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Definition: Mirror |
MirrorNoun1. Polished surface that forms images by reflecting light. 2. A faithful depiction or reflection; "the best mirror is an old friend". Verb1. Reflect as if in a mirror; "The smallest pond at night mirrors the firmament above.". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "mirror" was first used: sometime around 1250. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Computing | Mirror 1. |
Dream Interpretation | To dream of seeing yourself in a mirror, denotes that you will meet many discouraging issues, and sickness will cause you distress and loss in fortune. To see a broken mirror, foretells the sudden or violent death of some one related to you. To see others in a mirror, denotes that others will act unfairly towards you to promote their own interests. To see animals in a mirror, denotes disappointment and loss in fortune. For a young woman to break a mirror, foretells unfortunate friendships and an unhappy marriage. To see her lover in a mirror looking pale and careworn, denotes death or a broken engagement. If he seems happy, a slight estrangement will arise, but it will be of short duration. Source: Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted .... |
Fine Arts | Reflex camera. Type of a camera incorporating a ground glass screen on top of the body which receives an image via a 45 degrees --. Source: European Union. (references) |
Medicine | A device which throws back rays of light or heat or waves of sound ; one or more conducting surfaces so shaped as to reflect the energy from and to modify the radiation pattern of a primary radiator or array. Source: European Union. (references) |
Physics | A regular smooth surface having a high reflectivity. Source: European Union. (references) |
Post & Telecom | A reflecting surface used as a component in an aerial. Source: European Union. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
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''Separate articles treat the newspapers called the Daily Mirror and the Sunday Mirror, the computing term mirror, and the Mirror Dinghy.
A mirror is a reflective surface that is smooth enough to be able to form an image. The best known example is the plane mirror that most people have at home. In it, a parallel beam of light changes its direction as a whole, whilst still remaining parallel; the images formed by a plane mirror are virtual images, of the same size as the original object (see mirror image). There are also parabolic concave mirrors, where a parallel beam of light becomes a convergent beam, whose rays intersect in the focus of the mirror. Finally, there are convex mirrors, where a parallel beam becomes divergent, with the apparent intersection occurring behind the mirror. Note that spherical concave and convex mirrors do not have a single focal point, as often erroneously described in high school physics text books.
Early mirrors consisted of a plate or sheet of polished metal, often silver when the reflected image was for viewing (such as for personal grooming) but also of other metals when only the intensity of reflected light was important.
Modern mirrors usually consist of a thin layer of aluminium (or sometimes other metals) deposited on a sheet of glass. They are usually back silvered, where the reflecting surface is viewed through the glass sheet; this makes the mirror durable, but lowers the image quality of the mirror due to extraneous reflections from the front surface of the glass. This type of mirror reflects about 80% of the incident light. Front silvered mirrors, where the reflecting surface is placed on the front surface of the glass, have a better image quality but are easily scratched and damaged. They reflect 90% to 95% of the incident light. Astronomical mirrors are of the latter type, and they have to be resurfaced every now and then to keep their quality.
For scientific optical work, dielectric mirrors are often used. These are glass (or sometimes other material) substrates on which one or more layers of dielectric material are deposited, to form an optical coating. By careful choice of the type and thickness of the dielectric layers, the range of wavelengths and amount of light reflected from the mirror can be specified. The best mirrors of this type can reflect >99.999% of the light (in a narrow range of wavelengths) which is incident on the mirror.
A beam of light reflects off of a mirror at an angle of reflection that is equal to its angle of incidence. That is, if the beam of light is shining on a mirror's surface at a 30° angle from vertical, then it reflects from the point of incidence at a 30° angle from vertical in the opposite direction.
Mirrors do not actually reverse left and right.
Rear-view mirrors are applied in and on vehicles.
There exist rear view sunglasses, of which the left end of the left glass and the right end of the right glass work as mirrors.
A one-way mirror reflects about half of the light and lets the other half pass. It is a sheet of glass coated so thinly with metal molecules that these cover half of the surface. It is applied between a dark room and a brightly lit room. From the dark side it looks like a transparent window and from the brightly lit side like a mirror. It may be used to observe criminal suspects, customers (to watch out for theft), etc. The same type of mirror, when used in an optical instrument, is called a half-silvered mirror. Its purpose is to split a beam of light so that half passes straight through, while the other half is reflected.
A decorative reflecting sphere of thin metal-coated glass, working as a reducing wide-angle mirror, is sold in the period before Christmas, to be used as Christmas tree decoration called a bauble.
See also: periscope.
External link:
- mirror.sytes.org: only images are truly mirrored as in real life; text are simply in reversed letter order.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Mirror."
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A mirror, in computing, is a server dedicated for having duplicate content of another server. This is done for several reasons:
- to allow faster downloads for users in one area: for example, a US server could be mirrored in Japan, allowing Japanese Internet users to download content faster from the Japanese server than the American
- to balance load - if one server is extremely popular a mirror may help relieve this load: for example if a Linux distribution is released as an ISO image onto the distribution producer's own server, this server may be overloaded with demand and so mirrors may help reduce the load off this main server
- to keep historic content: economic reasons may prevent the maintainers of a server from keeping older and unsupported content for users who still may desire them - a mirror may be made to keep this content from disappearing
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Mirror (computing)."
