Imagine vs Reflect - What's the difference?
imagine | reflect |
To form a mental image of something; to envision or create something in one's mind.
* Shakespeare
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To assume.
To conjecture or guess.
To use one's imagination.
(obsolete) To contrive in purpose; to scheme; to devise.
* Bible, Psalms lxii. 3
To bend back (light, etc.) from a surface.
To be bent back (light, etc.) from a surface.
To mirror, or show the image of something.
To be mirrored.
To agree with; to closely follow.
To give evidence of someone's or something's character etc.
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(senseid) To think seriously; to ponder or consider.
* 1985 , , Option Lock , page 229:
In transitive terms the difference between imagine and reflect
is that imagine is to conjecture or guess while reflect is to give evidence of someone's or something's character etc.In intransitive terms the difference between imagine and reflect
is that imagine is to use one's imagination while reflect is (think seriously) To think seriously; to ponder or consider.imagine
English
Verb
- In the night, imagining some fear, / How easy is a bush supposed a bear!
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- How long will ye imagine mischief against a man?
Usage notes
* This is a catenative verb that takes the gerund (-ing) . SeeSynonyms
* (l)Derived terms
* imaginable * imaginal * imaginary * imagination * imaginativereflect
English
Verb
(en verb)- A mirror reflects the light that shines on it.
- The moonlight reflected from the surface of water.
- The shop window reflected his image as he walked past.
- His image reflected from the shop window as he walked past.
- Entries in English dictionaries aim to reflect common usage.
- The team's victory reflects the Captain's abilities.
- The teacher's ability reflects well on the school.
- With fresh material, taxonomic conclusions are leavened by recognition that the material examined reflects the site it occupied; a herbarium packet gives one only a small fraction of the data desirable for sound conclusions. Herbarium material does not, indeed, allow one to extrapolate safely: what you see is what you get
- People do that sort of thing every day, without ever stopping to reflect on the consequences.
- Not for the first time, he reflected that it was not so much the speeches that strained the nerves as the palaver that went with them.