reflect

reflect
    v 1: manifest or bring back; "This action reflects his true
         beliefs"
    2: reflect deeply on a subject; "I mulled over the events of the
       afternoon"; "philosophers have speculated on the question of
       God for thousands of years"; "The scientist must stop to
       observe and start to excogitate" [syn: {chew over}, {think
       over}, {meditate}, {ponder}, {excogitate}, {contemplate},
       {muse}, {reflect}, {mull}, {mull over}, {ruminate},
       {speculate}]
    3: to throw or bend back (from a surface); "Sound is reflected
       well in this auditorium" [syn: {reflect}, {reverberate}]
    4: be bright by reflecting or casting light; "Drive carefully--
       the wet road reflects" [syn: {reflect}, {shine}]
    5: show an image of; "her sunglasses reflected his image"
    6: give evidence of a certain behavior; "His lack of interest in
       the project reflects badly on him"
    7: give evidence of the quality of; "The mess in his dorm room
       reflects on the student"
    

Reflect \Re*flect"\ v. i.
   1. To throw back light, heat, or the like; to return rays or
      beams.
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   2. To be sent back; to rebound as from a surface; to revert;
      to return.
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            Whose virtues will, I hope,
            Reflect on Rome, as Titan's rays on earth. --Shak.
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   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.
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            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. --Sir W.
                                                  Hamilton.
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            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.                              --Reid.
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            As I much reflected, much I mourned.  --Prior.
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   4. To cast reproach; to cause censure or dishonor.
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            Errors of wives reflect on husbands still. --Dryden.
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            Neither do I reflect in the least upon the memory of
            his late majesty.                     --Swift.
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   Syn: To consider; think; cogitate; mediate; contemplate;
        ponder; muse; ruminate.
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Reflect \Re*flect"\ (r?*fl?kt"), v. t. [imp. & p. p.
   {Reflected}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Reflecting}.] [L. reflectere,
   reflexum; pref. re- re- + flectere to bend or turn. See
   {Flexible}, and cf. {Reflex}, v.]
   1. To bend back; to give a backwa?d 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.
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            Let me mind the reader to reflect his eye on our
            quotations.                           --Fuller.
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            Bodies close together reflect their own color.
                                                  --Dryden.
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   2. To give back an image or likeness of; to mirror.
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            Nature is the glass reflecting God,
            As by the sea reflected is the sun.   --Young.
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      borrow, bounce back, bow, bring, bring back, bring to light,
      bring to mind, brood, brood over, call attention to, call back,
      call to mind, call up, cast, cerebrate, chew over, chew the cud,
      chorus, cogitate, comment, con over, conjure up, consider,
      contemplate, copy, counterfeit, crib, crook, curl, curve, debate,
      decurve, deflect, deliberate, deliberate over, deliberate upon,
      demonstrate, digest, disclose, display, ditto, do, do like, dome,
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      exemplify, exhibit, expose, fake, figure, flex, foreshadow, forge,
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      hook, hump, hunch, illustrate, image, imitate, impersonate,
      incarnate, incurvate, incurve, indicate, inflect, interject,
      introspect, lay bare, let drop, let fall, look back, loop,
      make like, make reference to, meditate, meditate upon, mention,
      mind, mirror, mull over, muse, muse on, muse over, note, observe,
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      play with, point to, ponder, ponder over, prefigure, pretypify,
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      reflex, remark, remember, repeat, reproduce, retrace, retroflex,
      retrospect, return, reveal, review, review in retrospect, revive,
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      see in retrospect, send back, shadow, shadow forth, show, simulate,
      speak, speculate, study, suggest, summon up, swag, sweep,
      think back, think of, think over, throw, throw back, toy with,
      turn, turn over, uncover, use hindsight, vault, weigh, wind