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REFLECT
reflect
(verb) give evidence of the quality of; “The mess in his dorm room reflects on the student”
reflect
(verb) give evidence of a certain behavior; “His lack of interest in the project reflects badly on him”
reflect, reverberate
(verb) to throw or bend back (from a surface); “Sound is reflected well in this auditorium”
reflect
(verb) show an image of; “her sunglasses reflected his image”
reflect
(verb) manifest or bring back; “This action reflects his true beliefs”
reflect, shine
(verb) be bright by reflecting or casting light; “Drive carefully--the wet road reflects”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Verb
reflect (third-person singular simple present reflects, present participle reflecting, simple past and past participle reflected)
(transitive) To bend back (light, etc.) from a surface.
(intransitive) To be bent back (light, etc.) from a surface.
(transitive) To mirror, or show the image of something.
(intransitive) To be mirrored.
(transitive) To agree with; to closely follow.
(transitive) To give evidence of someone's or something's character etc.
(intransitive) To think seriously; to ponder or consider.
Synonyms
• See also ponder
Source: Wiktionary
Re*flect" (r*flkt"), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Reflected; p. pr. & vb. n. Reflecting.] Etym: [L. reflectere, reflexum; pref. re- re- + flectere to bend or turn. See Flexible, and cf. Reflex, v.]
1. To bend back; to give a backwaas, a mirror reflects rays of light; polished metals reflect heat. Let me mind the reader to reflect his eye on our quotations. Fuller. Bodies close together reflect their own color. Dryden.
2. To give back an image or likeness of; to mirror. Nature is the glass reflecting God, As by the sea reflected is the sun. Young.
Re*flect" v. i.
1. To throw back light, heat, or the like; to return rays or beams.
2. To be sent back; to rebound as from a surface; to revert; to return. Whose virtues will, I hope, Reflect on Rome, as Titan's rays on earth. Shak.
3. To throw or turn back the thoughts upon anything; to contemplate. Specifically: To attend earnestly to what passes within the mind; to attend to the facts or phenomena of consciousness; to use attention or earnest thought; to meditate; especially, to think in relation to moral truth or rules. We can not be said to reflect upon any external object, except so far as that object has been previously perceived, and its image become part and parcel of our intellectual furniture. Sir W. Hamilton. All men are concious of the operations of their own minds, at all times, while they are awake, but there few who reflect upon them, or make them objects of thought. Reid. As I much reflected, much I mourned. Prior.
4. To cast reproach; to cause censure or dishonor. Errors of wives reflect on husbands still. Dryden. Neither do I reflect in the least upon the memory of his late majesty. Swift.
Syn.
– To consider; think; cogitate; mediate; contemplate; ponder; muse; ruminate.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
Word of the Day
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UNAMBIGUOUS
(adjective) having or exhibiting a single clearly defined meaning; “As a horror, apartheid...is absolutely unambiguous”- Mario Vargas Llosa
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