Definition of inflect in English:

inflect

verb ɪnˈflɛktɪnˈflɛkt

[with object]

1Grammar
Change the form of (a word) to express a particular grammatical function or attribute, typically tense, mood, person, number, and gender.
Arabic verbs are inflected for person, number, and gender
Example sentencesExamples
- Bantu languages were praised for their terminations at the beginning, so that the words are inflected, conjugated, or defined by means of a system of prefixes.
- There are two present-tense verbs here, both inflected for plural agreement.
- Pronouns such as my are not adjectives either; they are pronouns, genitively inflected, functioning as determiners.
- A mantra is a kind of prayer that contains the name of God that is inflected grammatically in the dative case.
- By contrast, the final verb is not marked for switch-reference but is fully inflected for such categories, and this inflection is relevant to the whole clause chain.
1. 1.1no object (of a word or language) undergo inflection.
  all of these words inflect irregularly
  Example sentencesExamples
  Languages can be classified into one of three types: isolating or noninflective, agglutinating, and inflecting.
  There's an abbreviation of the name, a checkbox for genders, another one for classes, and information about how the lexical type inflects.
  For example, they do not inflect for past tense, and with a third-person singular subject they do not take the characteristic s inflection.
  Chinese is monosyllabic, Japanese is polysyllabic; Japanese verbs, adjectives and adverbs inflect, whereas they don't in Chinese; and Japanese has a system of postpositions that Chinese doesn't.
  We listed a few words that we claimed were just exceptions to the claim that monosyllabic adjectives inflect, and we included wrong on that list.
2Vary the intonation or pitch of (the voice), especially to express mood or feeling.
his slight voice, inflected with a token touch of grit
Example sentencesExamples
- Are the words not only correct, but also pronounced accurately and clearly, and are they inflected appropriately and expressively?
- He is scornful of modern gurus, or gu-RUS as he mockingly inflects the word, and tells tour pros, ‘If they can't beat you, they've got nothing to teach you.’
- Stevens has attained better command of his limited vocal range, inflecting richly within it instead of pushing against it: ‘We had more fun when we were poor.’
- The voice on the tape slightly inflects the word ‘or’ so many children answered ‘brownie’ instead of the correct answer, ‘yes.’
- Newspapers and magazines, once independent witnesses, are now mere conduits for the single, approved and flawlessly inflected voice booming from the apex of the pyramid of power.
- We don't hear that often nowadays, nor a native Italian who inflects the words of a Verdi opera so beautifully and naturally.
- This time, she spoke in English inflected with a German accent so that Loren could hear what she had to say.
- The postcingulum has a similar, but reversed pattern: it leaves the hypocone posteriorly, swings labially, is inflected sharply anterolabially, and ends at the posterior spur lingual to the intermediate row of cusps.
- She kept her voice clear, the words precisely pronounced and inflected.
- ‘Odd seeing Mr. Van Doren here,’ Ronald says, his deep voice inflected with curiosity.
- I did not know whether it was her abnormal dress, her desire for death, or her oddly inflected voice but this girl was something new.
- If Eddie's voice (as both voice-over and direct speech) is clear and inflected with humour, not so the official speech of the forces assembled against him.
- One thing that on-line communication doesn't give is a sense of how people's voices inflect what they say with particular meanings that you don't always pick up when someone is writing.
1. 2.1 Vary the pitch of (a musical note).
  Example sentencesExamples
  If Davis was unable to communicate his enthusiasm for this composer to his vocal forces, he did manage to draw warmly inflected playing from the orchestra.
  Pletnev seems eager to convince us that these are very important works, and so everything is inflected, almost to the point of fussiness.
  But even performers who ‘adhere to the score’ greatly inflect their readings by personal, pianistic, musical and emotional modifications.
  As the patterns of notes or letters are inflected, moments of fulfillment or stability are perceived.
  Taking a whirlwind tempo, as he did, is one thing; but failing to inflect the smaller motivic units that comprise it is quite another.
  Synonyms
  adjust, change the tone of, vary
2. 2.2 Influence or colour (music or writing) in tone or style.
  her analysis may have been inflected by the upsurge of feminism
  in combination blues-inflected bar rock
  Example sentencesExamples
  This is not to insist that a commitment to continuity of care, as any aspect of parenting, is merely ‘natural’ rather than inflected by the cultural values and material conditions.
