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Inflect vs Infect - What's the difference?

inflect | infect |

In transitive terms the difference between inflect and infect

is that inflect is to cause to curve inwards while infect is to make somebody enthusiastic about one's own passion.

As an adjective infect is

infected.

inflect

English

Verb

(en verb)
  • To cause to curve inwards.
  • (music) To change the tone or pitch of the voice when speaking or singing.
  • (grammar) To vary the form of a word to express tense, gender, number, mood, etc.

    • Synonyms

    * (to bend or curve inwards) (l)

    Derived terms

    * inflection * inflective * inflexion

    See also

    * conjugate * decline * deflect

    infect

    English

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To bring into contact with a substance that causes illness (a pathogen).
  • * {{quote-magazine, year=2013, month=May-June, author= Katie L. Burke
    • , title= In the News , volume=101, issue=3, page=193, magazine=(American Scientist) , passage=Bats host many high-profile viruses that can infect humans, including severe acute respiratory syndrome and Ebola.}}
  • To make somebody enthusiastic about one's own passion.

    • Antonyms

    * disinfect

    Derived terms

    * infection * infectible

    Related terms

    * infectious

    Adjective

    (-)
  • (obsolete) Infected.
  • * 1602 , , I. iii. 187:
    • And in the imitation of these twain, / Who, as Ulysses says, opinion crowns / With an imperial voice, many are infect .
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