reflecting
Speech parts
1. reflecting - Noun
2. reflecting - Adjective
3. reflecting - Verb
5. reflecting - Adjective Satellite
Meaning
of Reflect
Throwing back light, heat, etc., as a mirror or other surface.
Given to reflection or serious consideration; reflective; contemplative; as, a reflecting mind.
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Examples
Women have served all these centuries as looking glasses possessing the power of reflecting the figure of man at twice its natural size.
To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
When reflecting upon it today, that the Pearl Harbor attack should have succeeded in achieving surprise seems a blessing from Heaven. It was clear that a great American fleet had been concentrated in Pearl Harbor, and we supposed that the state of alert would be very high.
In the short-run, the market is a voting machine - reflecting a voter-registration test that requires only money, not intelligence or emotional stability - but in the long- run, the market is a weighing machine.
Knowledge is ancient error reflecting on its youth.
A work of art is a world in itself reflecting senses and emotions of the artist's world. Just as a flower, by virtue of its existence as a complete organism is both ornamental and self-sufficient as to color, form, and texture, so art, because of its singular existence is more than mere ornament.