(a.) Capable of being flexed or bent; admitting of being turned, bowed, or twisted, without breaking; pliable; yielding to pressure; not stiff or brittle.
(a.) Willing or ready to yield to the influence of others; not invincibly rigid or obstinate; tractable; manageable; ductile; easy and compliant; wavering.
(a.) Capable or being adapted or molded; plastic,; as, a flexible language.
Example Sentences:
(1) Many speak about how yoga and surfing complement each other, both involving deep concentration, flexibility and balance.
(2) Results on resting blood pressure, serum lipids, vital capacity, flexibility, upper body strength, and vertical jump tests were comparable to values found for the sedentary population.
(3) This suggests that S1 is a flexible protein with at least two domains that can rotate independently.
(4) A more current view of science, the Probabilistic paradigm, encourages more complex models, which can be articulated as the more flexible maxims used with insight by the wise clinician.
(5) With improved monitoring, the use of smaller, more flexible endoscopes, and more experience, routine general anesthesia in children less than 3 years of age, as recommended in the past, may not be mandatory.
(6) Flexibility and integration of approaches may be advantageous and hypnosis, including regression and reframing, may be especially powerful in the treatment of phobics.
(7) The drug orientation and the DNA orientation (reflecting flexibility) are observed to vary differently and nonmonotonically with binding ratio, suggesting specific binding and varying site geometries.
(8) Extraction tools included flexible, telescoping sheaths advanced over the lead to dilate scar tissue and apply countertraction, deflection catheters, and wire basket snares.
(9) Flexibility is essential so that the appropriate technique or agent can be selected for a particular pediatric ICU patient.
(10) The flexible adaptation of psychosomatic aspects to the current needs of dermatologists was found most important.
(11) Lenses with inserted flexible open loops (e.g., Dubroff) have only been implanted in small series, but the results have been quite good.
(12) The presence of aspartic acid and asparagine residues in other conformations, such as those in partially denatured, conformationally flexible regions, may lead to more rapid succinimide formation and contribute to the degradation of the molecule.
(13) Eight alpha-helices behave as relatively rigid bodies and corner regions are more flexible, showing larger fluctuations.
(14) We interpret the high resistance of this protein to urea as reflecting a reduced flexibility of its structure at normal temperatures which should be correlated to the thermophilic origin of this protein.
(15) We argue that the power and flexibility of computer simulation as a technique for dealing with uncertainty and variability is especially appropriate in the case of HIV and AIDS.
(16) A one-way analysis of variance showed that there were no significant differences in flexibility of the five fixation constructs (P greater than .05).
(17) All patients with distal polyps detected during flexible sigmoidoscopy underwent colonoscopy.
(18) A small helix is identified at the carboxy terminus of A2 which emerges through the central pore of the B subunits and probably comes into contact with the membrane upon binding, whereas the A1 subunit is flexible with respect to the B pentamer.
(19) These observations strongly suggest that (i) GCN4 specifically recognizes the central base pair, (ii) the optimal half-site for GCN4 binding is ATGAC, not ATGAG, and (iii) GCN4 is a surprisingly flexible protein that can accommodate the insertion of a single base pair in the center of its compact binding site.
(20) New laws to give parents more flexible leave and strong commitments to family-friendly working hours will be among the headline measures.
Hidebound
Definition:
(a.) Having the skin adhering so closely to the ribs and back as not to be easily loosened or raised; -- said of an animal.
(a.) Having the bark so close and constricting that it impedes the growth; -- said of trees.
(a.) Untractable; bigoted; obstinately and blindly or stupidly conservative.
(a.) Niggardly; penurious.
Example Sentences:
(1) Osborne would like some of that conservative approach imported into the UK, while at the same time ensuring that the banks are not so hidebound by new capital requirements that credit is choked off.
(2) Whether it is a fault of Britain's hidebound business environment or a reflection of where Branson sees a money-making opportunity, many of the tycoon's UK ventures have involved close interaction with the government of the day, from seeking ministerial backing for Heathrow landing slots to buying Northern Rock from the state for £747m.
(3) The Tory government, and the business secretary in particular, are so hidebound by their restrictive economic orthodoxy that they have allowed this problem to fester and they are even now reluctant to do what is necessary to save our steel industry.
(4) The all too obvious danger is that the Burmese military, fearful of losing its privileges, hidebound by a narrow view of national security, and feeling it has already achieved its aim of balancing strong Chinese influence by bringing other countries into play, will sideline or discard her.
(5) Rather, they had the appearance of old, hidebound minds, flipping between strident arrogance and looking as if they are scared out of their wits: no friends of the brave, fragile people at the cutting edge of the economy, who will just have to toil on regardless.
(6) In reality, he has broken with tradition by accepting scores of urgent questions (and there was another one on Monday, too) to fulfil his promise of making sure that parliament is not too hidebound by procedures to debate live issues of controversy.
(7) Extrapulmonary thoracic restriction ("hidebound chest") has not been previously reported to complicate EF.
(8) But I won't hold my breath in expectation that such a hidebound industry will wake up on this.
(9) For 70 years now, this network and its orchestras have been more innovative and less hidebound than their reputations deserve.
(10) Such is what passes for “accountability” in the hidebound, medieval and largely self-serving Catholic hierarchy.
(11) One of the most striking clinical findings has been scleroderma-like skin disease manifesting as diffuse fasciitis or hidebound induration.
(12) These studies indicate that the major defect responsible for the hidebound skin lesions of scleroderma may be decreased collagenase activity.
(13) Balls and his team deserve credit for moving into territory that more hidebound Labour people must find rather uncomfortable.
(14) South Africa did not return to the Olympics – or to other international sporting competition, once even the hidebound likes of rugby and cricket had cottoned on – until 1992, when apartheid fell.
(15) That is wrong.” Varoufakis, who has described himself as an “accidental economist”, is the first to say he is not hidebound by ideology.
(16) So it may be a surprise that the first signs of resistance to Trump’s program are from that famously cautious, hidebound institution, the Federal Reserve .
(17) Your audience will expect a) lots of Sky-at-20 propaganda; b) criticisms of hidebound regulators; c) mockery of ITV; d) mockery of pay-TV rivals; e) praise of the free market as on the side of consumers.
(18) "Because of where he's come from, he's not hidebound by the conventions of contemporary film-making.
(19) The big labor unions have been fighting their hidebound reputations, but with their falling membership rolls they’ve needed to recruit warm bodies.
(20) Affected neonatal calves were unable to rise and had intention tremors, hidebound skin, slightly domed calvaria, slight prognathism, and narrow palpebral fissures.