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Brood vs Reflect - What's the difference?

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In transitive terms the difference between brood and reflect

is that brood is to protect while reflect is to give evidence of someone's or something's character etc.

In intransitive terms the difference between brood and reflect

is that brood is to dwell upon moodily and at length while reflect is (think seriously) To think seriously; to ponder or consider.

As a noun brood

is the young of certain animals, especially a group of young birds or fowl hatched at one time by the same mother.

brood

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • The young of certain animals, especially a group of young birds or fowl hatched at one time by the same mother.
  • * Bible, Luke xiii. 34
    • As a hen doth gather her brood under her wings.
  • (uncountable) The young of any egg-laying creature, especially if produced at the same time.
  • The eggs and larvae of social insects such as bees, ants and some wasps, especially when gathered together in special brood chambers or combs within the colony.
  • The children in one family.
  • That which is bred or produced; breed; species.
  • * Chapman
    • Flocks of the airy brood , / (Cranes, geese or long-necked swans).
  • (mining) Heavy waste in tin and copper ores.

    • See also

    * flock, litter, young, get, issue, offspring, posterity, progeny, seed, kin * cicada

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To keep an egg warm to make it hatch.
    • In some species of birds, both the mother and father brood the eggs.
  • To protect.
    • Under the rock was a midshipman fish, brooding a mass of eggs.
  • To dwell upon moodily and at length.
    • He sat brooding about the upcoming battle, fearing the outcome.
  • * Nathaniel Hawthorne
    • Brooding over all these matters, the mother felt like one who has evoked a spirit.
  • * Tennyson
    • when with downcast eyes we muse and brood

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    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.

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