flexuren.

Brit.

/ˈflɛkʃə/, U.S.

/ˈflɛkʃər/

Etymology: < Latin flexūra, < flectĕre to bend: see -ure suffix¹.

1. The action of flexing or bending; curvature; an instance of this.

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the world > space > shape > curvature > [noun] > action or process

crookc1330

bowinga1398

bending1398

embowing1430

inflection1531

bent1567

curving1594

flexure1600

curbing1601

crooking1607

incurvation1608

1600 B. Jonson Every Man out of his Humor Induct. sig. B^v The easie flexure of his supple hammes.

1606 No-body & Some-body sig. E4 Theres those are made For flexure, let them stoope.

?1611 G. Chapman tr. Homer Iliads xxiii. 409 Eumelus made most pace With his fleet mares, and he began the flexure as we thought.

1764 T. Reid Inq. Human Mind v. §7 A new sensation, which accompanies the flexure of joints, and the swelling of muscles.

1775 S. Johnson Journey W. Islands 69 The way makes a flexure.

1827 M. Faraday Chem. Manip. ii. 25 By flexure of the beam or change in the points of support.

1870 J. Ruskin Lect. Art vi. 165 They give life by flexure of surface, not by quantity of detail.

figurative.1649 Bp. J. Taylor Great Exemplar Ep. Ded. 1 That proposition which complies with..all the flexures of its temporall ends.

2. Flexed or bent condition; ‘the form or direction in which anything is bent’ (Johnson), bent figure or posture; bending, or winding form.

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the world > space > shape > curvature > [noun]

curvation?a1425

curvity?a1425

curvaturea1460

bent1541

bend1597

curvedness1598

flexure1628

incurvation1647

compassedness1652

deflexure1656

flexion1656

curvilinearity1756

deflection1821

wind1825

inflection1837

the world > space > shape > curvature > series of curves > [noun] > winding curve(s) > quality or condition

sinuosity1597

tortuosity1603

flexuosity1611

flexure1628

sinuousness1684

windingness1730

1628 J. Earle Micro-cosmogr. xliii. sig. H2^v No Anticke screwes mens bodies into such strange flexures.

1658 J. Evelyn tr. N. de Bonnefons French Gardiner 15 Which..will oblige the trees to what flexure and forme you please.

1691 J. Ray Wisdom of God 155 The contrary flexure of the Joynts of our Arms and Legs to that of Quadrupeds.

1794 G. Adams Lect. Nat. & Exper. Philos. I. iv. 156 Muscles, by which he [man] can give..to his tongue, any kind of flexure he pleases.

1834 Good's Bk. Nature (ed. 3) I. i. 1 The details..of planting the woods, of giving flexure to the rivers, [etc.].

1875 R. D. Blackmore Alice Lorraine II. xxiii. 323 With classic flexure of luxuriant hair.

†3. A tendency to bend or be bent; a strain. Obsolete.

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the world > existence and causation > existence > state or condition > tendency > [noun]

kinda1200

disposingc1380

disposition1393

aptc1400

hieldc1400

remotiona1425

inclination?a1439

incliningc1450

taste1477

intendment1509

benta1535

swing1538

approclivity1546

aptness1548

swinge1548

drift1549

set1567

addiction1570

disposedness1583

swaya1586

leaning1587

intention1594

inflection1597

inclinableness1608

appetite1626

vogue1626

tendency1628

tendence1632

aptitude1633

gravitation1644

propension1644

biasing1645

conducement1646

flexure1652

propendency1660

tend1663

vergencya1665

pend1674

to have a way of1748

polarity1767

appetency1802

drive1885

overleaning1896

the world > space > shape > curvature > [noun] > action or process > a tendency to bend

flexure1652

1652 W. Sancroft Mod. Pol. in D'Oyly Life II. 254 There is no such equilibrious virtue, but has some flexure to one of the extremes.

1665 R. Hooke Micrographia 42 The parts of the Glass are under a kind of tension or flexure.

†4.

a. Power of bending. Const. of. Obsolete.

