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FlexibleFlexible Flex"i*ble, a. [L. flexibilis: cf. F. flexible.]
1. Capable of being flexed or bent; admitting of being
turned, bowed, or twisted, without breaking; pliable;
yielding to pressure; not stiff or brittle.
When the splitting wind Makes flexible the knees of
knotted oaks. --Shak.
2. Willing or ready to yield to the influence of others; not
invincibly rigid or obstinate; tractable; manageable;
ductile; easy and compliant; wavering.
Phocion was a man of great severity, and no ways
flexible to the will of the people. --Bacon.
Women are soft, mild, pitiful, and flexible. --Shak.
3. Capable or being adapted or molded; plastic,; as, a
flexible language.
This was a principle more flexible to their purpose.
--Rogers.
Syn: Pliant; pliable; supple; tractable; manageable; ductile;
obsequious; inconstant; wavering. -- Flex"i*ble*ness,
n. -- Flex"i*bly, adv. Flexible sandstoneSandstone Sand"stone`, n.
A rock made of sand more or less firmly united. Common or
siliceous sandstone consists mainly of quartz sand.
Note: Different names are applied to the various kinds of
sandstone according to their composition; as, granitic,
argillaceous, micaceous, etc.
Flexible sandstone (Min.), the finer-grained variety of
itacolumite, which on account of the scales of mica in the
lamination is quite flexible.
Red sandstone, a name given to two extensive series of
British rocks in which red sandstones predominate, one
below, and the other above, the coal measures. These were
formerly known as the Old and the New Red Sandstone
respectively, and the former name is still retained for
the group preceding the Coal and referred to the Devonian
age, but the term New Red Sandstone is now little used,
some of the strata being regarded as Permian and the
remained as Triassic. See the Chart of Geology. FlexiblenessFlexible Flex"i*ble, a. [L. flexibilis: cf. F. flexible.]
1. Capable of being flexed or bent; admitting of being
turned, bowed, or twisted, without breaking; pliable;
yielding to pressure; not stiff or brittle.
When the splitting wind Makes flexible the knees of
knotted oaks. --Shak.
2. Willing or ready to yield to the influence of others; not
invincibly rigid or obstinate; tractable; manageable;
ductile; easy and compliant; wavering.
Phocion was a man of great severity, and no ways
flexible to the will of the people. --Bacon.
Women are soft, mild, pitiful, and flexible. --Shak.
3. Capable or being adapted or molded; plastic,; as, a
flexible language.
This was a principle more flexible to their purpose.
--Rogers.
Syn: Pliant; pliable; supple; tractable; manageable; ductile;
obsequious; inconstant; wavering. -- Flex"i*ble*ness,
n. -- Flex"i*bly, adv. InflexibleInflexible In*flex"i*ble, a. [L. inflexiblis: cf. F.
inflexible. See In- not, and Flexible.]
1. Not capable of being bent; stiff; rigid; firm; unyielding.
2. Firm in will or purpose; not to be turned, changed, or
altered; resolute; determined; unyieding; inexorable;
stubborn.
``Inflexibleas steel.' --Miltom.
Amanof upright and inflexibletemper . . . can
overcome all private fear. --Addison.
3. Incapable of change; unalterable; immutable.
The nature of things is inflexible. --I. Watts.
Syn: -- Unbending; unyielding; rigid; inexorable;
pertinacious; obstinate; stubborn; unrelenting. Inflexibleness
Inflexibleness In*flex"i*ble*ness, n.
The quality or state of being inflexible; inflexibility;
rigidity; firmness.
Nexible
Nexible Nex"i*ble, a. [L. nexibilis, from nectere, nexum, to
bind.]
That may be knit together. [R.]
Unflexible
Unflexible Un*flex"i*ble, a.
Inflexible.
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