Inflect

What do we mean by inflect?

To alter (the voice) in tone or pitch; modulate. intransitive verb

To alter (a word) by inflection. intransitive verb

To turn from a course or a specified alignment; bend. intransitive verb

To be modified by inflection. intransitive verb

To give all of the inflected forms of a word; to provide a paradigm. intransitive verb

To bend; turn from a direct line or course.

In grammar, to vary, as a noun or verb, by change of form, especially in regard to endings; decline, as a noun or adjective, or conjugate, as a verb; more specifically, to denote a change of office in (words), not by added elements only, but more or less by alteration of the stem or root itself.

To modulate, as the voice.

To receive inflection; undergo grammatical changes of form.

To turn from a direct line or course; to bend; to incline, to deflect; to curve; to bow. transitive verb

To vary, as a noun or a verb in its terminations; to decline, as a noun or adjective, or to conjugate, as a verb. transitive verb

To modulate, as the voice. transitive verb

To cause to curve inwards. verb

To change the tone or pitch of the voice when speaking or singing. verb

To vary the form of a word to express tense, gender, number, mood, etc. verb

Vary the pitch of one's speech verb

Change the form of a word in accordance as required by the grammatical rules of the language verb

To cause to curve inwards.

To change the tone or pitch of the voice when speaking or singing.

(grammar) To vary the form of a word to express tense, gender, number, mood, etc.

(grammar, of a word) To be varied in the form to express tense, gender, number, mood, etc.

To influence in style.

When someone, in an effort to seem like they care, pronounces your name differently every time you see each other to deflect from the fact you have nothing to talk about or are too busy to remember anything about this person Urban Dictionary

To receive from outside influence a need to fix problems of a mutually desirable outcome. Urban Dictionary

Calculus: A point at which the concavity of a mathematical function changes. Points of inflection occur where the second derivative f''(x)=0, and where f'''(x) doesn't =0. Urban Dictionary

When someone isn’t British but acts and sounds British to the point they are mistaken to be British. Usually not being from British descent they just naturally come off as if they were born there. Urban Dictionary

When you mistakenly use the wrong inflection at the end of a sentence, resulting in confusion from both the listening and speaking parties Urban Dictionary

When, proverbially speaking, shit hits the fan, especially when one is talking about the us house ofrepresentatives. Urban Dictionary

What unique English teachers call it when your voice goes up at the end of a sentence that wasn’t a question. Urban Dictionary

You type this in brackets when you say something that could be misinterpreted in textual form so as not to cause undue offence to people. By putting this after phrases, you can easily banter someone on WhatsApp etc without them having a strop cos you think they're really digging you out. Urban Dictionary

Words that are spelled similarly to inflect:
inflect, inflict, infect.

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Adjectives that are often used to describe inflect:
total.

Consonant match to inflect:
inflict.

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