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Flexible vs Moving - What's the difference?

flexible | moving |

As adjectives the difference between flexible and moving

is that flexible is capable of being flexed or bent without breaking; able to be turned, bowed, or twisted, without breaking; pliable; not stiff or brittle while moving is (no comparative or superlative ) that moves or move.

As nouns the difference between flexible and moving

is that flexible is (chiefly|engineering|and|manufacturing) something that is flexible while moving is (uncountable) the relocation of goods.

As a verb moving is

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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.
  • * {{quote-news, year=2009, date=August 19, author=Terry McCrann, title=Win-win deal for the times, work=Herald Sun citation
    • , passage=Alcan is mostly flexibles -- and so it boosts Amcor's flexible packaging business to a globally significant $7 billion one. }}

    References

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

    moving

    English

    (wikipedia moving)

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (no comparative or superlative ) That moves or move.
    • moving pictures
  • That causes someone to feel emotion.
  • * Coleridge
    • I sang an old moving story.

    Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

  • (uncountable) The relocation of goods
  • (countable) A causing of a movement
    • The rats' movings are willed movements.