  Leonard's story is more obviously politically inflected than Virginia's, but in their different ways both reveal how that which is repulsive to the socialized symbolic self is already a fundamental component of its identity.
  But I believe the historical conjunction that gave rise to accountability continues to inflect and propel it.
  Concepts like martyrdom, which might seem to be shared with Christianity, are quite differently inflected, because based on a much more ready acceptance of the way of the world than on world rejection.
  In some cases they could just as easily be in black and white for all the viewer may recall, and they are almost without exception inflected with memorable, sometimes exaggerated effects.
  Now at the beginning of the twenty first century, healthcare and architecture are again inflecting each other in interesting ways.
  That is, the approach I have described as Curtin's might be inflected by American practices, such as those at Iowa.
  Clearly inflected by the more profound nuances of Japanese tradition, Pawson's spirit of sensuous rationalism meets such pragmatic challenges head on.
  Work that is less inflected than Marasela's may elicit the same doubt.
  The word professional is almost always negatively inflected for Woolf, whether it denotes the academic credentials that were historically denied to women or an excessive emphasis on public perception and financial success.
  Much of this materiel is, then, inflected by the digital.
  There are indications, however, that a new generation is starting to find its own voice, tempered and inflected by more exotic influences and general intellectual curiosity.
  There are brief mentions of how Washington's punch resulted in him receiving death threats, many of them inflected with racial epithets.
  For it is through words that our understanding of things get even more complicated, inflected, and obscured as the processes of representation and seeing run their course.
  The reception of Brooks's work through 1968 clearly demonstrates the extent to which a publisher's imprint inflects both the way a work is valued and the way it is understood.
  Thus the discourse of American studies had been inflected from the beginning by the doctrinal ‘doubleness’ of the adversary culture.
  But in fact, the spaces are defined by walls inflected in both plan and section, so although the spaces seem right for Aasen's books and desk and chairs, they emphasize their nature, as a conventional orthogonal layout could not.
  This is American pop culture - its film stars and sports figures - inflected through Pfeiffer's subtle and not-so-subtle messages, in American terms, about racism, heroism, irony and loss.
  Memory inflects his every gesture, and silence in his work assumes fullness and palpability.
  So begins the Iliad, and then we get, for twenty-five performance hours, a remarkably precise calibration of the different speeds at which time can flow when inflected through the experience of fury.
3technical Bend or deflect (something), especially inwards.
particles readily inflect, deflect and jostle one another
Example sentencesExamples
- The compression of the grids, together with their shifting scales, created urgent perspectival illusions that were immediately cancelled by richly inflected surfaces and complex relationships of unexpected colors.
- DiDonna inflects the field between the two columns with an ink hatching of fine strokes that infiltrates the column to the right.
- As the moisture decreases, the evaporation curve inflects at a point referred to herein as the peat evaporation inflection point.
- At the west end, off Europa Boulevard (the main thoroughfare of the east side of the Expo site), the glass screen is inflected.
- The profiled dog establishes the plane of the canvas, opening up space for the figures, who are otherwise turned into eloquent shapes by the edge of the canvas and the minimally inflected expanse of the Place.
- Each milieu affects the space, bends it, inflects it, shapes it.
- Working by consensus decision making, the group generated a design that splays in both plan and section, inflecting the structure outward while focusing inward to the place of ceremony.
- The angular process of the dentary is inflected medially in almost all marsupials.
- It's difficult to decide, too, whether the resulting structures are acutely inflected paintings or polychrome sculptures.
- Ojile's work has long had a musing, meditative quality; these layered depths and inflected surfaces extend a particularly compelling invitation to ponder both the known and the unknowable.
- Indeed, he continued, the answer resided in Newtonian physics: when Hopkinson held the textile up to the street lamp, the material inflected the light rays in a manner that made the threads appear thicker and the dark bars immobile.
Synonyms
bend, turn, loop, wind, meander, undulate, snake, spiral, twist, coil, curl

