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Conjugation

noun

The state of being joined together. Synonyms: colligation, conjunction, junction.

The inflection of verbs.

The complete set of inflected forms of a verb.

A class of verbs having the same inflectional forms.

The act of pairing a male and female for reproductive purposes. Synonyms: coupling, mating, pairing, sexual union, union. "The mating of some species occurs only in the spring"

The act of making or becoming a single unit. Synonyms: jointure, unification, union, uniting. "He looked forward to the unification of his family for the holidays"

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"Conjugation" Quotes from Famous Books

... that you are ruminating on the act of fertilisation: it has long seemed to me the most wonderful and curious of physiological problems. I have often and often speculated for amusement on the subject, but quite fruitlessly. Do you not think that the conjugation of the Diatomaceae will ultimately throw light on the subject? But the other day I came to the conclusion that some day we shall have cases of young being produced from spermatozoa or pollen without ...

— More Letters of Charles Darwin - Volume I (of II) • Charles Darwin

... to be serious, and, having grasped the armful of wood, he began to repeat as he ran, "The conjugation of the verb—consists in its variations according to number—according to ...

— Cuore (Heart) - An Italian Schoolboy's Journal • Edmondo De Amicis

... differ very widely with regard to the conjugation of this verb; there is no doubt, however, that from every point of view the preferable forms for the preterite and past participle are respectively ate and eaten. To refined ears the other forms smack of vulgarity, although ...

— The Verbalist • Thomas Embly Osmun, (AKA Alfred Ayres)

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