| 单词 | inflect |
| 释义 | inflect (once / 1544 pages) v To inflect is to speak in a way that reflects — and changes with — your mood. After hearing tragic news, you'll inflect what you say with the sadness you feel. The changing pitch of your voice inflects your words with meaning, and another way to inflect is to change the form of a word for grammatical reasons, including tense, number, or gender. When you inflect verbs, it's also called conjugation. For example, when you change the verb "to be" from "I am" to "we are," you inflect it. The Latin root of inflect is inflectere, "to bend," and also "to change." WORD FAMILYinflect: inflected, inflecting, inflection, inflects, inflexion+/inflected: uninflected/inflection: inflectional, inflections/inflexion: inflexions USAGE EXAMPLES“We want to influence people. We want to be an intellectual vanguard that starts to inflect policy, inflect culture, inflect politics,” he said. The Guardian(Nov 21, 2016) He speaks with a Virginia accent, and his voice is inflected with humor, as if a punch line is always imminent. New York Times(Nov 07, 2016) But the newsboy-capped bartender poured another Manhattan, this one inflected with saffron, and the time — it hardly mattered in a place like this. New York Times(Nov 03, 2016) 1v vary the pitch of one's speech Syn|Hyper modulate, tone mouth, speak, talk, utter, verbalise, verbalize express in speech 2v change the form of a word in accordance as required by the grammatical rules of the language Hypo|Hyper compare to form the comparative or superlative form on an adjective or adverb declineinflect for number, gender, case, etc., "in many languages, speakers decline nouns, pronouns, and adjectives" conjugateadd inflections showing person, number, gender, tense, aspect, etc. pluralise, pluralizemark with a grammatical morpheme that indicates plural modify make less severe or harsh or extreme |
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