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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Acute :: Acute (v. t.) To give an acute sound to; as, he acutes his rising inflection too much..
Inflection :: Inflection (n.) Any change or modification in the pitch or tone of the voice.
Homoioptoton :: Homoioptoton (n.) A figure in which the several parts of a sentence end with the same case, or inflection generally..
Decline :: Decline (v. t.) To inflect, or rehearse in order the changes of grammatical form of; as, to decline a noun or an adjective..
Termination :: Termination (n.) The ending of a word; a final syllable or letter; the part added to a stem in inflection.
Comparison :: Comparison (n.) The modification, by inflection or otherwise, which the adjective and adverb undergo to denote degrees of quality or quantity; as, little, less, least, are examples of comparison..
Aptotic :: Aptotic (a.) Pertaining to, or characterized by, aptotes; uninflected; as, aptotic languages..
Inflection :: Inflection (n.) A departure from the monotone, or reciting note, in chanting..
Sing :: Sing (v. i.) To utter sounds with musical inflections or melodious modulations of voice, as fancy may dictate, or according to the notes of a song or tune, or of a given part (as alto, tenor, etc.) in a chorus or concerted piece..
Particle :: Particle (n.) A subordinate word that is never inflected (a preposition, conjunction, interjection); or a word that can not be used except in compositions; as, ward in backward, ly in lovely..
Deflection :: Deflection (n.) A deviation of the rays of light toward the surface of an opaque body; inflection; diffraction.
Flexion :: Flexion (n.) Syntactical change of form of words, as by declension or conjugation; inflection..
Tense :: Tense (n.) One of the forms which a verb takes by inflection or by adding auxiliary words, so as to indicate the time of the action or event signified; the modification which verbs undergo for the indication of time..
Inflection :: Inflection (n.) The act of inflecting, or the state of being inflected..
Parisyllabical :: Parisyllabical (a.) Having the same number of syllables in all its inflections.
Tone :: Tone (n.) Accent, or inflection or modulation of the voice, as adapted to express emotion or passion..
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..
Indecinable :: Indecinable (a.) Not declinable; not varied by inflective terminations; as, nihil (nothing), in Latin, is an indeclinable noun..
Stem :: Stem (n.) The part of an inflected word which remains unchanged (except by euphonic variations) throughout a given inflection; theme; base.
Declension :: Declension (n.) Inflection of nouns, adjectives, etc., according to the grammatical cases..
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