| 单词 | inflection |
| 释义 | inflection (once / 2151 pages) 1n 2n 3n Inflection refers to the ups and downs of a language. Even if you can’t understand Italian yet, the inflection in your professor’s voice should tip you off to whether she's asking a question, giving a command, or making a joke. What began in the 1500s as a noun of action spelled inflexion has since evolved into inflection, a word with grammatical connotation. Inflection most often refers to the pitch and tone patterns in a person’s speech: where the voice rises and falls. But inflection also describes a departure from a normal or straight course. When you change, or bend, the course of a soccer ball by bouncing it off another person, that’s an example of inflection. WORD FAMILYinflection: inflectional, inflections+/inflect: inflected, inflecting, inflection, inflects, inflexion/inflected: uninflected/inflexion: inflexions USAGE EXAMPLESThis would represent a major inflection point — perhaps the major inflection point — in the development of something that felt like true artificial intelligence. New York Times(Dec 14, 2016) The man’s ready with a discourse on the subject, complete with sincerity-steeped rhetorical inflections. Wall Street Journal(Dec 09, 2016) In time, I may change my mind and my inflection so that the reaction becomes “What!” and “That was insane!” Washington Post(Dec 07, 2016) 1 1n the patterns of stress and intonation in a language Syn|Hypo|Hyper prosody intonation, modulation, pitch contour rise and fall of the voice pitch caesuraa break or pause (usually for sense) in the middle of a verse line enjambement, enjambmentthe continuation of a syntactic unit from one line of verse into the next line without a pause accent, emphasis, stressthe relative prominence of a syllable or musical note (especially with regard to stress or pitch) rhythm, speech rhythmthe arrangement of spoken words alternating stressed and unstressed elements intonation patternintonations characteristic of questions and requests and statements drone, droning, monotonean unchanging intonation singsonga regular and monotonous rising and falling intonation accentuationthe use or application of an accent; the relative prominence of syllables in a phrase or utterance pitch accent, tonic accentemphasis that results from pitch rather than loudness word accent, word stressthe distribution of stresses within a polysyllabic word sentence stressthe distribution of stresses within a sentence delivery, manner of speaking, speech your characteristic style or manner of expressing yourself orally 2n a manner of speaking in which the loudness or pitch or tone of the voice is modified 2Syn|Hyper modulation delivery, manner of speaking, speech your characteristic style or manner of expressing yourself orally n a change in the form of a word (usually by adding a suffix) to indicate a change in its grammatical function 3Syn|Hypo|Hyper inflexion conjugation the inflection of verbs declensionthe inflection of nouns and pronouns and adjectives in Indo-European languages paradigmsystematic arrangement of all the inflected forms of a word pluralisation, pluralizationthe act of pluralizing or attributing plurality to grammatical relation a linguistic relation established by grammar n deviation from a straight or normal course Syn|Hyper flection, flexion departure, deviation, difference, divergence a variation that deviates from the standard or norm |
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