Definition of inflect

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Inflect (v. t.) To turn from a direct line or course; to bend; to incline, to deflect; to curve; to bow..

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Accidence :: Accidence (n.) The accidents, of inflections of words; the rudiments of grammar..
Inflection :: Inflection (n.) A departure from the monotone, or reciting note, in chanting..
Etymology :: Etymology (n.) That part of grammar which relates to the changes in the form of the words in a language; inflection.
Inflect :: Inflect (v. t.) To modulate, as the voice..
Inflective :: Inflective (a.) Capable of, or pertaining to, inflection; deflecting; as, the inflective quality of the air..
Inflectional :: Inflectional (a.) Of or pertaining to inflection; having, or characterized by, inflection..
Inflective :: Inflective (a.) Inflectional; characterized by variation, or change in form, to mark case, tense, etc.; subject to inflection..
Masculine :: Masculine (a.) Having the inflections of, or construed with, words pertaining especially to male beings, as distinguished from feminine and neuter. See Gender..
Inflect :: Inflect (v. t.) To vary, as a noun or a verb in its terminations; to decline, as a noun or adjective, or to conjugate, as a verb..
Conjugation :: Conjugation (n.) The act of conjugating a verb or giving in order its various parts and inflections.
Voice :: Voice (n.) A particular mode of inflecting or conjugating verbs, or a particular form of a verb, by means of which is indicated the relation of the subject of the verb to the action which the verb expresses..
Compare :: Compare (v. t.) To inflect according to the degrees of comparison; to state positive, comparative, and superlative forms of; as, most adjectives of one syllable are compared by affixing - er and -est to the positive form; as, black, blacker, blackest; those of more than one syllable are usually compared by prefixing more and most, or less and least, to the positive; as, beautiful, more beautiful, most beautiful..
Inflexion :: Inflexion (n.) Inflection.
Declension :: Declension (n.) The form of the inflection of a word declined by cases; as, the first or the second declension of nouns, adjectives, etc..
Declinable :: Declinable (a.) Capable of being declined; admitting of declension or inflection; as, declinable parts of speech..
Conjugate :: Conjugate (v. t.) To inflect (a verb), or give in order the forms which it assumed in its several voices, moods, tenses, numbers, and persons..
Inflection :: Inflection (n.) The variation or change which words undergo to mark case, gender, number, comparison, tense, person, mood, voice, etc..
Termination :: Termination (n.) The ending of a word; a final syllable or letter; the part added to a stem in inflection.
Deflection :: Deflection (n.) A deviation of the rays of light toward the surface of an opaque body; inflection; diffraction.
Noninflectional :: Noninflectional (a.) Not admitting of, or characterized by, inflection..
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