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Flexible vs Gird - What's the difference?

flexible | gird |

As nouns the difference between flexible and gird

is that flexible is (chiefly|engineering|and|manufacturing) something that is flexible while gird is a sarcastic remark.

As a adjective flexible

is capable of being flexed or bent without breaking; able to be turned, bowed, or twisted, without breaking; pliable; not stiff or brittle.

As a verb gird is

to bind with a flexible rope or cord or gird can be to jeer at.

flexible

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Capable of being flexed or bent without breaking; able to be turned, bowed, or twisted, without breaking; pliable; not stiff or brittle.
    • When the splitting wind Makes flexible the knees of knotted oaks. -
  • Willing or ready to yield to the influence of others; not invincibly rigid or obstinate; tractable; manageable; ductile; easy and compliant; wavering.
    • Phocion was a man of great severity, and no ways flexible to the will of the people. - .
    Women are soft, mild, pitiful, and flexible . -
  • Capable or being adapted or molded; plastic,; as, a flexible language.
    • This was a principle more flexible to their purpose. -Rogers.

    Synonyms

    * bendsome * ductile * inconstant * manageable * obsequious * pliant * pliable * supple * tractable * wavering

    Derived terms

    * flexibly * flexibleness

    Related terms

    * flexibility * inflexible

    See also

    * foldable

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (chiefly, engineering, and, manufacturing) Something that is flexible.
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    References

    * * (flexible) * (flexibility) ----

    gird

    English

    Etymology 1

    (etyl) .

    Verb

  • To bind with a flexible rope or cord.
    • The fasces were girt about with twine in bundles large.
  • To encircle with, or as if with a belt.
    • The lady girt herself with silver chain, from which she hung a golden shear.
    Our home is girt by sea... -
  • To prepare oneself for an action.
    • Related terms
    * girder * girdle * * girt * undergird

    Etymology 2

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A sarcastic remark.
  • * Shakespeare
    • I thank thee for that gird , good Tranio.
  • A stroke with a rod or switch.
  • A severe spasm; a twinge; a pang.
  • * Tillotson
    • Conscience is freed from many fearful girds and twinges which the atheist feels.

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To jeer at.
  • * Shakespeare
    • Being moved, he will not spare to gird the gods.
  • To jeer.
  • * Shakespeare
    • Men of all sorts take a pride to gird at me.

    Anagrams

    * English irregular verbs English terms with multiple etymologies