Inflection is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for INFLECTION in dictionary:

NOUN:
• 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
• The act of inflecting, or the state of being inflected.
• A bend; a fold; a curve; a turn; a twist.
• A slide, modulation, or accent of the voice; as, the rising and the falling inflection.
• The variation or change which words undergo to mark case, gender, number, comparison, tense, person, mood, voice, etc.
• Any change or modification in the pitch or tone of the voice.
• A departure from the monotone, or reciting note, in chanting.
• Same as Diffraction.
• a change in the form of a word (usually by adding a suffix) to indicate a change in its grammatical function
• the patterns of stress and intonation in a language
• deviation from a straight or normal course
• a manner of speaking in which the loudness or pitch or tone of the voice is modified
• a change in the form of a word, usually modification or affixation, signalling change in such grammatical functions as tense, voice, mood, person
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• the act or result of curving or bending; bend

Words related to INFLECTION

inflectional17 inflectionally22 inflectionless19 inflections16

Words that contain INFLECTION

inflections16 inflectional17 inflectionally22 inflectionless19 noninflectional20

How to use INFLECTION in a sentence

• But the more I thought of it, the more the inflection he had given that word seemed an interrogation rather than an affirmation.
• What inflection of English nouns regularly changes their gender? 8.
• Which kind of inflection is said to be most common? 28.
• They have not learned that this is a place where words must speak for themselves without comment of inflection, gesture of the hand, or interpreting smile.
• Then note how the same words, spoken with a generally falling inflection may denote certainty, or good-natured approval, or enthusiastic praise, and so on.
• While you are working for proper inflection, for instance, inflection will be demanding your first thoughts, and the flow of your speech, for the time being, will be secondary.
• Generally speaking, we may say that the ascending inflection carries something of joy or hope with it, while the downward inflection has something of the sinister and fearful.
• Gesture, articulation, voice production and inflection should be at his finger tips.
• WHY, in large capitals, and with an intensely ascendant inflection.
• Her voice was high and rather shrill, and she often spoke with an anxious inflection, for she was exceedingly desirous that everything should go with due order and decorum.
• Among the optical discoveries of Newton those which he made on the inflection of light hold a high place.
• In writing we must do for the eye what inflection and pauses do for the ear.
• He ceased to dance and to appear cheerful, and his he! he! took on a sneering inflection.
• There was just a hint of a rising inflection in the accent.
• The whole secret of captivating an audience by the charms of the voice, consists in a practical knowledge of the laws of sound, inflection, respiration and silence.
• But the length of the interval between one sound and another is subject to the laws of slowness and rapidity, respiration, silence and inflection.
• Roof is expressed by the falling, cellar by the rising inflection.
• Gesture, then, is the bond of union between inflection and thought.
• The sense lies not in speech, but in inflection and gesture.
• Imitation is the melody of the eye, inflection is the melody of the ear.
• Hence in a discourse, speech is the letter, and it is inflection and gesture which give it life.
• In fact, human language, as we have said, is composed of inflection, gesture and speech.
• Gesture would be the inflection of the deaf, inflection the gesture of the blind.
• Gesture and inflection should supplement physical and mental infirmities, and God in truth has given man this double means of expression.
• He will be assisted in this by emphasizing strongly the word which receives the inflection, thus.
• Sometimes, also, emphasis alone seems to require the rising inflection on the concluding word.
• She took account of everything he did and said, pondering it, and trying to make out exactly what he meant, to the inflection of a syllable, the slightest movement or gesture.
• Inflection, Accent and Emphasis, Reading Verse, for the Management of the Voice and Gesture.
• The girl whose ear was so wonderfully sensitive to pitch and rhythm, was simply deaf, it seemed, to the subtleties of inflection.

Similar words containing FLEC without suffix tion and without prefix in

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