone: flecks
Noun
flex (countable and uncountable, plural flexes)
- (uncountable) Flexibility, pliancy.
- (countable) The or an act of flexing.
- 2002, Gary Noy, Red Dirt: A Journey of Discovery in the Landscape of Imagination, California's Gold Country, iUniverse (?ISBN), page 144:
- The hills become more rounded. The slopes are either the stooped shoulders of an aging colossus or the muscular flexes of a geologic youngster, but they are pleasant, comforting. This landscape is what most would think of […]
- 2002, Gary Noy, Red Dirt: A Journey of Discovery in the Landscape of Imagination, California's Gold Country, iUniverse (?ISBN), page 144:
- (uncountable, chiefly Britain) Any flexible insulated electrical wiring.
- (uncountable) Flexible ductwork, typically flexible plastic over a metal wire coil to shape a tube.
- 2010, Aaron Lubeck, Green Restorations: Sustainable Building and Historic Homes (page 221)
- Flex is quick and cheaper to install than metallic systems, but it yields higher pressure loss than other types of ducts and requires runs of less than 15 feet, minimal turns and elimination of kinks.
- 2010, Aaron Lubeck, Green Restorations: Sustainable Building and Historic Homes (page 221)
- (countable, geometry) A point of inflection.
- (countable, slang) The act of flaunting something; something one considers impressive.
- 2017, "Mogul Bites", Black American Moguls, Fall 2017, page 6:
- Getting together with other power players at Masa is the ultimate flex of conspicuous consumption. […] A party of five or more requires a deposit of $200 per person at least one week prior to the reservation.
- 2019, Seth Sommerfeld, "Worldwide Web", Inlander, 4 July 2019 - 10 July 2019, page 37:
- It's an achievement to stand out from other Marvel movies in terms of special effects, but this whole movie feels like a flex for those computer wizards.
- 2020, Daniel Varghese, "Aesop's Hand Sanitizer Is a Flex for an Anxious Time", GQ, 6 March 2020
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:flex.
- 2017, "Mogul Bites", Black American Moguls, Fall 2017, page 6:
Translations
Verb
flex (third-person singular simple present flexes, present participle flexing, simple past and past participle flexed)
- (transitive) To bend something.
- (transitive) To repeatedly bend one of one's joints.
- (transitive) To move part of the body using one's muscles.
- (intransitive) To tighten the muscles for display of size or strength.
- (intransitive, slang, by extension) To flaunt one's superiority.
Translations
Related terms
- flexibility
- flexible
- flexing
- flexion
Anagrams
- XFEL
flex From the web:
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history
English
Alternative forms
- historie (obsolete)
- hystory (nonstandard)
- hystorie (obsolete)
Etymology
From Middle English historie, from Old French estoire, estorie (“chronicle, history, story”) (French histoire), from Latin historia, from Ancient Greek ??????? (historí?, “learning through research”), from ??????? (historé?, “to research, inquire (and) record”), from ????? (híst?r, “the knowing, wise one”), from Proto-Indo-European *weyd- (“see, know”). Doublet of story and storey.
Attested in Middle English in 1393 by John Gower, Confessio Amantis, which was aimed at an educated audience familiar with French and Latin.
Pronunciation
- enPR: h?s?t(?)r?, h?s?tr?, IPA(key): /?h?st(?)?i/, /?h?st(?)??/
- Hyphenation: his?to?ry, hist?ory
Noun
history (countable and uncountable, plural histories)
- The aggregate of past events.
- Synonyms: background, past
- The branch of knowledge that studies the past; the assessment of notable events.
- (countable) A set of events involving an entity.
- (countable) A record or narrative description of past events.
- Synonyms: account, chronicle, story, tale
- (countable, medicine) A list of past and continuing medical conditions of an individual or family.
- Synonym: medical history
- (countable, computing) A record of previous user events, especially of visited web pages in a browser.
- Synonym: log
- (informal) Something that no longer exists or is no longer relevant.
- (uncountable) Shared experience or interaction.
Derived terms
Descendants
- Pitcairn-Norfolk: histrei
Translations
Verb
history (third-person singular simple present histories, present participle historying, simple past and past participle historied)
- (obsolete) To narrate or record.
References
Further reading
- history on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- history at OneLook Dictionary Search
- history in Keywords for Today: A 21st Century Vocabulary, edited by The Keywords Project, Colin MacCabe, Holly Yanacek, 2018.
- "history" in Raymond Williams, Keywords (revised), 1983, Fontana Press, page 146.
- history in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
Anagrams
- Toryish, Troyish, roytish
Middle English
Noun
history
- Alternative form of historie
history From the web:
- what history forgot
- what history is taught in 11th grade
- what history is taught in 10th grade
- what history is taught in 9th grade
- what history is taught in 12th grade
- what history month is october
- what history is taught in 8th grade
- what history is taught in 7th grade
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