Mirror vs Shadow - What's the difference?
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A smooth surface, usually made of glass with reflective material painted on the underside, that reflects light so as to give an image of what is in front of it.
(figuratively) an object, person, or event that reflects or gives a picture of another.
* Spenser
(computing) An exact copy of a data set, especially a website.
A mirror carp.
Of an event, activity, behaviour, etc, to be identical to, to be a copy of.
(computing) To create something identical to (a web site, etc.).
To reflect.
A dark image projected onto a surface where light (or other radiation) is blocked by the shade of an object.
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Relative darkness, especially as caused by the interruption of light; gloom, obscurity.
* Denham
* Spenser
(obsolete) A reflected image, as in a mirror or in water.
That which looms as though a shadow.
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A small degree; a shade.
* Bible, James i. 17
An imperfect and faint representation.
* Bible, Hebrews x. 1
* Milton
One who secretly or furtively follows another.
* Milton
A type of lettering form of word processors that makes a cubic effect.
An influence, especially a pervasive or a negative one.
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A spirit; a ghost; a shade.
* Shakespeare
(obsolete, Latinism) An uninvited guest accompanying one who was invited.
To block light or radio transmission.
(espionage) To secretly or discreetly track or follow another, to keep under surveillance.
To accompany a professional during the working day, so as to learn about an occupation one intends to take up.
(programming) To make an identifier, usually a variable, inaccessible by declaring another of the same name within the scope of the first.
(computing) To apply the shadowing process to (the contents of ROM).
In computing terms the difference between mirror and shadow
is that mirror is an exact copy of a data set, especially a website while shadow is to apply the shadowing process to (the contents of ROM).As nouns the difference between mirror and shadow
is that mirror is a smooth surface, usually made of glass with reflective material painted on the underside, that reflects light so as to give an of what is in front of it while shadow is a dark projected onto a surface where light (or other radiation) is blocked by the shade of an object.As verbs the difference between mirror and shadow
is that mirror is of an event, activity, behaviour, etc, to be identical to, to be a copy of while shadow is to block light or radio transmission.mirror
English
(wikipedia mirror)Alternative forms
* mirrour (obsolete)Noun
(en noun)- I had a look in the mirror to see if the blood had come off my face.
- We could see the lorry in the mirror , so decided to change lanes.
- His story is a mirror into the life of orphans growing up.
- O goddess, heavenly bright, / Mirror of grace and majesty divine.
- Although the content had been deleted from his blog, it was still found on some mirrors .
Synonyms
* (reflecting surface) glass (old-fashioned), looking glass (old-fashioned)Derived terms
* do with mirrors * half-silvered mirror * magic mirror * mirror image * one-way mirror * rear-view mirror * two-way mirrorVerb
(en verb)- He tried to mirror Elvis's life. He copied his fashion and his mannerisms, and even went to live in (Graceland).
See also
* cheval glass * looking glassshadow
English
(wikipedia shadow)Noun
(en noun)- Night's sable shadows from the ocean rise.
- In secret shadow from the sunny ray, / On a sweet bed of lilies softly laid.
- (Shakespeare)
- Hepaticology, outside the temperate parts of the Northern Hemisphere, still lies deep in the shadow' cast by that ultimate "closet taxonomist," Franz Stephani—a ghost whose ' shadow falls over us all.
- no variableness, neither shadow of turning
- He came back from war the shadow of a man.
- the law having a shadow of good things to come
- [types] and shadows of that destined seed
- Sin and her shadow Death
- Hence, horrible shadow !
- (Nares)
Usage notes
* A person (or object) is said to "cast", "have", or "throw" a shadow if that shadow is caused by the person (either literally, by eclipsing a light source, or figuratively). The shadow may then be described as the shadow "cast" or "thrown" by the person, or as the shadow "of" the person, or simply as the person's shadow.Derived terms
* backshadowing * foreshadowing * rain shadow * shadow acting * shadow boxing * shadow cabinet * shadow government * shadow minister * shadow play * shadow price * sideshadowing * unshadowVerb
(en verb)- Looks like that cloud's going to shadow us.