Derivatives

inflective

adjective ɪnˈflɛktɪvɪnˈflɛktɪv

He has a majestic voice that is supple and inflective while still being just a bit gritty.

Origin

Late Middle English (in sense 3): from Latin inflectere, from in- 'into' + flectere 'to bend'.

Rhymes

affect, bisect, bull-necked, collect, confect, connect, correct, defect, deflect, deject, detect, direct, effect, eject, elect, erect, expect, infect, inject, inspect, interconnect, interject, intersect, misdirect, neglect, object, perfect, project, prospect, protect, reflect, reject, respect, resurrect, sect, select, subject, suspect, transect, unchecked, Utrecht

Definition of inflect in US English:

inflect

verbinˈflektɪnˈflɛkt

[with object]

1Grammar
Change the form of (a word) to express a particular grammatical function or attribute, typically tense, mood, person, number, case, and gender.
Arabic verbs are inflected for person, number, and gender
Example sentencesExamples
- Pronouns such as my are not adjectives either; they are pronouns, genitively inflected, functioning as determiners.
- A mantra is a kind of prayer that contains the name of God that is inflected grammatically in the dative case.
- There are two present-tense verbs here, both inflected for plural agreement.
- Bantu languages were praised for their terminations at the beginning, so that the words are inflected, conjugated, or defined by means of a system of prefixes.
- By contrast, the final verb is not marked for switch-reference but is fully inflected for such categories, and this inflection is relevant to the whole clause chain.
1. 1.1no object (of a word or a language containing such words) undergo inflection.
  all of these words inflect irregularly
  Example sentencesExamples
  For example, they do not inflect for past tense, and with a third-person singular subject they do not take the characteristic s inflection.
  There's an abbreviation of the name, a checkbox for genders, another one for classes, and information about how the lexical type inflects.
  Languages can be classified into one of three types: isolating or noninflective, agglutinating, and inflecting.
  We listed a few words that we claimed were just exceptions to the claim that monosyllabic adjectives inflect, and we included wrong on that list.
  Chinese is monosyllabic, Japanese is polysyllabic; Japanese verbs, adjectives and adverbs inflect, whereas they don't in Chinese; and Japanese has a system of postpositions that Chinese doesn't.
2Vary the intonation or pitch of (the voice), especially to express mood or feeling.
his slight voice, inflected with a token touch of grit
Example sentencesExamples
- She kept her voice clear, the words precisely pronounced and inflected.
- Newspapers and magazines, once independent witnesses, are now mere conduits for the single, approved and flawlessly inflected voice booming from the apex of the pyramid of power.
- Are the words not only correct, but also pronounced accurately and clearly, and are they inflected appropriately and expressively?
- Stevens has attained better command of his limited vocal range, inflecting richly within it instead of pushing against it: ‘We had more fun when we were poor.’
- The postcingulum has a similar, but reversed pattern: it leaves the hypocone posteriorly, swings labially, is inflected sharply anterolabially, and ends at the posterior spur lingual to the intermediate row of cusps.
- One thing that on-line communication doesn't give is a sense of how people's voices inflect what they say with particular meanings that you don't always pick up when someone is writing.
- The voice on the tape slightly inflects the word ‘or’ so many children answered ‘brownie’ instead of the correct answer, ‘yes.’
- He is scornful of modern gurus, or gu-RUS as he mockingly inflects the word, and tells tour pros, ‘If they can't beat you, they've got nothing to teach you.’
- We don't hear that often nowadays, nor a native Italian who inflects the words of a Verdi opera so beautifully and naturally.
- If Eddie's voice (as both voice-over and direct speech) is clear and inflected with humour, not so the official speech of the forces assembled against him.
- I did not know whether it was her abnormal dress, her desire for death, or her oddly inflected voice but this girl was something new.
- ‘Odd seeing Mr. Van Doren here,’ Ronald says, his deep voice inflected with curiosity.
- This time, she spoke in English inflected with a German accent so that Loren could hear what she had to say.
1. 2.1 Vary the pitch of (a musical note).
  Example sentencesExamples
  But even performers who ‘adhere to the score’ greatly inflect their readings by personal, pianistic, musical and emotional modifications.
  Taking a whirlwind tempo, as he did, is one thing; but failing to inflect the smaller motivic units that comprise it is quite another.
  Pletnev seems eager to convince us that these are very important works, and so everything is inflected, almost to the point of fussiness.
  If Davis was unable to communicate his enthusiasm for this composer to his vocal forces, he did manage to draw warmly inflected playing from the orchestra.
  As the patterns of notes or letters are inflected, moments of fulfillment or stability are perceived.
  Synonyms
  adjust, change the tone of, vary
2. 2.2 Influence or color (music or writing) in tone or style.
