mirror

Betekenis (Engels)

Noun

1. A smooth surface, usually made of glass with reflective material painted on the underside, that reflects light so as to give an image of what is in front of it.
2. (figuratively) An object, person, or event that reflects or gives a picture of another.
3. (Internet) A website or server that contains replicated data from another site.
4. A mirror carp.
5. (historical) A kind of political self-help book, advising kings, princes, etc. on how to behave.

Verb

1. (transitive) To reflect, as in a mirror.
2. (transitive) To act as a reflection of, either by being identical to, or by being identical but reversed.
3. (transitive) Of an event, activity, behavior, to be identical to; to be a copy of; to imitate closely.
4. (Internet, transitive) To create something identical to (a website, etc.).

Concepten

spiegel

🪞

speigel

afspiegelen

weerspiegelen

weerkaatsen

reflecteren

terugkaatsen

toonbeeld

wikken

zinnen

zinnen op

achteruitkijkspiegel

toonvoorbeeld

bedenken

model

nadenken

overdenken

spiegelen

🪞

Synoniemen

looking-glass

glass

looking glass

reflect

reflection

reflector

echo

window

🪟

speculum

panel

example

eyeglasses

👓

rear-view mirror

think

🤔

reflect on

reflex

reflexion

model

paragon

return

photograph

ponder

project

reflective

reflexive

render

represent

representation

reverberate

reverberation

reverberator

sample

server

spectacles

👓

specular

spirit

think about

hand-mirror

powder-set

reflecting mirror

table-mirror

keeking-glass

reflecting curtain

attend to

beam reflector

catoptric

contrive

copy

crystal

deflector

Vertalingen

miroir

🪞

espejo

🪞

Spiegel

🪞

specchio

🪞

glace

🧊

mirall

🪞

espelho

🪞

ayna

🪞

espill

speculum

🪞

مرآة

🪞

καθρέφτης

miralh

Uitgesproken als (IPA)

/ˈmɪ.ɹə/

Etymologie (Engels)

Overgenomen van Middelengels: mirour

In summary

From Middle English mirour, from Old French mireor (“mirror”, literally “looker, watcher”), from mirer (“look at”), from Latin mīror (“wonder at”), from mīrus (“wonderful”), from Proto-Indo-European *smey- (“to laugh, to be glad”). Displaced native Middle English schewere, schawere, from Old English sċēawere (“mirror”, literally “watcher”), which was also the word for "spy".

Zinnen

Sunday Mirror thought Goodman was at the core of the game .

Sunday Mirror dacht dat Goodman de kern van het spel stond.