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单词 inflected
释义 inflected, ppl. a.|ɪnˈflɛktɪd|
[f. inflect v. + -ed1.]
1. Bent or curved; bent inwards.
1646Sir T. Browne Pseud. Ep. iii. i. 105 Galen..commends unto us..not to lye directly, or at length, but somewhat inflected, that the muscles may be at rest.1796H. Brougham in Phil. Trans. LXXXVI. 228 The angle..which the inflected ray makes with the line drawn [etc.].1847Lewes Hist. Philos. (1867) I. 82, I here sit in an inflected position.1870Rolleston Anim. Life Introd. 48 The angle of the lower jaw is almost always inflected.1875Darwin Insectiv. Pl. vii. 165 All the tentacles except three inflected or sub-inflected.
2. Gram. Of a word: Varied in the terminations to express varied grammatical relations. Of a language: Characterized by grammatical inflexion.
1775in Ash.1865Tylor Early Hist. Man. iv. 64 Inflected languages such as Latin.1871Earle Philol. Eng. Tongue §30 The essence of an inflected language is, to express by modifications of form that which an uninflected language expresses by arrangements of words.
3. inflected arch: an arch having the curve of its flanks reversed near the crown, so as to terminate in an acute angle. (Knight Dict. Mech. 1875).
Hence inˈflectedness, the state or condition of being inflected.
1811–31Bentham Univ. Gram. Introd., Wks. 1843 VIII. 341 Sparingly inflectedness and copiously inflectedness, as applied to language.
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