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Inflect vs Flex - What's the difference?

inflect | flex |

As verbs the difference between inflect and flex

is that inflect is to cause to curve inwards while flex is to bend something.

As a noun flex is

(uncountable) flexibility, pliancy.

inflect

English

Verb

(en verb)
  • To cause to curve inwards.
  • (music) To change the tone or pitch of the voice when speaking or singing.
  • (grammar) To vary the form of a word to express tense, gender, number, mood, etc.

    • Synonyms

    * (to bend or curve inwards) (l)

    Derived terms

    * inflection * inflective * inflexion

    See also

    * conjugate * decline * deflect

    flex

    English

    Noun

  • (uncountable) Flexibility, pliancy.
  • (countable) The act of flexing.
  • (uncountable, chiefly, British) Any flexible insulated electrical wiring.
  • (countable, geometry) A point of inflection.

    • Verb

    (es)
  • 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
    • 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?"

    Related terms

    * flexibility * flexible * flexing * flexion