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inflect

/in-flekt/US // ɪnˈflɛkt //UK // (ɪnˈflɛkt) //

拐弯,转折,转移,转化

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Definitions

v.有主动词 verb
  1. 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. 1
    • : Grammar. to be characterized by inflection.

Synonyms & Antonyms

as invary

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?