I. verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
flex your muscles (= bend your arm muscles so that people can see how strong you are )
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He was lifting weights and flexing his muscles.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
finger
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The picture focused upon the questing, flexing fingers .
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As soon as Lexandro flexed a finger , his power gauntlet twitched in rapport.
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She flexed her fingers , trying to become accustomed to the power-assisted joints.
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She let blood in, and flexed the fingers .
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Connelly flexed his fingers and toes and felt renewed pain, a feeling of weightlessness.
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Jeane Russell held her hand, dainty but thick-wristed, up, and flexed her fingers .
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Jeane Russell flexed her fingers again.
foot
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Lying as shown, flex the foot and swing the leg forwards and backwards 5 times.
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He flexed his feet , feeling his toes in his socks.
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Raise your right leg, flexing the foot so that your toes are pointed toward the front.
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Remain in the same position and, keeping the top leg straight, flex the foot .
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Now begin to flex your feet .
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Keeping the top leg straight, flex the foot and swing the leg forwards and backwards 5 times.
hand
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He played scales, flexing his surgeon-sculptor's hands .
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He flexed his hand and stroked a talon across his own forearm.
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Now Rostov was amazed to see the Khan flex his hand so that the nails extended like claws.
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Then he flexed his hand again, and the claws retracted with a flash of silver.
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Still with your arms straight, flex your hands and cross your arms low in front of you, hands together.
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Stretch your arms out to the sides, flex both hands , and draw small, quick tight circles round one way.
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The big white creaks upright and stands flexing his hands .
leg
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Roll over again and swing the top leg forwards with foot flexed .
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Raise your right leg , flexing the foot so that your toes are pointed toward the front.
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Remain in the same position and, keeping the top leg straight, flex the foot.
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Have your partner sit down on the mat, extending one leg and flexing the other.
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Their leg joints flex only slightly in the front-rear direction but exceedingly well at right angles to this.
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Keeping the top leg straight, flex the foot and swing the leg forwards and backwards 5 times.
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Next it stretched its back legs , flexing the abnormally long toes that ended in big lizard-like nails.
muscle
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His muscles flexed , strong, strong.
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Isabel saw the powerful muscles of his shoulders flex beneath his tunic as he controlled whatever emotion was driving him.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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I just hoped that all that flexing and twisting of the hull would not burst the 3, 000 rattan lashings.
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Lying as shown, flex the foot and swing the top leg forwards and backwards 5 times.
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She let blood in, and flexed the fingers.
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She watched him raise one hand to rub the nape of his neck, then flex his shoulder muscles.
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The arms of the dead warrior seemed to flex , moved by heat, twisted by the consuming flame.
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The former is the inability to extend the knee completely when the thigh is flexed.
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The raft had to flex to survive, but there was a serious penalty: the constant movement produced tremendous abrasion.
II. noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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For the younger and fitter elderly person, though, the long flex is a very good idea.
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It's safe but you need to have a firm grip to cut a 13-amp flex .
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Six amp three-core mains flex is used for the mains input which connects straight to the p.c.b.
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Suddenly Donald was tied to his chair with the flex from the lamp, the plug still attached.
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The prosecution alleges Hammond attacked the girl with his hands, fists, a ruler and the flex from an electric kettle.
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The single framed print hanging on the wall on the first landing, the dead lightbulbs suspended pointlessly from their dusty flexes.