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Reflects vs Espouses - What's the difference?

reflects | espouses |

As verbs the difference between reflects and espouses

is that reflects is (reflect) while espouses is (espouse).

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

    espouses

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (espouse)

    • espouse

    English

    Verb

    (espous)
  • To become/get married to.
  • To accept, support, or take on as one’s own (an idea or a cause).
  • * 1998 , , Event Structure in Argument Linking , in: Miriam Butt and Wilhelm Geuder, eds., “The Projection of Arguments”, p. 37
    • Although Dowty’s proposal is attractive from the point of view of the alternative argument linking theory that I am espousing , since it eschews the use of thematic roles and thematic role hierarchies, […], but it still has some drawbacks.
  • *
    • Those that espoused this ideology

    Related terms

    * espousal * sponsor * spouse