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flexible
English
Etymology
From Middle French flexible, from Latin flexibilis, from flect? (“I bend, curve”).
Pronunciation
- (UK, US) IPA(key): /?fl?k.s?.b?l/, /?fl?k.s?.b?l/
Adjective
flexible (comparative more flexible, superlative most flexible)
- Capable of being flexed or bent without breaking; able to be turned or twisted without breaking.
- Synonym: pliable
- Antonyms: stiff, brittle, inflexible
- When the splitting wind Makes flexible the knees of knotted oaks. -William Shakespeare
- Willing or prone to give way to the influence of others; not invincibly rigid or obstinate.
- Synonyms: tractable, manageable, ductile
- Phocion was a man of great severity, and no ways flexible to the will of the people. - Francis Bacon.
- Women are soft, mild, pitiful, and flexible. - William Shakespeare
- Capable or being adapted or molded in some way.
- Synonyms: plastic, malleable
- a flexible language
- This was a principle more flexible to their purpose. -Rogers.
Synonyms
Derived terms
- flexibly
- flexibleness
Related terms
- flexibility
- inflexible
Translations
See also
- foldable
Noun
flexible (plural flexibles)
- (chiefly engineering and manufacturing) Something that is flexible.
References
- flexible in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- flexible on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- flexibility on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Asturian
Etymology
From Latin flexibilis.
Adjective
flexible (epicene, plural flexibles)
- flexible
- Antonym: inflexible
Related terms
- flexibilidá
Catalan
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin flexibilis.
Pronunciation
- (Balearic, Central) IPA(key): /fl?k?si.bl?/
- (Valencian) IPA(key): /flek?si.ble/
Adjective
flexible (masculine and feminine plural flexibles)
- flexible
- Antonym: inflexible
Derived terms
- disc flexible
- flexibilitzar
Related terms
- flexibilitat
Further reading
- “flexible” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
- “flexible” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
- “flexible” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
- “flexible” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
French
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin flexibilis.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /fl?k.sibl/
- Homophone: flexibles
- Hyphenation: flex?sible
Adjective
flexible (plural flexibles)
- flexible
Derived terms
- flexiblement
- inflexible
Related terms
- flexibilité
Further reading
- “flexible” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Galician
Alternative forms
- flexíbel
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin flexibilis.
Adjective
flexible m or f (plural flexibles)
- flexible
Antonyms
- inflexible, inflexíbel
Related terms
- flexibilidade
Further reading
- “flexible” in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega, Royal Galician Academy.
German
Adjective
flexible
- inflection of flexibel:
- strong/mixed nominative/accusative feminine singular
- strong nominative/accusative plural
- weak nominative all-gender singular
- weak accusative feminine/neuter singular
Spanish
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin flexibilis, from flect? (“to bend, curve”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /fle??sible/, [fle???si.??le]
Adjective
flexible (plural flexibles)
- flexible (clarification of this definition is needed)
- Antonym: inflexible
Derived terms
- disco flexible
- flexibilidad
- flexibilizar
- flexibilización
Related terms
- flexión
- flexionar
Further reading
- “flexible” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.
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cresset
English
Etymology
From Old French crasset, cresset (“sort of lamp or torch”); perhaps of Old Dutch or Old High German origin, and akin to English cruse, French creuset (“crucible”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?k??s?t/
Noun
cresset (plural cressets)
- A metal cup, suspended from a pole and filled with burning pitch etc; once used as portable illumination.
- 1835, William Wordsworth, Stanzas suggested in a Steamboat off St. Bees' Head, on the coast of Cumberland
- As a cresset true that darts its length / Of beamy lustre from a tower of strength.
- 1835, William Wordsworth, Stanzas suggested in a Steamboat off St. Bees' Head, on the coast of Cumberland
- (coopering) A small furnace or iron cage to hold fire for charring the inside of a cask, and making the staves flexible.
- 1805–1814, Dante Alighieri, Henry Francis Cary (translator), The Divine Comedy, "Inferno", Canto VIII
- We reach'd the lofty turret's base, our eyes / its height ascended, where we mark'd uphung / two cressets and another saw from far
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Knight to this entry?)
- 1805–1814, Dante Alighieri, Henry Francis Cary (translator), The Divine Comedy, "Inferno", Canto VIII
Translations
See also
- brazier
Anagrams
- Secrest, resects, secrets
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