Biegung — meaning in English
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English meaning
- bend verb To force something into a curved or angled shape.
- inflection noun (grammar) The way words change their form to show grammatical features such as tense or number.
- sweep verb To clean a surface by brushing dirt or debris away, usually with a broom.
- twist verb To turn or bend something, often forcefully, so it becomes distorted or wound.
Senses
Biegung is used for these senses in English:
- bend A curve.
- inflection (grammar, uncountable) The linguistic phenomenon of morphological variation, whereby terms take a number of distinct forms in order to express different grammatical features.
- sweep Direction or departure of a curve, a road, an arch, etc. away from a rectilinear line.
- twist A sudden bend (or short series of bends) in a road, path, etc.
bend — full definition
- verb To force something into a curved or angled shape.
- verb To curve or change direction.
- verb To lean or stoop the body.
- verb To adapt rules or facts to suit a purpose.
- noun A curve, turn, or angle.
inflection — full definition
- noun (grammar) The way words change their form to show grammatical features such as tense or number.
- noun (grammar) A particular kind of word change that applies to a certain group of words.
- noun (grammar) A letter or group of letters added to a word to show such a change.
- noun Any specific morphological form of a particular term, such as the principal parts for any given stem; any of the declined or conjugated forms that constitute its declension or conjugation.
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