ΚΠ

1779 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 69 10 He..had the perfect flexure and use of his fore arm.

b. Capability of being bent; flexibility. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the world > matter > constitution of matter > softness > pliableness > [noun]

pliantnessa1398

bowablenessc1475

limberness1565

bowingness1580

pliableness1581

suppleness1584

flexibility1616

pliancy1632

flexure1651

flexility1660

pliability1725

compliancy1793

facility1853

yieldiness1857

whippiness1881

bonelessness1928

1651–3 Bp. J. Taylor Serm. for Year (1850) 154 Stiff as icicles, and without flexure as the legs of elephants.

1802 W. Paley Nat. Theol. i. 2 A flexible chain (artificially wrought for the sake of flexure).

5. concrete. A thing of bent shape; the bent part of anything (e.g. a limb, river, road); a bend, curve, turn, winding.

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the world > space > shape > curvature > [noun] > a curve

bightOE

crookingc1380

curvature?a1425

bought1519

compass1545

ply1575

reflexure1578

curve1596

circumflex1601

curb1601

flexion1607

flexure1608

round1608

sinus1615

return1626

inflection1658

curvity1705

sweep1715

tarve1848

1608 E. Topsell Hist. Serpents 115 An Angle or flexure of sixteene ribbes.

1652 F. Kirkman tr. A. Du Périer Loves Clerio & Lozia 91 Her Coif..with flexures in it for her hair to pass out most compleatly curled.

c1720 W. Gibson Farriers New Guide i. v. 64 [They] lose their fleshy Substance..as they approach the Flexure of the lower Jaw-bone.

1773 Hist. Brit. Dominions N. Amer. ii. v. §2. 295 From the hook or flexure..vessels get out to sea with difficulty.

1800 Med. & Physical Jrnl. 3 23 The lowest part of the sigmoid flexure of the colon.

1814 H. F. Cary tr. Dante Vision II. xxv. 105 Now the last flexure of our way we reach'd.

1839 W. B. Stonehouse Hist. Isle of Axholme 152 The arched entrance to the north porch, which is richly ornamented by trefoil flexures.

1869 R. Browning Ring & Bk. III. ix. 178 Her babe—that flexure of soft limbs.

1874 E. Coues Birds Northwest 688 The wing from the flexure, differs..almost or quite an inch.

6. Mathematics. The bending or curving of a line or surface. In the theory of elasticity, the bending of a surface or solid. flexure of a curve: its bending towards or from a straight line. point of contrary flexure: see contrary adj. 5d.

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the world > relative properties > number > geometry > curve > [noun] > curvature

crookedness1651

flexure1672

flexion1704

curvature1710

1672 J. Wallis Let. in S. P. Rigaud & S. J. Rigaud Corr. Sci. Men 17th Cent. (1841) (modernized text) II. 538 The figure of tangents applied to the arch stretched out into a straight line, hath no contrary flexure.

1831 D. Brewster Treat. Optics vi. 64 All the variety of caustics, with their cusps and points of contrary flexure.

1856 E. B. Denison Lect. Church Building iii. 93 Hogarth's line of beauty..is..in mathematical language, a curve of contrary flexure.

1857 W. Whewell Hist. Inductive Sci. (ed. 3) I. 79 This flexure is different at different angles.

1879 W. Thomson & P. G. Tait Treat. Nat. Philos. (new ed.) I: Pt. i. §141 Flexure stretches one side and condenses the other temporarily.

7. Geology. A bending of strata under pressure, chiefly from below.

ΘΚΠ

the world > the earth > structure of the earth > structural features > sedimentary formation > [noun] > stratum > bending

flexure1833

1833 C. Lyell Princ. Geol. III. 316 The great flexure of the secondary and tertiary beds.

1845 C. Darwin Jrnl. (ed. 2) ix. 196 The quartz rock..underwent..remarkable flexures without being shattered.

1882 A. Geikie Text-bk. Geol. vii. 915 Various types of flexure may be noticed.

Compounds

flexure-fault a fault in strata where flexure has occurred.

ΚΠ

1895 J. D. Dana Man. Geol. (ed. 4) 109 Not unfrequently a flexure changes, in one direction or the other, into a fault... Many examples of such flexure-faults have been described..from the plateaus of Colorado.

Derivatives

ˈflexured adj. [-ed suffix²] having a flexure or flexures.