  her analysis may have been inflected by the upsurge of feminism
  in combination blues-inflected bar rock
  Example sentencesExamples
  Thus the discourse of American studies had been inflected from the beginning by the doctrinal ‘doubleness’ of the adversary culture.
  Work that is less inflected than Marasela's may elicit the same doubt.
  There are brief mentions of how Washington's punch resulted in him receiving death threats, many of them inflected with racial epithets.
  Clearly inflected by the more profound nuances of Japanese tradition, Pawson's spirit of sensuous rationalism meets such pragmatic challenges head on.
  This is not to insist that a commitment to continuity of care, as any aspect of parenting, is merely ‘natural’ rather than inflected by the cultural values and material conditions.
  Now at the beginning of the twenty first century, healthcare and architecture are again inflecting each other in interesting ways.
  The word professional is almost always negatively inflected for Woolf, whether it denotes the academic credentials that were historically denied to women or an excessive emphasis on public perception and financial success.
  Concepts like martyrdom, which might seem to be shared with Christianity, are quite differently inflected, because based on a much more ready acceptance of the way of the world than on world rejection.
  So begins the Iliad, and then we get, for twenty-five performance hours, a remarkably precise calibration of the different speeds at which time can flow when inflected through the experience of fury.
  That is, the approach I have described as Curtin's might be inflected by American practices, such as those at Iowa.
  This is American pop culture - its film stars and sports figures - inflected through Pfeiffer's subtle and not-so-subtle messages, in American terms, about racism, heroism, irony and loss.
  Leonard's story is more obviously politically inflected than Virginia's, but in their different ways both reveal how that which is repulsive to the socialized symbolic self is already a fundamental component of its identity.
  Much of this materiel is, then, inflected by the digital.
  There are indications, however, that a new generation is starting to find its own voice, tempered and inflected by more exotic influences and general intellectual curiosity.
  In some cases they could just as easily be in black and white for all the viewer may recall, and they are almost without exception inflected with memorable, sometimes exaggerated effects.
  But in fact, the spaces are defined by walls inflected in both plan and section, so although the spaces seem right for Aasen's books and desk and chairs, they emphasize their nature, as a conventional orthogonal layout could not.
  For it is through words that our understanding of things get even more complicated, inflected, and obscured as the processes of representation and seeing run their course.
  But I believe the historical conjunction that gave rise to accountability continues to inflect and propel it.
  Memory inflects his every gesture, and silence in his work assumes fullness and palpability.
  The reception of Brooks's work through 1968 clearly demonstrates the extent to which a publisher's imprint inflects both the way a work is valued and the way it is understood.
3technical Bend or deflect (something), especially inward.
particles readily inflect, deflect and jostle one another
Example sentencesExamples
- Each milieu affects the space, bends it, inflects it, shapes it.
- Ojile's work has long had a musing, meditative quality; these layered depths and inflected surfaces extend a particularly compelling invitation to ponder both the known and the unknowable.
- Working by consensus decision making, the group generated a design that splays in both plan and section, inflecting the structure outward while focusing inward to the place of ceremony.
- Indeed, he continued, the answer resided in Newtonian physics: when Hopkinson held the textile up to the street lamp, the material inflected the light rays in a manner that made the threads appear thicker and the dark bars immobile.
- The angular process of the dentary is inflected medially in almost all marsupials.
- At the west end, off Europa Boulevard (the main thoroughfare of the east side of the Expo site), the glass screen is inflected.
- The compression of the grids, together with their shifting scales, created urgent perspectival illusions that were immediately cancelled by richly inflected surfaces and complex relationships of unexpected colors.
- As the moisture decreases, the evaporation curve inflects at a point referred to herein as the peat evaporation inflection point.
- The profiled dog establishes the plane of the canvas, opening up space for the figures, who are otherwise turned into eloquent shapes by the edge of the canvas and the minimally inflected expanse of the Place.
- It's difficult to decide, too, whether the resulting structures are acutely inflected paintings or polychrome sculptures.
- DiDonna inflects the field between the two columns with an ink hatching of fine strokes that infiltrates the column to the right.
Synonyms
bend, turn, loop, wind, meander, undulate, snake, spiral, twist, coil, curl

Origin

Late Middle English (in inflect (sense 3)): from Latin inflectere, from in- ‘into’ + flectere ‘to bend’.

