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Reflects vs Reelects - What's the difference?

reflects | reelects |

As verbs the difference between reflects and reelects

is that reflects is (reflect) while reelects is .

reflects

English

Verb

(head)
  • (reflect)

  • reflect

    English

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To bend back (light, etc.) from a surface.
  • A mirror reflects the light that shines on it.
  • To be bent back (light, etc.) from a surface.
  • The moonlight reflected from the surface of water.
  • To mirror, or show the image of something.
  • The shop window reflected his image as he walked past.
  • To be mirrored.
  • His image reflected from the shop window as he walked past.
  • To agree with; to closely follow.
  • Entries in English dictionaries aim to reflect common usage.
  • To give evidence of someone's or something's character etc.
  • 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
  • (senseid) To think seriously; to ponder or consider.
  • People do that sort of thing every day, without ever stopping to reflect on the consequences.
  • * 1985 , , Option Lock , page 229:
  • 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.

    Synonyms

    * See also
    Derived terms
    * reflective * reflexion * unreflective * nonreflective * reflectorize

    reelects

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (reelect)
  • Anagrams

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    reëlect

    English

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • * {{quote-book
  • , year = 1914 , title = Cyclopedia of American Government , volume = 3 , first = Andrew Cunningham , last = McLaughlin , coauthors = Hart, Albert Bushnell , location = New York; London , publisher = D. Appleton , section = keyword Texas , page = 532 , pageurl = http://books.google.com/books?id=X_8tAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA532&dq=reëlect , passage = All judges are elected, and there is a strong tendency to reëlect indefinitely. }}