flessione — meaning in English
Italian → English · translate English → Italian instead
English meaning
- flex verb To bend a joint or tighten a muscle, often to show strength.
- inflection noun (grammar) The way words change their form to show grammatical features such as tense or number.
- squat adj Short and thick-set; low and broad rather than tall.
Senses
flessione is used for these senses in English:
- flex (countable) An act of flexing.
- inflection (grammar, uncountable) The linguistic phenomenon of morphological variation, whereby terms take a number of distinct forms in order to express different grammatical features.
- push-up An exercise done to improve upper body strength, performed by resting on one's toes and hands and pushing one's weight off the floor.
- squat (exercise) Any of various modes of callisthenic exercises performed by moving the body and bending at least one knee.
flex — full definition
- verb To bend a joint or tighten a muscle, often to show strength.
- verb To show off or boast, often about wealth, status, or ability (informal).
- noun A flexible insulated electrical cord or cable (chiefly British).
- noun An instance of boasting or showing off (informal).
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.
Vocabulary Flow
Learn more English words in Italian.
Vocabulary Flow serves English words with the Italian meaning, one at a time — pronunciation and an example each time. Scroll it either direction.
Learn English in Italian
