Reckon vs Reflect - What's the difference?
reckon | reflect |
To count; to enumerate; to number; also, to compute; to calculate.
* ...then the priest shall reckon unto him the money according to the years that remain... --Lev. 27:18, King James Version .
To count as in a number, rank, or series; to estimate by rank or quality; to place by estimation; to account; to esteem; to repute.
* He was reckoned among the transgressors. Luke 23:37, King James Version
* For him I reckon not in high estate. .
To charge, attribute, or adjudge to one, as having a certain quality or value.
* ...faith was reckoned to Abraham for righteousness. Romans 4:9, King James Version.
* Without her eccentricities being reckoned to her for a crime. .
To conclude, as by an enumeration and balancing of chances; hence, to think; to suppose; -- followed by an objective clause;
* For I reckon that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us. --Romans 8:18, King James Version.
* Likewise reckon ye also yourselves to be dead indeed unto sin... --Romans 6:11, King James Version
* I reckon he won't try that again.
To make an enumeration or computation; to engage in numbering or computing.
To come to an accounting; to make up accounts; to settle; to examine and strike the balance of debt and credit; to adjust relations of desert or penalty.
* Parfay," sayst thou, sometime he reckon shall." .
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 lang=en terms the difference between reckon and reflect
is that reckon is to make an enumeration or computation; to engage in numbering or computing while reflect is to give evidence of someone's or something's character etc.As verbs the difference between reckon and reflect
is that reckon is to count; to enumerate; to number; also, to compute; to calculate while reflect is to bend back (light, etc) from a surface.reckon
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Alternative forms
* (l) (obsolete)Verb
(en verb)- I reckoned above two hundred and fifty on the outside of the church. .
Derived terms
* reckon for * reckon on, reckon upon * reckon with * reckon withoutSynonyms
* number * enumerate * compute * calculate * estimate * value * esteem * account * reputeSee also
* calculate * guessReferences
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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.
