Associations to the word «Inflect»
Wiktionary
INFLECT, verb. (transitive) To cause to curve inwards.
INFLECT, verb. (transitive) (music) To change the tone or pitch of the voice when speaking or singing.
INFLECT, verb. (transitive) (grammar) To vary the form of a word to express tense, gender, number, mood, etc.
Dictionary definition
INFLECT, verb. Change the form of a word in accordance as required by the grammatical rules of the language.
INFLECT, verb. Vary the pitch of one's speech.
Wise words
In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike
fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the
new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.