Recap vs Reflect - What's the difference?
recap | reflect |
To seal (something) again with a cap.
To recapitulate.
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 recap and reflect
is that recap is to seal (something) again with a cap while reflect is to bend back (light, etc.) from a surface.As a noun recap
is a recapitulation.recap
English
Etymology 1
re- + capVerb
Etymology 2
Shortened from recapitulate/recapitulationSynonyms
* (recapitulation) summarisation/summarization, summary, summing-upVerb
(recapp)Synonyms
* (recapitulate) summarise/summarize, sum upAnagrams
* * * English heteronymsreflect
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.