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mirror
English
Alternative forms
- mirrour (obsolete)
Etymology
From Middle English mirour, from Old French mireor, from mirer (“look at”), from Latin m?ror (“wonder at”), from m?rus (“wonderful”), from *smey- (“to laugh, to be glad”). Displaced native Old English s??awere (literally “watcher”), which was also the word for "spy."
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?m?.??/
- (General American) IPA(key): /?mi?.?/, /?m??.?/, /?m??/
- (General New Zealand) IPA(key): /?m?.??/
- Rhymes: -???(?), -??(?), -????(?)
- Homophone: mere (some accents)
Noun
mirror (plural mirrors)
- 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.
- I had a look in the mirror to see if the blood had come off my face.
- We could see the lorry in the mirror, so decided to change lanes.
- (figuratively) An object, person, or event that reflects or gives a picture of another.
- His story is a mirror into the life of orphans growing up.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, Faerie Queene
- O goddess, heavenly bright, / Mirror of grace and majesty divine.
- (computing, Internet) A disk, website or other resource that contains replicated data.
- Although the content had been deleted from his blog, it was still found on some mirrors.
- A mirror carp.
- (historical) A kind of political self-help book, advising kings, princes, etc. on how to behave.
Synonyms
- (reflecting surface): glass (old-fashioned), looking glass (old-fashioned)
Derived terms
Translations
Verb
mirror (third-person singular simple present mirrors, present participle mirroring, simple past and past participle mirrored)
- (transitive) Of an event, activity, behaviour, etc, to be identical to, to be a copy of.
- He tried to mirror Elvis's life. He copied his fashion and his mannerisms, and he even went to live in Graceland.
- (computing, transitive) To create something identical to (a web site, etc.).
- (transitive) To reflect, as in a mirror.
Translations
See also
- cheval glass
- looking glass
mirror From the web:
- what mirror produces a real image
- what mirrorless camera should i buy
- what mirror magnifies
- what mirrors are most accurate
- what mirror where
- what mirror does harry have
- what mirror made of
- what mirror neurons do
handedness
English
Etymology
handed +? -ness
Noun
handedness (countable and uncountable, plural handednesses)
- (chemistry, physics) The property that distinguishes an asymmetric object from its mirror image. For example, the essential difference between a left and right glove.
- A preference (usually innate) for using one hand rather than the other.
Synonyms
- (difference between a left and right): chirality
Hypernyms
- laterality
Hyponyms
- left-handedness
- right-handedness
Related terms
- left-handed
- right-handed
Translations
See also
- chiral
- eyedness
- footedness
handedness From the web:
- what handedness am i
- what handedness is lebron james
- what handedness means
- what handedness in tagalog
- what determines handedness
- what causes handedness
- what does handedness mean
- what is handedness in child development
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