单词	inflect
释义	Definition of inflect in English: inflect verb ɪnˈflɛktɪnˈflɛkt [with object] 1Grammar Change the form of (a word) to express a particular grammatical function or attribute, typically tense, mood, person, number, and gender. Arabic verbs are inflected for person, number, and gender Example sentencesExamples Bantu languages were praised for their terminations at the beginning, so that the words are inflected, conjugated, or defined by means of a system of prefixes. There are two present-tense verbs here, both inflected for plural agreement. Pronouns such as my are not adjectives either; they are pronouns, genitively inflected, functioning as determiners. A mantra is a kind of prayer that contains the name of God that is inflected grammatically in the dative case. By contrast, the final verb is not marked for switch-reference but is fully inflected for such categories, and this inflection is relevant to the whole clause chain. 1.1no object (of a word or language) undergo inflection. all of these words inflect irregularly Example sentencesExamples Languages can be classified into one of three types: isolating or noninflective, agglutinating, and inflecting. There's an abbreviation of the name, a checkbox for genders, another one for classes, and information about how the lexical type inflects. For example, they do not inflect for past tense, and with a third-person singular subject they do not take the characteristic s inflection. Chinese is monosyllabic, Japanese is polysyllabic; Japanese verbs, adjectives and adverbs inflect, whereas they don't in Chinese; and Japanese has a system of postpositions that Chinese doesn't. We listed a few words that we claimed were just exceptions to the claim that monosyllabic adjectives inflect, and we included wrong on that list. 2Vary the intonation or pitch of (the voice), especially to express mood or feeling. his slight voice, inflected with a token touch of grit Example sentencesExamples Are the words not only correct, but also pronounced accurately and clearly, and are they inflected appropriately and expressively? He is scornful of modern gurus, or gu-RUS as he mockingly inflects the word, and tells tour pros, ‘If they can't beat you, they've got nothing to teach you.’ Stevens has attained better command of his limited vocal range, inflecting richly within it instead of pushing against it: ‘We had more fun when we were poor.’ The voice on the tape slightly inflects the word ‘or’ so many children answered ‘brownie’ instead of the correct answer, ‘yes.’ Newspapers and magazines, once independent witnesses, are now mere conduits for the single, approved and flawlessly inflected voice booming from the apex of the pyramid of power. We don't hear that often nowadays, nor a native Italian who inflects the words of a Verdi opera so beautifully and naturally. This time, she spoke in English inflected with a German accent so that Loren could hear what she had to say. The postcingulum has a similar, but reversed pattern: it leaves the hypocone posteriorly, swings labially, is inflected sharply anterolabially, and ends at the posterior spur lingual to the intermediate row of cusps. She kept her voice clear, the words precisely pronounced and inflected. ‘Odd seeing Mr. Van Doren here,’ Ronald says, his deep voice inflected with curiosity. I did not know whether it was her abnormal dress, her desire for death, or her oddly inflected voice but this girl was something new. If Eddie's voice (as both voice-over and direct speech) is clear and inflected with humour, not so the official speech of the forces assembled against him. One thing that on-line communication doesn't give is a sense of how people's voices inflect what they say with particular meanings that you don't always pick up when someone is writing. 2.1 Vary the pitch of (a musical note). Example sentencesExamples If Davis was unable to communicate his enthusiasm for this composer to his vocal forces, he did manage to draw warmly inflected playing from the orchestra. Pletnev seems eager to convince us that these are very important works, and so everything is inflected, almost to the point of fussiness. But even performers who ‘adhere to the score’ greatly inflect their readings by personal, pianistic, musical and emotional modifications. As the patterns of notes or letters are inflected, moments of fulfillment or stability are perceived. Taking a whirlwind tempo, as he did, is one thing; but failing to inflect the smaller motivic units that comprise it is quite another. Synonyms adjust, change the tone of, vary 2.2 Influence or colour (music or writing) in tone or style. her analysis may have been inflected by the upsurge of feminism in combination blues-inflected bar rock Example sentencesExamples This is not to insist that a commitment to continuity of care, as any aspect of parenting, is merely ‘natural’ rather than inflected by the cultural values and material conditions. Leonard's story is more obviously politically inflected than Virginia's, but in their different ways both reveal how that which is repulsive to the socialized symbolic