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Inflect   Listen
verb
Inflect  v. t.  (past & past part. inflected; pres. part. inflecting)  
1.
To turn from a direct line or course; to bend; to incline, to deflect; to curve; to bow. "Are they (the rays of the sun) not reflected, refracted, and inflected by one and the same principle?"
2.
(Gram.) To vary, as a noun or a verb in its terminations; to decline, as a noun or adjective, or to conjugate, as a verb.
3.
To modulate, as the voice.





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"Inflect" Quotes from Famous Books



... ceiling, arched roof; bay window, bow window. sine curve; spline, spline curve, spline function; obliquity &c. 217. V. be curved &c. adj[intrans].; curve, sweep, sway, swag, sag; deviate &c. 279; curl, turn; reenter. [trans] render curved &c. adj.; flex, bend, curve, incurvate[obs3]; inflect; deflect, scatter[Phys]; refract (light) 420; crook; turn, round, arch, arcuate, arch over, concamerate[obs3]; bow, curl, recurve, frizzle. rotundity &c. 249; convexity &c. 250. Adj. curved &c. v.; curviform[obs3], curvilineal[obs3], curvilinear; ...
— Roget's Thesaurus


Words linked to "Inflect" :   modulate, conjugate, pluralise, modify, inflexion, verbalise, verbalize, utter, tone, pluralize, decline, talk, inflection, mouth, speak


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