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.
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- 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
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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.
}}
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