Banner vs. Flex — What's the Difference?

A banner can be a flag or other piece of cloth bearing a symbol, logo, slogan or other message. A flag whose design is the same as the shield in a coat of arms (but usually in a square or rectangular shape) is called a banner of arms.

(with reference to a limb or joint) bend or become bent

A long strip of cloth bearing a slogan or design, carried in a demonstration or procession or hung in a public place

Relating to or denoting a practice of burying a corpse with the legs drawn up under the chin.

A heading or advertisement appearing on a web page in the form of a bar, column, or box

A flexible insulated cable used for carrying electric current to an appliance.

Excellent; outstanding

To bend (something pliant or elastic).

A piece of cloth attached to a staff and used as a standard by a monarch, military commander, or knight.

To bend (a joint).

The flag of a nation, state, or army.

To bend (a joint) repeatedly.

A piece of cloth bearing a motto or legend, as of a club.

To contract (a muscle, for example).

A headline spanning the width of a newspaper page.

To move by muscular control

A rectangular space with text or graphics, especially an advertisement, running across the top of a webpage or other online document.

To exhibit or show off the strength of

(Botany) See standard.

To bend

Unusually good; outstanding

Chiefly British Flexible insulated electric cord.

To supply with banners.

The act or an instance of flexing; a bending.

To give a banner headline to (a story or item) in a newspaper.

Flexibility

A flag or standard used by a military commander, monarch or nation.

(uncountable) Flexibility, pliancy.

(by extension) The military unit under such a flag or standard.

(countable) An act of flexing.

(by extension) A military or administrative subdivision.

Any flexible insulated electrical wiring.

Any large sign, especially when made of soft material or fabric.

(uncountable) Flexible ductwork, typically flexible plastic over a metal wire coil to shape a tube.

A large piece of cloth with a slogan, motto, or emblem carried in a demonstration or other procession or suspended in some conspicuous place.

A point of inflection.

A cause or purpose; a campaign or movement.

The act of flaunting something; something one considers impressive.

(journalism) The title of a newspaper as printed on its front page; the nameplate; masthead.

To bend something.

A type of advertisement on a web page or on television, usually taking the form of a graphic or animation above or alongside the content.

(transitive) To repeatedly bend one of one's joints.

(heraldry) The principal standard of a knight.

(transitive) To move part of the body using one's muscles.

A type of administrative division in Inner Mongolia and Tuva, made during the Qing dynasty; at that time, Outer Mongolia and part of Xinjiang were also divided into banners.

(intransitive) To tighten the muscles for display of size or strength.

One who bans something.

To flaunt one's superiority.

Exceptional; very good.

To bend; as, to flex the arm.

(transitive) To adorn with a banner.

Flax.

To display as a banner headline.

The act of flexing;

A kind of flag attached to a spear or pike by a crosspiece, and used by a chief as his standard in battle.

Contract;

A large piece of silk or other cloth, with a device or motto, extended on a crosspiece, and borne in a procession, or suspended in some conspicuous place.

Exhibit the strength of;

Any flag or standard; as, the star-spangled banner.

Form a curve;

Long strip of cloth for decoration or advertising

Bend a joint;

A newspaper headline that runs across the full page

Cause (a plastic object) to assume a crooked or angular form;

Unusually good; outstanding;