What's the difference between bend and flex?

Bend


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To strain or move out of a straight line; to crook by straining; to make crooked; to curve; to make ready for use by drawing into a curve; as, to bend a bow; to bend the knee.
  • (v. t.) To turn toward some certain point; to direct; to incline.
  • (v. t.) To apply closely or with interest; to direct.
  • (v. t.) To cause to yield; to render submissive; to subdue.
  • (v. t.) To fasten, as one rope to another, or as a sail to its yard or stay; or as a cable to the ring of an anchor.
  • (v. i.) To be moved or strained out of a straight line; to crook or be curving; to bow.
  • (v. i.) To jut over; to overhang.
  • (v. i.) To be inclined; to be directed.
  • (v. i.) To bow in prayer, or in token of submission.
  • (n.) A turn or deflection from a straight line or from the proper direction or normal position; a curve; a crook; as, a slight bend of the body; a bend in a road.
  • (n.) Turn; purpose; inclination; ends.
  • (n.) A knot by which one rope is fastened to another or to an anchor, spar, or post.
  • (n.) The best quality of sole leather; a butt. See Butt.
  • (n.) Hard, indurated clay; bind.
  • (n.) same as caisson disease. Usually referred to as the bends.
  • (n.) A band.
  • (n.) One of the honorable ordinaries, containing a third or a fifth part of the field. It crosses the field diagonally from the dexter chief to the sinister base.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Fifty-two pairs of canine femora were tested to failure in four-point bending.
  • (2) Think of Nelson Mandela – there is a determination, an unwillingness to bend in the face of challenges, that earns you respect and makes people look to you for guidance.
  • (3) This behavior consists of a very rapid bend of the body and tail that is thought to arise from the monosynaptic excitation of large primary motoneurons by the Mauthner cell.
  • (4) Intrinsic bending of the 527-bp fragment (bend center approximately at bp 240) was represented as a composite of at least two components located near bp 170 and near bp 260.
  • (5) We found that the Gallie system generally allowed significantly more rotation in flexion, extension, axial rotation, and lateral bending than the other three fixation techniques.
  • (6) After a hiatus, Smith is back with a flourish for her genre-bending new novel How to be Both , and David Mitchell has been longlisted for a third time, for The Bone Clocks .
  • (7) The developed apparatus included ultrasonic generators operating at a frequency of 0.5-3 MHz, piezoceramic radiators of various design providing the heating of an object with convergent, divergent and plane ultrasonic waves, thermoprobes in the form of single or multiple thermocouples with the bends from 5 points at a 5 mm distance from one another, temperature meters and various auxiliaries.
  • (8) Optical diffraction measurements on electron micrographs of the bend demonstrate that the axostyle tubules slide over one another and that the tubules on the inside of a bend usually contract, sometimes by as much as 25%.
  • (9) Temperature decline through the region of 10 degrees C caused a number of spermatozoa in buffer to undergo a sudden asymmetric bending of the flagellum in the region of the midpiece.
  • (10) This large increase in power output can be accommodated without an increase in metabolic rate only if internal viscous resistances to flagellar bending are relatively low.
  • (11) I was asked, as still the home secretary, would you bend on ID cards, and we'd put all our bits in, and we thought we could get a deal here.
  • (12) We measured the stiffness of comparable configurations (1 or 2 bars) under axial compression, four-point-bending in two planes, and torsion.
  • (13) The criteria of failure of pedicular instrumentation or "death" of an implant were defined as 1) screw bending, 2) screw breakage, 3) infection, 4) loosening of implants, 5) any rod or plate hardware problems, or 6) removal of hardware due to a neurologic complication.
  • (14) Static and fatigue testing of representative samples by the simultaneous application of compressive and bending loads to the maximum values specified by international standards exposed no failures by the time a million cycles had been reached.
  • (15) My Paul Nuttalls routine has floated back up the U-bend | Stewart Lee Read more Nuttall told Marr that “nothing should be a sacred cow in British politics.
  • (16) Using fluorescence energy transfer, the extent of DNA bending was estimated by measuring the end-to-end distance of the DNA fragment which was labeled with a donor-acceptor pair on two opposite ends.
  • (17) Future ice loss and bending of the crust due to rising sea levels have the potential ultimately to raise levels of both earthquake and volcanic activity.
  • (18) In addition, the ability to bend DNA is retained by a small proteolytic fragment of the protein, suggesting that the DNA-binding domain of the protein is resistant to proteases and is sufficient to bend DNA.
  • (19) As in our previous studies, the modulus of elasticity in bending was significantly less than the value obtained in tension for only the smaller cross-sectional wires.
  • (20) Assuming no future environmental or lifestyle changes, the upward trend in age-adjusted mortality rates, which averaged 2 to 3% per annum since 1950, is projected to discontinue and bend downward by the second decade of the 21st century.

Flex


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To bend; as, to flex the arm.
  • (n.) Flax.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Failure was more likely with a subluxated, tilted, or excessively thick patella or flexed femoral component.
  • (2) Pharmacological actions on the nociceptive flexion flexes of the hindlimb were investigated in 14 normal subjects.
  • (3) But Wawrinka, who seemed to be flexing his knee a moment ago, is making more mistakes.
  • (4) With the whole spine flexed, muscle activity in the cervical erector spinae, trapezius and thoracic erector spinae muscles was higher than when the whole spine was straight and vertical.
  • (5) 'Squeeze' with the left hand followed by 'flex' with the right elbow.
  • (6) The infant, who was utterly small for his gestational age, showed an aberrant motoric pattern and a high forehead, low-set ears, a prominent occiput and scoliosis, an extension defect in the knee joints and flexed, ulnar-deviated wrists.
  • (7) This paper examined the mobility of intervertebral joints in axial rotation in a neutral and in two flexed positions.
  • (8) When the hair is maintained flexed its sensory neurone discharges tonically (Fig.
  • (9) The elongate and slim shape of the trunk provides great mass moments of inertia and that means stability against being flexed ventrally and dorsally by the forward and rearward movements of the heavy and long hindlimbs.
  • (10) On admission, his right hand and all of right fingers were flexed.
  • (11) These tendons pass dorsally from the median nerve through the carpal canal, where the nerve is subject to pressure when the tendons stretch whilst the wrist is flexed.
  • (12) For a nation that has begun to flex its military muscles, its presence on another world perfectly demonstrates its national prowess.
  • (13) An extended position proved to be more successful in demonstrating that finding than the flexed one.
  • (14) Blood pump diaphragms are required to be biocompatible and must be capable of long-term flexing without failure.
  • (15) As the earliest treatment the fixation of the shoulder joint in abduction and external rotation with flexed elbow on a splint as prevention of further stretch on the plexus and contractures seems to be the most important masure; later on a physio-therapy and mobilisation of the joints is of essential importance.
  • (16) At approximately 70% of the fracture load for the 90 degrees flexed knee, nearly 35% of the contact area was exposed to pressures greater than 25 MPa.
  • (17) A separation between the femur and the tibia of 1.3-3.8 mm was found in 3 knees which were slightly flexed during the traction.
  • (18) Cholesterol and stigmastanol are largely buried in the hydrocarbon part of the membrane, distinctly restricting the flexing motions of the fatty acyl chains whereas the conformation of the phospholipid headgroups is little affected.
  • (19) After ingesting even a small amount of sucrose, the fly begins making frequent, tight turns, flexes its front tarsi to bring more chemosensory hairs into contact with the substrate and repeatedly extends and retracts its proboscis.
  • (20) Another case confirmed that an abduction force on the flexed hip can produce anterior dislocation of the hip.

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