self is already a fundamental component of its identity. But I believe the historical conjunction that gave rise to accountability continues to inflect and propel it. Concepts like martyrdom, which might seem to be shared with Christianity, are quite differently inflected, because based on a much more ready acceptance of the way of the world than on world rejection. In some cases they could just as easily be in black and white for all the viewer may recall, and they are almost without exception inflected with memorable, sometimes exaggerated effects. Now at the beginning of the twenty first century, healthcare and architecture are again inflecting each other in interesting ways. That is, the approach I have described as Curtin's might be inflected by American practices, such as those at Iowa. Clearly inflected by the more profound nuances of Japanese tradition, Pawson's spirit of sensuous rationalism meets such pragmatic challenges head on. Work that is less inflected than Marasela's may elicit the same doubt. The word professional is almost always negatively inflected for Woolf, whether it denotes the academic credentials that were historically denied to women or an excessive emphasis on public perception and financial success. Much of this materiel is, then, inflected by the digital. There are indications, however, that a new generation is starting to find its own voice, tempered and inflected by more exotic influences and general intellectual curiosity. There are brief mentions of how Washington's punch resulted in him receiving death threats, many of them inflected with racial epithets. For it is through words that our understanding of things get even more complicated, inflected, and obscured as the processes of representation and seeing run their course. The reception of Brooks's work through 1968 clearly demonstrates the extent to which a publisher's imprint inflects both the way a work is valued and the way it is understood. Thus the discourse of American studies had been inflected from the beginning by the doctrinal ‘doubleness’ of the adversary culture. But in fact, the spaces are defined by walls inflected in both plan and section, so although the spaces seem right for Aasen's books and desk and chairs, they emphasize their nature, as a conventional orthogonal layout could not. This is American pop culture - its film stars and sports figures - inflected through Pfeiffer's subtle and not-so-subtle messages, in American terms, about racism, heroism, irony and loss. Memory inflects his every gesture, and silence in his work assumes fullness and palpability. So begins the Iliad, and then we get, for twenty-five performance hours, a remarkably precise calibration of the different speeds at which time can flow when inflected through the experience of fury. 3technical Bend or deflect (something), especially inwards. particles readily inflect, deflect and jostle one another Example sentencesExamples The compression of the grids, together with their shifting scales, created urgent perspectival illusions that were immediately cancelled by richly inflected surfaces and complex relationships of unexpected colors. DiDonna inflects the field between the two columns with an ink hatching of fine strokes that infiltrates the column to the right. As the moisture decreases, the evaporation curve inflects at a point referred to herein as the peat evaporation inflection point. At the west end, off Europa Boulevard (the main thoroughfare of the east side of the Expo site), the glass screen is inflected. The profiled dog establishes the plane of the canvas, opening up space for the figures, who are otherwise turned into eloquent shapes by the edge of the canvas and the minimally inflected expanse of the Place. Each milieu affects the space, bends it, inflects it, shapes it. Working by consensus decision making, the group generated a design that splays in both plan and section, inflecting the structure outward while focusing inward to the place of ceremony. The angular process of the dentary is inflected medially in almost all marsupials. It's difficult to decide, too, whether the resulting structures are acutely inflected paintings or polychrome sculptures. Ojile's work has long had a musing, meditative quality; these layered depths and inflected surfaces extend a particularly compelling invitation to ponder both the known and the unknowable. Indeed, he continued, the answer resided in Newtonian physics: when Hopkinson held the textile up to the street lamp, the material inflected the light rays in a manner that made the threads appear thicker and the dark bars immobile. Synonyms bend, turn, loop, wind, meander, undulate, snake, spiral, twist, coil, curl Derivatives inflective adjective ɪnˈflɛktɪvɪnˈflɛktɪv He has a majestic voice that is supple and inflective while still being just a bit gritty. Origin Late Middle English (in sense 3): from Latin inflectere, from in- 'into' + flectere 'to bend'. Rhymes