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inflection::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | modulation |
| Type of | delivery, manner of speaking, speech |
| Derivation | inflect |
inflection::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | prosody |
| Type of | speech, manner of speaking, delivery |
| Has types | stress, caesura, emphasis, enjambement, enjambment, intonation, modulation, pitch contour, rhythm, speech rhythm, accent |
| Derivation | inflect |
inflection::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | flection, flexion |
| Type of | divergence, departure, difference, deviation |
inflection::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | inflexion |
| Type of | grammatical relation |
| Has types | declension, paradigm, conjugation, pluralisation, pluralization |
| Derivation | inflect, inflectional |
Examples of inflection
inflection
Campbell's inflection may be country, but his delivery is unquestionably urbane.
From the time.com
However, when DeWitt spoke up, Pujols cringed at the owner's lack of inflection.
From the stltoday.com
But that support-both in the U.S. and internationally-is at an inflection point.
From the ecocentric.blogs.time.com
We obtained the inflection points of psychometric curves for each block and rat.
From the nature.com
Verb inflection for tense has been found to be problematic in several languages.
From the en.wikipedia.org
Good-time music to dance to, or goof to, much of it with a Caribbean inflection.
From the time.com
At each inflection point you'll want to ask a number of money-related questions.
From the forbes.com
Neither of these guys smile, change voice inflection or make insightful points.
From the orlandosentinel.com
He spoke with excited inflection supplemented with the occasional hand gesture.
From the denverpost.com
- A change in the form of a word (usually by adding a suffix) to indicate a change in its grammatical function
- Prosody: the patterns of stress and intonation in a language
- Deviation from a straight or normal course
- Modulation: a manner of speaking in which the loudness or pitch or tone of the voice is modified
- (inflected) (of the voice) altered in tone or pitch; "his southern Yorkshire voice was less inflected and singing than her northern one"
- (inflected) showing alteration in form (especially by the addition of affixes); "`boys' and `swam' are inflected English words"; "German is an inflected language"
- In grammar, inflection or inflexion is the modification of a word to express different grammatical categories such as tense, mood, voice, aspect, person, number, gender and case. Conjugation is the inflection of verbs; declension is the inflection of nouns, adjectives and pronouns.
- Diatonic and chromatic are terms in music theory that are most often used to characterize scales, and are also applied to intervals, chords, notes, musical styles, and kinds of harmony. ...
- (inflected) Deviating from a straight line; Changed in form to reflect function (referring to a word); Having inflected word forms; bent or curved inward or downward
