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Reflect   /rəflˈɛkt/  /rɪflˈɛkt/   Listen
verb
Reflect  v. t.  (past & past part. reflected; pres. part. reflecting)  
1.
To bend back; to give a backward turn to; to throw back; especially, to cause to return after striking upon any surface; as, a mirror reflects rays of light; polished metals reflect heat. "Let me mind the reader to reflect his eye on our quotations." "Bodies close together reflect their own color."
2.
To give back an image or likeness of; to mirror. "Nature is the glass reflecting God, As by the sea reflected is the sun."



Reflect  v. i.  
1.
To throw back light, heat, or the like; to return rays or beams.
2.
To be sent back; to rebound as from a surface; to revert; to return. "Whose virtues will, I hope, Reflect on Rome, as Titan's rays on earth."
3.
To throw or turn back the thoughts upon anything; to contemplate. Specifically: To attend earnestly to what passes within the mind; to attend to the facts or phenomena of consciousness; to use attention or earnest thought; to meditate; especially, to think in relation to moral truth or rules. "We can not be said to reflect upon any external object, except so far as that object has been previously perceived, and its image become part and parcel of our intellectual furniture." "All men are concious of the operations of their own minds, at all times, while they are awake, but there few who reflect upon them, or make them objects of thought." "As I much reflected, much I mourned."
4.
To cast reproach; to cause censure or dishonor. "Errors of wives reflect on husbands still." "Neither do I reflect in the least upon the memory of his late majesty."
Synonyms: To consider; think; cogitate; mediate; contemplate; ponder; muse; ruminate.






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"Reflect" Quotes from Famous Books



... international transportation through the key Black Sea ports of P'ot'i and Bat'umi. Statistical estimates on Georgia are subject to a particularly wide margin of error, even compared with other FSU countries. The GDP estimate below probably does not reflect much of its grass roots economic activity. GDP is supplemented by considerable EU and US ...
— The 1996 CIA Factbook • United States. Central Intelligence Agency.

... fostering literary, dramatic and debating societies where not alone the practical art of speaking is developed, but the social amenities of good society are practised, that the young priest can be equipped to efficiently discharge the high office awaiting him, and so reflect a lasting credit on the Church of God at ...
— The Young Priest's Keepsake • Michael Phelan

... not by Phidias nor by Praxiteles, it may not even be Greek; it may be some cheap copy, made for a garden or a bath, in the days of Hadrian. But to the artist of the fifteenth century it is the revelation of a whole world, a world in itself. We can scarcely realize all this; but let us look and reflect, and even we may feel as must have felt the man of the Renaissance in the presence of that mutilated, stained, battered torso. He sees in that broken stump a grandeur of outline, a magnificence of osseous ...
— The Contemporary Review, Volume 36, September 1879 • Various

... few mornings before. The returned soldier had gained in health, but not in spirits. The rapture of reaching home once more, the flush of hope and happiness, had passed away with the visitors who had flocked to offer their congratulations. He had had time to reflect: he had reached home, indeed; but now every moment reminded him how soon that home was to be taken from him. He looked at his wife and children, and clenched his teeth hard to stifle the emotions that arose at the thought of their future. The sweet serenity, the faith and patience ...
— The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 96, October 1865 • Various

... overlooked need not despair for that reason, if he will reflect that criticism can neither make nor unmake authors; that there have not been greater books since criticism became an art than there were before; that in fact the greatest books seem to ...
— Henry James, Jr. • William Dean Howells


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