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inflected

Definitions, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for inflected.

Editorial note

So in theory, if the dictionary is comprehensive, you can properly replace inflected forms with their correct non-inflected forms.

Examples16
Definitions4
Parts of speech1

Quick take

Deviating from a straight line.

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of inflected gathered in one view.

adjective

Deviating from a straight line.

adjective

(grammar) Changed in form to reflect function (referring to a word).

adjective

(linguistics) Having inflected word forms; fusional.

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for inflected.

Example sentences

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So in theory, if the dictionary is comprehensive, you can properly replace inflected forms with their correct non-inflected forms.

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Part of the problem is that Zed (Shaw) is associated with a conversational, bombastic, informal, pop-culture inflected style of writing and argumentation.

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It's a common situation in a lot of inflected languages--words get suffixed to agree in number, gender, etc.

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Then you just have to look for verbs inflected in first person singular as opposed to some impersonal inflection.

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There are free coding clinics at a number of anarchist infoshops and anarchist-inflected hackerspaces, and afaik none has received a complaint.

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The concepts of presence and absence which underlie our understanding of existence were long ago inflected by the existence of virtual archives.

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If you asked a Finnish person why a particular word is spelled/inflected/conjugated the way it is, they wouldn't be able to tell you.

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Guys, I'm pretty sure he's talking about gender-inflected languages and not making a sexist statement.

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Music theory is an art-related discipline and very much culturally inflected.

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I never really bought it as anything more than identity politics inflected role playing, though I know they would hate that characterization.

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Science is inflected in a lot of his work.

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The basis of my opinion, fwiw, is that all of my classes involving asm used GNU tools/AT&T, and I never felt enormous difficulties reading Intel-inflected docs.

Quote examples

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'enhancement' might become 'enhanc') However, lemmatization is considered "better" in that it uses a dictionary of inflected forms that map back to the non-inflected form.

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However, sometimes you end up with weird "non-inflected" tokens at the end.

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Most languages, for obvious reasons, arrange it so that commands can be given via the most basic verbal “stem” available, not a special, uniquely inflected form!

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It's "irregular", both in the human sense that there's all sorts of horrible exceptions to ridiculous numbers of rules, and in the compsci sense that you cannot recognise/produce the inflected forms of nouns and verbs using a finite state automaton/transducer.

Frequently asked questions

Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.

How do you use inflected in a sentence?

So in theory, if the dictionary is comprehensive, you can properly replace inflected forms with their correct non-inflected forms.

What does inflected mean?

Deviating from a straight line.

What part of speech is inflected?

inflected is commonly used as adjective.