Inflections is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for INFLECTIONS in dictionary:

NOUN:
• INFLECTION, a change in the form of a word, usually modification or affixation, signalling change in such grammatical functions as tense, voice, mood, person, also INFLEXION
• a change in the form of a word (typically the ending) to express a grammatical function or attribute such as tense, mood, person, number, case, and gender
• the process or practice of inflecting words.
• the modulation of intonation or pitch in the voice
• the variation of the pitch of a musical note.
• a change of curvature from convex to concave at a particular point on a curve
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• the act or result of curving or bending; bend

Words related to INFLECTIONS

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How to use INFLECTIONS in a sentence

• Its primitive pronouns might be retained, with simple inflections, instead of compound, for plural.
• Elocution requires a knowledge, and right application, of emphasis, pauses, inflections, and tones.
• The Old English or Anglo-Saxon had been a purely Germanic speech, with a complicated grammar and a full set of inflections.
• Our inflections, therefore, are by no means constant, but admit of numberless irregularities, which in this Dictionary will be diligently noted.
• He went however further than this and so changed the inflections and orthography that the language is no longer of the fourteenth but rather of the fifteenth century.
• Deliver the two following selections with great earnestness, and note how the inflections differ from the foregoing.
• The inflections are often made subsidiary to this object.
• The Roman Catholics sing their psalms in Latin, with a few inflections of the voice.
• His voice held the inflections of the cultured world.
• The women talked all at once, at the top of their voices and with no falling inflections.
• We call inflections the modifications which affect the voice in rendering the emotions of the senses.
• Man has received from God the privilege of revealing the inmost affections of his being through the thousand inflections of his voice.
• There is great affinity between the inflections of the voice and gesture.
• All the inflections of the voice are common to gesture.
• As he gains sensibility his tones grow richer, become inflections, are multiplied and attain the number of three million special and distinct inflections.
• A variety of effects and inflections should be avoided.
• But there are movements which cannot be habitually affected, which can only modify types and attitudes of the inflections of the head.
• Gesture through its inflections may reproduce all the figures of geometry.
• We shall confine ourselves to a description of the primary and most usual imitative inflections.
• These are direct, circular and oblique inflections.
• We must examine the nine inflections which arise in the first instance from the three directions, antero-posterior, vertical and transverse.
• It has, so far as I could ascertain, no terminal inflections, and its grammar seemed to be simple and easily learned.
• If the affirmative clause comes first, the order of the inflections is inverted.
• For the inflections and emphasis in this selection, let the pupil be guided by his own judgment.
• One day, when there was no one in the country house, all having gone out into the garden or the fields, I heard him saying over what few words he knew, in different inflections.
• We have also seen that the articulation of a few words learned by parrots aids us greatly in learning the meaning of these different inflections.

Similar words containing FLECTION without suffix s and without prefix in

flection13 flections14 deflection16 flectional15 inflection15 reflection15 deflections17 reflections16 deflectional18 flectionless17 genuflection18 inflectional17 irreflection17 reflectional17 genuflections19 irreflections18 retroflection18 antireflection19 inflectionally22 inflectionless19 reflectionless19 retroflections19 noninflectional20 retroreflection20 retroreflections21

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