affect, bisect, bull-necked, collect, confect, connect, correct, defect, deflect, deject, detect, direct, effect, eject, elect, erect, expect, infect, inject, inspect, interconnect, interject, intersect, misdirect, neglect, object, perfect, project, prospect, protect, reflect, reject, respect, resurrect, sect, select, subject, suspect, transect, unchecked, Utrecht Definition of inflect in US English: inflect verbinˈflektɪnˈflɛkt [with object] 1Grammar Change the form of (a word) to express a particular grammatical function or attribute, typically tense, mood, person, number, case, and gender. Arabic verbs are inflected for person, number, and gender Example sentencesExamples Pronouns such as my are not adjectives either; they are pronouns, genitively inflected, functioning as determiners. A mantra is a kind of prayer that contains the name of God that is inflected grammatically in the dative case. There are two present-tense verbs here, both inflected for plural agreement. Bantu languages were praised for their terminations at the beginning, so that the words are inflected, conjugated, or defined by means of a system of prefixes. By contrast, the final verb is not marked for switch-reference but is fully inflected for such categories, and this inflection is relevant to the whole clause chain. 1.1no object (of a word or a language containing such words) undergo inflection. all of these words inflect irregularly Example sentencesExamples For example, they do not inflect for past tense, and with a third-person singular subject they do not take the characteristic s inflection. There's an abbreviation of the name, a checkbox for genders, another one for classes, and information about how the lexical type inflects. Languages can be classified into one of three types: isolating or noninflective, agglutinating, and inflecting. We listed a few words that we claimed were just exceptions to the claim that monosyllabic adjectives inflect, and we included wrong on that list. Chinese is monosyllabic, Japanese is polysyllabic; Japanese verbs, adjectives and adverbs inflect, whereas they don't in Chinese; and Japanese has a system of postpositions that Chinese doesn't. 2Vary the intonation or pitch of (the voice), especially to express mood or feeling. his slight voice, inflected with a token touch of grit Example sentencesExamples She kept her voice clear, the words precisely pronounced and inflected. Newspapers and magazines, once independent witnesses, are now mere conduits for the single, approved and flawlessly inflected voice booming from the apex of the pyramid of power. Are the words not only correct, but also pronounced accurately and clearly, and are they inflected appropriately and expressively? Stevens has attained better command of his limited vocal range, inflecting richly within it instead of pushing against it: ‘We had more fun when we were poor.’ The postcingulum has a similar, but reversed pattern: it leaves the hypocone posteriorly, swings labially, is inflected sharply anterolabially, and ends at the posterior spur lingual to the intermediate row of cusps. One thing that on-line communication doesn't give is a sense of how people's voices inflect what they say with particular meanings that you don't always pick up when someone is writing. The voice on the tape slightly inflects the word ‘or’ so many children answered ‘brownie’ instead of the correct answer, ‘yes.’ He is scornful of modern gurus, or gu-RUS as he mockingly inflects the word, and tells tour pros, ‘If they can't beat you, they've got nothing to teach you.’ We don't hear that often nowadays, nor a native Italian who inflects the words of a Verdi opera so beautifully and naturally. If Eddie's voice (as both voice-over and direct speech) is clear and inflected with humour, not so the official speech of the forces assembled against him. I did not know whether it was her abnormal dress, her desire for death, or her oddly inflected voice but this girl was something new. ‘Odd seeing Mr. Van Doren here,’ Ronald says, his deep voice inflected with curiosity. This time, she spoke in English inflected with a German accent so that Loren could hear what she had to say. 2.1 Vary the pitch of (a musical note). Example sentencesExamples But even performers who ‘adhere to the score’ greatly inflect their readings by personal, pianistic, musical and emotional modifications. Taking a whirlwind tempo, as he did, is one thing; but failing to inflect the smaller motivic units that comprise it is quite another. Pletnev seems eager to convince us that these are very important works, and so everything is inflected, almost to the point of fussiness. If Davis was unable to communicate his enthusiasm for this composer to his vocal forces, he did manage to draw warmly inflected playing from the orchestra. As the patterns of notes or letters are inflected, moments of fulfillment or stability are perceived. Synonyms adjust, change the tone of, vary 2.2 Influence or color (music or writing) in tone or style. her analysis may have been inflected by the upsurge of feminism in combination blues-inflected bar rock Example sentencesExamples Thus the discourse of American studies had been inflected from the beginning by the doctrinal ‘doubleness’ of