different between behold vs reflect
behold
English
Etymology
From Middle English beholden, from Old English behealdan (“to hold, have, occupy, possess, guard, preserve, contain, belong, keep, observe, consider, behold, look at, gaze on, see, signify, avail, effect, take care, beware, be cautious, restrain, act, behave”), from Proto-West Germanic *bihaldan? (“to hold with, keep”), equivalent to be- +? hold. Cognate with Saterland Frisian behoolde (“to keep”), Dutch behouden (“to keep, restrain, preserve”), German behalten (“to keep, restrain, remember”), Danish and Norwegian beholde (“to keep”) and Swedish behålla (“to keep”).
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /b??h??ld/
- (General American) IPA(key): /b??ho?ld/
Verb
behold (third-person singular simple present beholds, present participle beholding, simple past beheld, past participle beheld or (rare) beholden)
- (transitive) To see or look at, esp. appreciatively; to descry, look upon.
- 1885, Richard F. Burton, The Supplemental Nights to the Thousand Nights and a Night, Night 532:
- […] Alaeddin ate and drank and was cheered and after he had rested and had recovered spirits he cried, "Ah, O my mother, I have a sore grievance against thee for leaving me to that accursed wight who strave to compass my destruction and designed to take my life. Know that I beheld Death with mine own eyes at the hand of this damned wretch, whom thou didst certify to be my uncle; […]
- 1885, Richard F. Burton, The Supplemental Nights to the Thousand Nights and a Night, Night 532:
- (intransitive) To look.
- (transitive) To contemplate.
Usage notes
Rarely used in informal speech. The past participle beholden now has a meaning detached from the other forms of the word.
Synonyms
- See Thesaurus:look
Derived terms
- beholder
- eye of the beholder
Translations
Interjection
behold
- look, a call of attention to something
- lo!
Synonyms
- See Thesaurus:lo
Translations
References
- behold in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
- behold in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
Danish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [b?e?h?l?]
Etymology 1
From Middle Low German beholt, behalt, from the verb beholden; see also Danish beholde.
Noun
behold c (uninflected)
- (archaic) haven, refuge
- in the phrases i behold (“intact”) and i god behold (“safe”)
Etymology 2
See the etymology of the main entry.
Verb
behold
- imperative of beholde
Norwegian Bokmål
Verb
behold
- imperative of beholde
behold From the web:
- what behold means
- what holds atoms together
- what holds the nucleus together
- what holds atoms together in a molecule
- what holds bones together
- what holds sister chromatids together
- what holds base pairs together
- what holds ionic compounds together
reflect
English
Etymology
From Old French reflecter (“to bend back, turn back”), from Latin reflect? (“I reflect”), from re- (“again”) + flect? (“I bend, I curve”)
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /???fl?kt/
- Rhymes: -?kt
Verb
reflect (third-person singular simple present reflects, present participle reflecting, simple past and past participle reflected)
- (transitive) To bend back (light, etc.) from a surface.
- A mirror reflects the light that shines on it.
- (intransitive) To be bent back (light, etc.) from a surface.
- The moonlight reflected from the surface of water.
- (transitive) To mirror, or show the image of something.
- The shop window reflected his image as he walked past.
- (intransitive) To be mirrored.
- His image reflected from the shop window as he walked past.
- (transitive) To agree with; to closely follow.
- Entries in English dictionaries aim to reflect common usage.
- (transitive) To give evidence of someone's or something's character etc.
- The team's victory reflects the Captain's abilities.
- The teacher's ability reflects well on the school.
- (intransitive) To think seriously; to ponder or consider.
- 1985, Justin Richards, Option Lock, page 229:
- Not for the first time, he reflected that it was not so much the speeches that strained the nerves as the palaver that went with them.
- 1985, Justin Richards, Option Lock, page 229:
Synonyms
- See also Thesaurus:ponder
Derived terms
Translations
reflect From the web:
- what reflects light
- what reflection
- what reflects all colors
- what reflects energy from the sun in the atmosphere
- what reflects infrared light
- what reflects sunlight
- what reflects heat
- what reflects sound
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