inflection
11inflection — inflectionless, adj. /in flek sheuhn/, n. 1. modulation of the voice; change in pitch or tone of voice. 2. Also, flection. Gram. a. the process or device of adding affixes to or changing the shape of a base to give it a different syntactic… …
12inflection — [[t]ɪnfle̱kʃ(ə)n[/t]] inflections (in BRIT, also use inflexion) 1) N VAR An inflection in someone s voice is a change in its tone or pitch as they are speaking. [WRITTEN] The man s voice was devoid of inflection... Seb? he said, with a rising… …
13inflection — UK [ɪnˈflekʃ(ə)n] / US noun Word forms inflection : singular inflection plural inflections 1) [uncountable] the way that the sound of your voice goes up and down when you speak 2) [uncountable] linguistics changes in the basic form of a word to… …
14inflection — /ɪnˈflɛkʃən / (say in flekshuhn) noun 1. modulation of the voice; change in pitch or tone of voice. 2. Grammar a. the existence in a language of sets of forms built normally on a single stem, having different syntactic functions and meanings, but …
15inflection — n. (also inflexion) 1 a the act or condition of inflecting or being inflected. b an instance of this. 2 Gram. a the process or practice of inflecting words. b an inflected form of a word. c a suffix etc. used to inflect, e.g. ed. 3 a modulation… …
16inflection — noun Date: 1531 1. the act or result of curving or bending ; bend 2. change in pitch or loudness of the voice 3. a. the change of form that words undergo to mark such distinctions as those of case, gender, number, tense, person, mood, or voice b …
17INFLECTION — the name given to the changes in the end of words to indicate relations, not so common in English being usually expressed among us by prepositions as in Latin, Greek, and other languages, but occurring in English as king s, mine, ours, to… …
18inflection — n. also: inflexion a falling; rising inflection …
19inflection — inflexion, inflection noun 1 (U) the way in which a word changes its form to show difference in its meaning or use 2 (C) one of the forms of a word that changes in this way, or one of the parts that is added to it 3 (C, U) the way the sound of… …
20inflection — noun when I read my lines, he d gently correct my pronunciation and inflection Syn: stress, cadence, rhythm, accent, intonation, pitch, emphasis, modulation, lilt, tone …