ΚΠ

1881 R. D. Blackmore Christowell (1882) II. xiv. 276 The carven curves and flexured tracery of soft little ears.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1897; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

单词	flexure
释义	flexuren. Brit. /ˈflɛkʃə/, U.S. /ˈflɛkʃər/ Etymology: < Latin flexūra, < flectĕre to bend: see -ure suffix¹. 1. The action of flexing or bending; curvature; an instance of this. ΘΚΠ the world > space > shape > curvature > [noun] > action or process crookc1330 bowinga1398 bending1398 embowing1430 inflection1531 bent1567 curving1594 flexure1600 curbing1601 crooking1607 incurvation1608 1600 B. Jonson Every Man out of his Humor Induct. sig. B^v The easie flexure of his supple hammes. View more context for this quotation 1606 No-body & Some-body sig. E4 Theres those are made For flexure, let them stoope. ?1611 G. Chapman tr. Homer Iliads xxiii. 409 Eumelus made most pace With his fleet mares, and he began the flexure as we thought. 1764 T. Reid Inq. Human Mind v. §7 A new sensation, which accompanies the flexure of joints, and the swelling of muscles. 1775 S. Johnson Journey W. Islands 69 The way makes a flexure. 1827 M. Faraday Chem. Manip. ii. 25 By flexure of the beam or change in the points of support. 1870 J. Ruskin Lect. Art vi. 165 They give life by flexure of surface, not by quantity of detail. figurative.1649 Bp. J. Taylor Great Exemplar Ep. Ded. 1 That proposition which complies with..all the flexures of its temporall ends. 2. Flexed or bent condition; ‘the form or direction in which anything is bent’ (Johnson), bent figure or posture; bending, or winding form. ΘΚΠ the world > space > shape > curvature > [noun] curvation?a1425 curvity?a1425 curvaturea1460 bent1541 bend1597 curvedness1598 flexure1628 incurvation1647 compassedness1652 deflexure1656 flexion1656 curvilinearity1756 deflection1821 wind1825 inflection1837 the world > space > shape > curvature > series of curves > [noun] > winding curve(s) > quality or condition sinuosity1597 tortuosity1603 flexuosity1611 flexure1628 sinuousness1684 windingness1730 1628 J. Earle Micro-cosmogr. xliii. sig. H2^v No Anticke screwes mens bodies into such strange flexures. 1658 J. Evelyn tr. N. de Bonnefons French Gardiner 15 Which..will oblige the trees to what flexure and forme you please. 1691 J. Ray Wisdom of God 155 The contrary flexure of the Joynts of our Arms and Legs to that of Quadrupeds. 1794 G. Adams Lect. Nat. & Exper. Philos. I. iv. 156 Muscles, by which he [man] can give..to his tongue, any kind of flexure he pleases. 1834 Good's Bk. Nature (ed. 3) I. i. 1 The details..of planting the woods, of giving flexure to the rivers, [etc.]. 1875 R. D. Blackmore Alice Lorraine II. xxiii. 323 With classic flexure of luxuriant hair. †3. A tendency to bend or be bent; a strain. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > existence > state or condition > tendency > [noun] kinda1200 disposingc1380 disposition1393 aptc1400 hieldc1400 remotiona1425 inclination?a1439 incliningc1450 taste1477 intendment1509 benta1535 swing1538 approclivity1546 aptness1548 swinge1548 drift1549 set1567 addiction1570 disposedness1583 swaya1586 leaning1587 intention1594 inflection1597 inclinableness1608 appetite1626 vogue1626 tendency1628 tendence1632 aptitude1633 gravitation1644 propension1644 biasing1645 conducement1646 flexure1652 propendency1660 tend1663 vergencya1665 pend1674 to have a way of1748 polarity1767 appetency1802 drive1885 overleaning1896 the world > space > shape > curvature > [noun] > action or process > a tendency to bend flexure1652 1652 W. Sancroft Mod. Pol. in D'Oyly Life II. 254 There is no such equilibrious virtue, but has some flexure to one of the extremes. 1665 R. Hooke Micrographia 42 The parts of the Glass are under a kind of tension or flexure. †4. a. Power of bending. Const. of. Obsolete. ΚΠ 1779 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 69 10 He..had the perfect flexure and use of his fore arm. b. Capability of being bent; flexibility. