inflect
/in-flekt/US // ɪnˈflɛkt //UK // (ɪnˈflɛkt) //
拐弯,转折,转移,转化
Related Words
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Definitions
v.有主动词 verb
- 1
- : to alter, adapt, or modulate.
- : to alter or adapt in tone or character: the power of storytelling inflected through a feminist sensibility; jazz-inflected music.
- : Grammar. to apply inflection to.to recite or display all or a distinct set of the inflections of; decline or conjugate.
- : to bend; turn from a direct line or course.
- : Botany. to bend in.
v.无主动词 verb
- 1
- : Grammar. to be characterized by inflection.
Synonyms & Antonyms
Examples
Your cultureSo many key maternal variables — a spouse’s role, the distance to the nearest grandparent — are socially inflected.
The Aces’ locker room, full again, rings with Cambage’s Aussie-inflected jokes and preemptive boasts.
Now it would have been absurd to inflect a long English lesson.
(e) To memorize words and to learn to inflect them, before memorizing and learning how to construct sentences.
And we yet retain an objective case of the pronoun, and inflect it for person, number and gender.
Can you so inflect "sprawling in want" and "sitting high" as to suggest a swamp and a mountain-top, or a frog and an angel?
Query to the class: How did the lady inflect the word Yes to call forth the injunction, Read it again?
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