Word Meanings - INFLECTION - Book Publishers vocabulary database

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. (more

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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. (more info) 1. The act of inflecting, or the state of being inflected. 2. A bend; a fold; a curve; a turn; a twist. 3. A slide, modulation, or accent of the voice; as, the rising and the falling inflection.

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• GENDER
  A classification of nouns, primarily according to sex; and secondarily according to some fancied or imputed quality associated with sex. Gender is a grammatical distinction and applies to words only. Sex is natural distinction and applies to living
• PITCHERFUL
  The quantity a pitcher will hold.
• MONOTONE
  A single unvaried tone or sound.
• MODIFICATION
  The act of modifying, or the state of being modified; a modified form or condition; state as modified; a change; as, the modification of an opinion, or of a machine; the various modifications of light. Bentley.
• NUMBERFUL
  Numerous.
• PERSONNEL
  The body of persons employed in some public service, as the army, navy, etc.; -- distinguished from matériel.
• PERSONIFICATION
  A figure of speech in which an inanimate object or abstract idea is represented as animated, or endowed with personality; prosopopas, the floods clap their hands. "Confusion heards his voice." Milton. (more info) 1. The act of personifying;
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• PITCHFORK
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• VARIATION
  Change of termination of words, as in declension, conjugation, derivation, etc. (more info) 1. The act of varying; a partial change in the form, position, state, or qualities of a thing; modification; alternation; mutation; diversity; deviation;
• CHANGEFUL
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• UNDERGORE
  To gore underneath.
• GENDERLESS
  Having no gender.
• DEPARTURE
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  Recitative.
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• INVOICE
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