See inflex in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
{
"etymology_text": "Compare flex, inflect.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "inflexes",
"tags": [
"present",
"singular",
"third-person"
]
},
{
"form": "inflexing",
"tags": [
"participle",
"present"
]
},
{
"form": "inflexed",
"tags": [
"participle",
"past"
]
},
{
"form": "inflexed",
"tags": [
"past"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {},
"expansion": "inflex (third-person singular simple present inflexes, present participle inflexing, simple past and past participle inflexed)",
"name": "en-verb"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "verb",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
"parents": [
"Entries with incorrect language header",
"Entry maintenance"
],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with 1 entry",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with entries",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
}
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1708, [John Philips], “Book II”, in Cyder. […], London: […] J[acob] Tonson, […], →OCLC, page 69:",
"text": "a brazen tube Inflex'd",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To bend; to cause to become curved; to make crooked; to deflect."
],
"id": "en-inflex-en-verb-YUjIfdOj",
"links": [
[
"bend",
"bend"
],
[
"curved",
"curved"
],
[
"crooked",
"crooked"
],
[
"deflect",
"deflect"
]
]
}
],
"word": "inflex"
}
{
"etymology_text": "Compare flex, inflect.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "inflexes",
"tags": [
"present",
"singular",
"third-person"
]
},
{
"form": "inflexing",
"tags": [
"participle",
"present"
]
},
{
"form": "inflexed",
"tags": [
"participle",
"past"
]
},
{
"form": "inflexed",
"tags": [
"past"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {},
"expansion": "inflex (third-person singular simple present inflexes, present participle inflexing, simple past and past participle inflexed)",
"name": "en-verb"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "verb",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"English entries with incorrect language header",
"English lemmas",
"English terms with quotations",
"English verbs",
"Pages with 1 entry",
"Pages with entries"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1708, [John Philips], “Book II”, in Cyder. […], London: […] J[acob] Tonson, […], →OCLC, page 69:",
"text": "a brazen tube Inflex'd",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To bend; to cause to become curved; to make crooked; to deflect."
],
"links": [
[
"bend",
"bend"
],
[
"curved",
"curved"
],
[
"crooked",
"crooked"
],
[
"deflect",
"deflect"
]
]
}
],
"word": "inflex"
}
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