Word Meanings - INFLECT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To vary, as a noun or a verb in its terminations; to decline, as a noun or adjective, or to conjugate, as a verb. 3. To modulate, as the voice. (more info) 1. To turn from a direct line or course; to bend; to incline, to deflect; to curve; to bow.

Additional info about word: INFLECT

To vary, as a noun or a verb in its terminations; to decline, as a noun or adjective, or to conjugate, as a verb. 3. To modulate, as the voice. (more info) 1. To turn from a direct line or course; to bend; to incline, to deflect; to curve; to bow. Are they not reflected, refracted, and inflected by one and the same principle Sir I. Newton.

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• DIRECTER
  One who directs; a director. Directer plane , the plane to which all right-lined elements in a warped surface are parallel.
• ADJECTIVE
  1. Added to a substantive as an attribute; of the nature of an adjunct; as, an word sentence. 2. Not standing by itself; dependent. Adjective color, a color which requires to be fixed by some mordant or base to give it permanency. 3. Relating to
• COURSED
  1. Hunted; as, a coursed hare. 2. Arranged in courses; as, coursed masonry.
• DIRECT ACTION
  See BELOW
• DIRECT NOMINATION
  The nomination or designation of candidates for public office by direct popular vote rather than through the action of a convention or body of elected nominating representatives or delegates. The term is applied both to the nomination of candidates
• DIRECTRIX
  1. A directress. Jer. Taylor. A line along which a point in another line moves, or which in any way governs the motion of the point and determines the position of the curve generated by it; the line along which the generatrix moves in generating
• COURSE
  1. The act of moving from one point to another; progress; passage. And when we had finished our course from Tyre, we came to Ptolemais. Acts xxi. 7. 2. THe ground or path traversed; track; way. The same horse also run the round course at Newmarket.
• CURVE
  Bent without angles; crooked; curved; as, a curve line; a curve surface.
• DIRECT
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• CONJUGATE
  In single pairs; coupled. (more info) con- + jugare to join, yoke, marry, jugum yoke; akin to jungere to 1. United in pairs; yoked together; coupled.
• DECLINE
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  Containing directions; enjoining; instructing; directorial.
• DIRECTRESS
  A woman who directs. Bp. Hurd.
• MODULATE
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• DEFLECTABLE
  Capable of being deflected.
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  The condition or office of a director; directorate.
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• RECURVE
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