the adversary culture. Work that is less inflected than Marasela's may elicit the same doubt. There are brief mentions of how Washington's punch resulted in him receiving death threats, many of them inflected with racial epithets. Clearly inflected by the more profound nuances of Japanese tradition, Pawson's spirit of sensuous rationalism meets such pragmatic challenges head on. This is not to insist that a commitment to continuity of care, as any aspect of parenting, is merely ‘natural’ rather than inflected by the cultural values and material conditions. Now at the beginning of the twenty first century, healthcare and architecture are again inflecting each other in interesting ways. The word professional is almost always negatively inflected for Woolf, whether it denotes the academic credentials that were historically denied to women or an excessive emphasis on public perception and financial success. Concepts like martyrdom, which might seem to be shared with Christianity, are quite differently inflected, because based on a much more ready acceptance of the way of the world than on world rejection. So begins the Iliad, and then we get, for twenty-five performance hours, a remarkably precise calibration of the different speeds at which time can flow when inflected through the experience of fury. That is, the approach I have described as Curtin's might be inflected by American practices, such as those at Iowa. This is American pop culture - its film stars and sports figures - inflected through Pfeiffer's subtle and not-so-subtle messages, in American terms, about racism, heroism, irony and loss. Leonard's story is more obviously politically inflected than Virginia's, but in their different ways both reveal how that which is repulsive to the socialized symbolic self is already a fundamental component of its identity. Much of this materiel is, then, inflected by the digital. There are indications, however, that a new generation is starting to find its own voice, tempered and inflected by more exotic influences and general intellectual curiosity. In some cases they could just as easily be in black and white for all the viewer may recall, and they are almost without exception inflected with memorable, sometimes exaggerated effects. But in fact, the spaces are defined by walls inflected in both plan and section, so although the spaces seem right for Aasen's books and desk and chairs, they emphasize their nature, as a conventional orthogonal layout could not. For it is through words that our understanding of things get even more complicated, inflected, and obscured as the processes of representation and seeing run their course. But I believe the historical conjunction that gave rise to accountability continues to inflect and propel it. Memory inflects his every gesture, and silence in his work assumes fullness and palpability. The reception of Brooks's work through 1968 clearly demonstrates the extent to which a publisher's imprint inflects both the way a work is valued and the way it is understood. 3technical Bend or deflect (something), especially inward. particles readily inflect, deflect and jostle one another Example sentencesExamples Each milieu affects the space, bends it, inflects it, shapes it. Ojile's work has long had a musing, meditative quality; these layered depths and inflected surfaces extend a particularly compelling invitation to ponder both the known and the unknowable. Working by consensus decision making, the group generated a design that splays in both plan and section, inflecting the structure outward while focusing inward to the place of ceremony. Indeed, he continued, the answer resided in Newtonian physics: when Hopkinson held the textile up to the street lamp, the material inflected the light rays in a manner that made the threads appear thicker and the dark bars immobile. The angular process of the dentary is inflected medially in almost all marsupials. At the west end, off Europa Boulevard (the main thoroughfare of the east side of the Expo site), the glass screen is inflected. The compression of the grids, together with their shifting scales, created urgent perspectival illusions that were immediately cancelled by richly inflected surfaces and complex relationships of unexpected colors. As the moisture decreases, the evaporation curve inflects at a point referred to herein as the peat evaporation inflection point. The profiled dog establishes the plane of the canvas, opening up space for the figures, who are otherwise turned into eloquent shapes by the edge of the canvas and the minimally inflected expanse of the Place. It's difficult to decide, too, whether the resulting structures are acutely inflected paintings or polychrome sculptures. DiDonna inflects the field between the two columns with an ink hatching of fine strokes that infiltrates the column to the right. Synonyms bend, turn, loop, wind, meander, undulate, snake, spiral, twist, coil, curl Origin Late Middle English (in inflect (sense 3)): from Latin inflectere, from in- ‘into’ + flectere ‘to bend’.
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