verb
Meaning 1
To cause to curve inwards.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
inflect
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Pronunciation
Each Play button uses your device's default local English voice, or a natural local fallback. The selected voice name appears after playback. This is synthesized speech, not a source recording.
-
/ɪnˈflɛkt/
-
US: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
-
Australia: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
-
rhymes with -ɛkt
verb
Meaning 2
To change the tone or pitch of the voice when speaking or singing.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
Topics: entertainment, lifestyle, music
Examples
- The actress has a great skill of being able to inflect her voice to any situation.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
verb
Meaning 3
To vary the form of a word to express tense, gender, number, mood, etc.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
Topics: grammar, human-sciences, linguistics, sciences
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
verb
Meaning 4
To be varied in the form to express tense, gender, number, mood, etc.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: intransitive
Topics: grammar, human-sciences, linguistics, sciences
Examples
- In Latin, adjectives and nouns inflect a lot, but inflection is minimally found in Modern English.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
verb
Meaning 5
vary the pitch of one's speech
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: tone, modulate
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: talk, speak, utter, mouth, verbalize, verbalise
verb
Meaning 6
change the form of a word in accordance as required by the grammatical rules of the language
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: modify
Narrower terms: compare, decline, conjugate, pluralize, pluralise
History
Etymology
From Latin īnflectō, from in- (“in”) + flectō (“to bend”).
Across languages
Translations
48 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Bulgarian: извивам навътре (izvivam navǎtre) — cause to curve inwards
- Dutch: verbuigen — cause to curve inwards
- Finnish: taivuttaa sisäänpäin — cause to curve inwards
- Russian: сгиба́ть (sgibátʹ) — cause to curve inwards
- Russian: гнуть (gnutʹ) — cause to curve inwards
- Russian: согну́ть (sognútʹ) — cause to curve inwards
- Russian: вгиба́ть (vgibátʹ) — cause to curve inwards
- Russian: вогну́ть (vognútʹ) — cause to curve inwards
- Ottoman Turkish: بوكمك (bükmek) — cause to curve inwards
- Ottoman Turkish: اكمك (eğmek) — cause to curve inwards
- Bulgarian: модулирам (moduliram) — music: change tone or pitch
- Finnish: muuttaa äänensävyä — music: change tone or pitch
- Russian: модули́ровать (modulírovatʹ) — music: change tone or pitch
- Spanish: modular — music: change tone or pitch
- Bulgarian: скланям (sklanjam) — grammar: vary the form of a word
- Bulgarian: спрягам (sprjagam) — grammar: vary the form of a word
- Czech: ohýbat — grammar: vary the form of a word
- Danish: bøje — grammar: vary the form of a word
- Dutch: verbuigen — grammar: vary the form of a word
- Esperanto: fleksii — grammar: vary the form of a word
- Finnish: taivuttaa — grammar: vary the form of a word
- French: infléchir — grammar: vary the form of a word
- German: flektieren — grammar: vary the form of a word
- German: beugen — grammar: vary the form of a word
- Greek: κλίνω (klíno) — grammar: vary the form of a word
- Hungarian: ragoz — grammar: vary the form of a word
- Italian: coniugare — grammar: vary the form of a word
- Italian: flettere — grammar: vary the form of a word
- Japanese: 働く (hataraku) — grammar: vary the form of a word
- Lithuanian: kaityti — grammar: vary the form of a word
- Manx: yn-fill — grammar: vary the form of a word
- Norwegian: bøye — grammar: vary the form of a word
- Old English: bīeġan — grammar: vary the form of a word
- Polish: odmieniać — grammar: vary the form of a word
- Polish: odmienić — grammar: vary the form of a word
- Portuguese: variar — grammar: vary the form of a word
- Portuguese: flexionar — grammar: vary the form of a word
- Romanian: flexiona — grammar: vary the form of a word
- Russian: склоня́ть (sklonjátʹ) — grammar: vary the form of a word
- Russian: спряга́ть (sprjagátʹ) — grammar: vary the form of a word
- Slovene: pregibati — grammar: vary the form of a word
- Spanish: conjugar — grammar: vary the form of a word
- Spanish: declinar — grammar: vary the form of a word
- Spanish: inflexionar — grammar: vary the form of a word
- Swedish: böja — grammar: vary the form of a word
- Thai: ผัน (pǎn) — grammar: vary the form of a word
- Turkish: ses değiştirmek — grammar: vary the form of a word
- Finnish: vaikuttaa — influence in style