Mull vs Reflect - What's the difference?
mull | reflect |
To work (over) mentally; to cogitate; to ruminate; usually with over.
* 1912 , (Edgar Rice Burroughs), (Tarzan of the Apes), Chapter 5
To powder; to pulverize.
To chop marijuana so that it becomes a smokable form.
To heat and spice something, such as wine.
To join two or more individual windows at mullions.
To dull or stupefy.
A thin, soft muslin.
(uncountable) Marijuana that has been chopped to prepare it for smoking.
A stew of meat, broth, milk, butter, vegetables, and seasonings, thickened with soda crackers.
The gauze used in bookbinding to adhere a text block to a book's cover.
An inferior kind of madder prepared from the smaller roots or the peelings and refuse of the larger.
(Scotland) A promontory.
A snuffbox made of the small end of a horn.
dirt; rubbish
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:
As verbs the difference between mull and reflect
is that mull is to work (over) mentally; to cogitate; to ruminate; usually with over while reflect is to bend back (light, etc.) from a surface.As a noun mull
is a thin, soft muslin.As a proper noun Mull
is an island in the Inner Hebrides.mull
English
Etymology 1
Verb
(en verb)- to mull a thought or a problem
- he paused to mull over his various options before making a decision
- It was the germ of a thought, which, however, was destined to mull around in his conscious and subconscious mind until it resulted in magnificent achievement.
Derived terms
* mulled wine, mulled ciderNoun
Synonyms
* See alsoEtymology 2
Noun
(en noun)- the Mull of Kintyre
Etymology 3
Probably related to mould.Noun
(-)- (Gower)
reflect
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.