mirror
镜子,镜像,镜面,镜鉴
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Definitions
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- : a reflecting surface, originally of polished metal but now usually of glass with a silvery, metallic, or amalgam backing.
- : such a surface set into a frame, attached to a handle, etc., for use in viewing oneself or as an ornament.
- : any reflecting surface, as the surface of calm water under certain lighting conditions.
- : Optics. a surface that is either plane, concave, or convex and that reflects rays of light.
- : something that gives a minutely faithful representation, image, or idea of something else: Gershwin's music was a mirror of its time.
- : a pattern for imitation; exemplar: a man who was the mirror of fashion.
- : a glass, crystal, or the like, used by magicians, diviners, etc.
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- : to reflect in or as if in a mirror.
- : to reflect as a mirror does.
- : to mimic or imitate accurately.
- : to be or give a faithful representation, image, or idea of: Her views on politics mirror mine completely.
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- : Music. capable of being played in retrograde or in inversion, as though read in a mirror placed beside or below the music.
Synonyms & Antonyms
Examples
After a while she couldn't look herself in the mirror because no matter what she did, the President would undermine it and make Americans less safe.
My thoughts on Malcolm X mirrored those of Laurence Fishburne.
If you look at yourself from the side in a full-length mirror, check out how much your lower back curves.
The MBA strategy has worked so well that it’s been awarded a $450,000 grant from the Kaufman Foundation to build a playbook so other cities can replicate its results, with 20 different cities currently mirroring the Cincinnati model.
Seeing more severe disease in younger adults with underlying conditions mirrors findings from larger populations that include people from other age groups, says Aaron Milstone, a pediatric infectious disease specialist at Johns Hopkins University.
With the midterm elections safely in the rearview mirror, Obama is on legacy patrol.
In it, he finds a large mirror, and when he looks into the mirror, he sees his parents standing behind him.
He runs to find his friend Ron to show him his parents in the mirror.
But when Ron looks into the mirror, he sees himself being carried on the shoulders of his teammates, the hero who won the game.
But she is, in her way, holding a mirror up to nature, and objects in this mirror may be closer than they appear.
A child begins to make acquaintance with the images of things when set before a mirror.
The lady of the roses went to the mirror over the untidy mantel piece, and looked at herself, as she answered.
A mirror, turned towards an open door, disclosed the lovelorn Hephzibah in the next room.
She turned her gaze away from the mirror, and saw Sarah's grey head inadvertently nodding, as it always nodded.
From his waistcoat pocket he took a little silver convex mirror and surveyed himself critically therein.