Reflect vs Inflect - What's the difference?
reflect | inflect |
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.
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To cause to curve inwards.
(music) To change the tone or pitch of the voice when speaking or singing.
(grammar) To vary the form of a word to express tense, gender, number, mood, etc.
In lang=en terms the difference between reflect and inflect
is that reflect is to give evidence of someone's or something's character etc while inflect is to cause to curve inwards.As verbs the difference between reflect and inflect
is that reflect is to bend back (light, etc) from a surface while inflect is to cause to curve inwards.reflect
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.
