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.
Alexander Pope