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > constitution of matter > softness > pliableness > [noun] pliantnessa1398 bowablenessc1475 limberness1565 bowingness1580 pliableness1581 suppleness1584 flexibility1616 pliancy1632 flexure1651 flexility1660 pliability1725 compliancy1793 facility1853 yieldiness1857 whippiness1881 bonelessness1928 1651–3 Bp. J. Taylor Serm. for Year (1850) 154 Stiff as icicles, and without flexure as the legs of elephants. 1802 W. Paley Nat. Theol. i. 2 A flexible chain (artificially wrought for the sake of flexure). 5. concrete. A thing of bent shape; the bent part of anything (e.g. a limb, river, road); a bend, curve, turn, winding. ΘΚΠ the world > space > shape > curvature > [noun] > a curve bightOE crookingc1380 curvature?a1425 bought1519 compass1545 ply1575 reflexure1578 curve1596 circumflex1601 curb1601 flexion1607 flexure1608 round1608 sinus1615 return1626 inflection1658 curvity1705 sweep1715 tarve1848 1608 E. Topsell Hist. Serpents 115 An Angle or flexure of sixteene ribbes. 1652 F. Kirkman tr. A. Du Périer Loves Clerio & Lozia 91 Her Coif..with flexures in it for her hair to pass out most compleatly curled. c1720 W. Gibson Farriers New Guide i. v. 64 [They] lose their fleshy Substance..as they approach the Flexure of the lower Jaw-bone. 1773 Hist. Brit. Dominions N. Amer. ii. v. §2. 295 From the hook or flexure..vessels get out to sea with difficulty. 1800 Med. & Physical Jrnl. 3 23 The lowest part of the sigmoid flexure of the colon. 1814 H. F. Cary tr. Dante Vision II. xxv. 105 Now the last flexure of our way we reach'd. 1839 W. B. Stonehouse Hist. Isle of Axholme 152 The arched entrance to the north porch, which is richly ornamented by trefoil flexures. 1869 R. Browning Ring & Bk. III. ix. 178 Her babe—that flexure of soft limbs. 1874 E. Coues Birds Northwest 688 The wing from the flexure, differs..almost or quite an inch. 6. Mathematics. The bending or curving of a line or surface. In the theory of elasticity, the bending of a surface or solid. flexure of a curve: its bending towards or from a straight line. point of contrary flexure: see contrary adj. 5d. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > number > geometry > curve > [noun] > curvature crookedness1651 flexure1672 flexion1704 curvature1710 1672 J. Wallis Let. in S. P. Rigaud & S. J. Rigaud Corr. Sci. Men 17th Cent. (1841) (modernized text) II. 538 The figure of tangents applied to the arch stretched out into a straight line, hath no contrary flexure. 1831 D. Brewster Treat. Optics vi. 64 All the variety of caustics, with their cusps and points of contrary flexure. 1856 E. B. Denison Lect. Church Building iii. 93 Hogarth's line of beauty..is..in mathematical language, a curve of contrary flexure. 1857 W. Whewell Hist. Inductive Sci. (ed. 3) I. 79 This flexure is different at different angles. 1879 W. Thomson & P. G. Tait Treat. Nat. Philos. (new ed.) I: Pt. i. §141 Flexure stretches one side and condenses the other temporarily. 7. Geology. A bending of strata under pressure, chiefly from below. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > structure of the earth > structural features > sedimentary formation > [noun] > stratum > bending flexure1833 1833 C. Lyell Princ. Geol. III. 316 The great flexure of the secondary and tertiary beds. 1845 C. Darwin Jrnl. (ed. 2) ix. 196 The quartz rock..underwent..remarkable flexures without being shattered. 1882 A. Geikie Text-bk. Geol. vii. 915 Various types of flexure may be noticed. Compounds flexure-fault a fault in strata where flexure has occurred. ΚΠ 1895 J. D. Dana Man. Geol. (ed. 4) 109 Not unfrequently a flexure changes, in one direction or the other, into a fault... Many examples of such flexure-faults have been described..from the plateaus of Colorado. Derivatives ˈflexured adj. [-ed suffix²] having a flexure or flexures. ΚΠ 1881 R. D. Blackmore Christowell (1882) II. xiv. 276 The carven curves and flexured tracery of soft little ears. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1897; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < n.1600
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