The word 'flex' can be used in written English.
It is usually used to mean to show off or to display something, usually strength or skills. For example, "He was flexing his muscles to show off how strong he was."
The wearables market is set to bring in about $14bn £8.7bnn) in 2014 (estimated to rise to $70bn by 2024) and remains a key area of focus for many in the technology world as the way consumers use technology continues to flex and contract.
With such a poor showing from traditional TV, Netflix and Amazon Prime are able to flex their muscles like never before.
In another sense, though, simply by being so candid about her determination to flex whatever muscle she has after May, she has made a significant departure.
Smacking is evidently distinct from outright physical abuse, but there is evidence that, among some parents, the use of whips, belts and electrical flex is considered a perfectly acceptable means of "correction".
Other analysts suggested that Ashley was never interested in a payout and had simply enjoyed showing certain elements within the City that he could flex his muscles and win a bonus scheme if he so wished.
When your child hunches over, they keep their head high and flex their neck, holding that position for some time.
One of the most common reasons for that happening is that people plantar-flex when they plant their foot each time on the floor, so you are sort of a bit "toey".
Car companies are equipping vehicles with "flex-fuel" capability, so they can run on either petrol or ethanol blends.All biofuels cost more than petrol, but some are egregiously wasteful.
The government should also require most new cars to be flex-fuel vehicles (FFVs), able to use blends of up to 85% ethanol.
From 2000 to 2010, under the flex-permitting system that the EPA is so disapproving of, Texas saw a 22% reduction in ozone and a 46% decrease in nitrogen-oxide emissions.Why would the EPA seek to replace a system under which air quality was improving?
And right now, ethanol is up to 55% cheaper at the pump in Brazil than regular gasoline.Brazilians are the beneficiaries of an automotive revolution: "flex-fuel" cars that run as readily on ethanol as on regular petrol were introduced in 2003, and have since grabbed nearly two-thirds of the market.
