different between reflect vs heliotrope

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)

1. (transitive) To bend back (light, etc.) from a surface.

   A mirror reflects the light that shines on it.

2. (intransitive) To be bent back (light, etc.) from a surface.

   The moonlight reflected from the surface of water.

3. (transitive) To mirror, or show the image of something.

   The shop window reflected his image as he walked past.

4. (intransitive) To be mirrored.

   His image reflected from the shop window as he walked past.

5. (transitive) To agree with; to closely follow.

   Entries in English dictionaries aim to reflect common usage.

6. (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.
8. (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.

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:ponder

Derived terms

Translations

English

Etymology

From French héliotrope, from Ancient Greek ??????????? (h?liotrópion), from ????? (h?lios, “sun”) + ????? (trép?, “turn”). See also Old English sunnfolgend.

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /?hi?li.??t?o?p/

Noun

heliotrope (countable and uncountable, plural heliotropes)

1. (botany) A plant that turns so that it faces the sun.
   1. (botany) Particularly, a purple-flowered plant of the species Heliotropium arborescens.
      • 1870, Benjamin Disraeli, Lothair

        As they entered now, it seemed a blaze of roses and carnations, though one recognized in a moment the presence of the lily, the heliotrope, and the stock.

2. A light purple or violet colour.
3. The fragrance of heliotrope flowers.
   • 1881, Henry James, The Portrait of a Lady

     ... he had always smelt so much more of heliotrope than of gunpowder.

   • 1906, O. Henry, The Furnished Room

     Ransacking the drawers of the dresser he came upon a discarded, tiny, ragged handkerchief. He pressed it to his face. It was racy and insolent with heliotrope; [...]

4. (mineralogy) A bloodstone (a variety of quartz).
5. (surveying) An instrument, employed in triangulation, that uses a mirror to reflect sunlight toward another, very distant, surveyor.

Synonyms

• (Heliotropium arborescens): cherry pie, common heliotrope
• (rock): bloodstone

Related terms

• (direction): heliotropism

Translations

Adjective

heliotrope (comparative more heliotrope, superlative most heliotrope)

1. Light purple or violet.
   • 1904, Jerome K. Jerome, Tommy and Co.

     Lady in a heliotrope dress with a lace collar, three flounces on the skirt?

   • 1917, Zane Grey, Wildfire

     And following that was a tortuous passage through a weird region of clay dunes, blue and violet and heliotrope and lavender, all worn smooth by rain and wind.

2. Keeping one’s face turned toward the sun.
   • 1851, Herman Melville, Moby Dick

     while still as on the night before, slouched Ahab stood fixed within his scuttle; his hid, heliotrope glance anticipatingly gone backward on its dial; sat due eastward for the earliest sun.

Derived terms

• (colour): heliotrope cyanosis

Related terms

• (direction): heliotropic

Derived terms

• winter heliotrope

See also

• Appendix:Colors