Flex vs Extend - What's the difference?
flex | extend |
(uncountable) Flexibility, pliancy.
(countable) The act of flexing.
(uncountable, chiefly, British) Any flexible insulated electrical wiring.
(countable, geometry) A point of inflection.
To bend something.
To repeatedly bend one of one's joints.
To move part of the body using one's muscles.
(bodybuilding) To tighten the muscles for display of size or strength.
* 1994 , Elise Title, Body Heat? , page 189
To increase in extent.
To possess a certain extent.
To cause to increase in extent.
To cause to last for a longer period of time.
To straighten (a limb).
To bestow; to offer; to impart; to apply.
To increase in quantity by weakening or adulterating additions.
(UK, legal) To value, as lands taken by a writ of extent in satisfaction of a debt; to assign by writ of extent.
As verbs the difference between flex and extend
is that flex is to bend something while extend is to increase in extent.As a noun flex
is flexibility, pliancy.flex
English
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Verb
(es)- He rubbed his hands together. "Believe it or not, there was a time when I considered giving acting a go. What do you think, Miss Fox?" He flexed impressive biceps. "Would I have had a chance against the Schwarzeneggers and the Chuck Norris types?"
extend
English
Verb
(en verb)- to extend sympathy to the suffering
- to extend liquors