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The Mirror Dinghy is a highly successful pram dinghy, with more than 70,000 built.The Mirror was named after the Daily Mirror, a UK newspaper with a largely working class readership. The Mirror was from the start promoted as an affordable boat, and it has probably done more than any other design to make dinghy sailing in the UK a sport available to anyone. Although most popular in the UK, Mirrors are also used in other countries, notably Australia.
The Mirror is of marine plywood construction, the sheets of ply being held together with copper stitching and fibreglass tape. Bouyancy is provided by integral chambers rather than by bags. It was originally designed to be built with simple tools and little experience, and this meant that the design was quite unsophisticated - for example, a simple daggerboard is used instead of a hinged centreboard. The result, however, was a robust and versatile boat that can be easily maintained, and repaired, and can also be got into the water very quickly from storage or transport. Although most experienced sailors would carry a paddle rather than oars, if necessary it can be rowed reasonably easily. If the transom is strengthened, an outboard motor can be carried. Its standing lug rig, with a gaff that effectively doubles the height of the mast, means that the spars can be packed inside the hull for easy storage or transportation.
All these features make the Mirror a first class choice for children or teenagers learning sailing for the first time. Because of the very large number that have been made, it is fairly easy to find other Mirror sailors to cruise or race with.
The Mirror is light and stable enough to be sailed safely by two young teenagers; it is a little cramped for two adults. It can be sailed single-handed by dispensing with the jib. On the other hand, it can carry a spinnaker.
The Mirror will never be the fastest boat on the water, or the most elegant, but it holds a special place in the affections of a large number of dinghy sailors.
External Site
- http://www.ukmirrorsailing.com/
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Mirror Dinghy."
| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
MIRROR | English | Microgravity Industry Related Research for Oil Recovery | Transportation |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Imitation | Verb: imitate, copy, mirror, reflect, reproduce, repeat; do like, echo, reecho, catch; transcribe; match, parallel. |
Manifestation | Verb: make manifest, render manifest; Adjective: bring forth, bring forward, bring to the front, bring into view; give notice; express; represent, set forth, exhibit; show, show up; expose; produce; hold up to view, expose to view; set before one, place before one, lay before one, one's eyes; tell to one's face; trot out, put through one's paces, bring to light, display, demonstrate, unroll; lay open; draw out, bring out; bring out in strong relief; call into notice, bring into notice; hold up the mirror; wear one's heart upon his sleeve; show one's face, show one's colors; manifest oneself; speak out; make no mystery, make no secret of; unfurl the flag; proclaim; (publish). |
Perfection | Model, standard, pattern, mirror, admirable Crichton; trump, very prince of. |
Representation | Personate, personify; impersonate; assume a character; pose as; act; play; (drama); mimic; (imitate); hold the mirror up to nature. |
Repute | Chief; (master); first fiddle; (proficient); cynosure, mirror; flower, pink, pearl; paragon; (perfection); choice and master spirits of the age; elite; star,.sun, constellation, galaxy. ornament, honor, feather in one's cap, halo, aureole, nimbus; halo of glory, blaze of glory, blushing honors; laurels; (trophy). |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | Since you like chicks, right, do you just look at yourself naked in the mirror all the time (Chasing Amy; writing credit: Kevin Smith.) Stop wearing out that mirror! (The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert; writing credit: Stephan Elliott.) The car's shadow's going the wrong way, the steering wheel's on the wrong side, there's no brake pedal, the words in the mirror should be backwards, the man's watch wouldn't say twelve o'clock if he was looking at a sunset, and I have red paint on my ass. That's right -- red paint all over my ass (Malcolm in the Middle; writing credit: Daniel Frenette) I was supposed to get a haircut but when I looked in the mirror, I realized my hair was already perfect (Digimon: Digital Monsters; writing credit: Dayna Barron) Looking in the mirror every day and seeing nothing there (Buffy the Vampire Slayer; writing credit: Doreen Spicer) | |
Lyrics | The Mirror (Man In The Mirror; performing artist: Michael Jackson; writing credit: Siedah Garrett and Glen Ballard) Look in the mirror, there is a picture (Thank U In Advance; performing artist: Boyz II Men) Starin' at the faces in her rearview mirror (Only In America; performing artist: Brooks & Dunn) I check myself out in the mirror I wanna change my clothes my hair my face (DANCING IN THE DARK; performing artist: Bruce Springsteen) You had one eye on the mirror as you watched yourself gavotte (YOU'RE SO VAIN; performing artist: Carly Simon) | |
Clever | Look at life through the windshield, not the rear-view mirror. (references; author: unknown) To find the person you can truly trust, look no further than the nearest mirror. (references; author: unknown) The biggest liar you'll ever have to deal with probably watches you shave his face in the mirror every morning. (references; author: unknown) | |
Tongue Twisters | It's the right light with the glimmer in the mirror. (references; author: unknown) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Devil's Mirror (1972) The Magic Mirror (1970) Mirror Off the Wall Mirror (1969) Goodbye in the Mirror (1965) Crack in the Mirror (1960) | |
Song Titles | Mirror Mirror (performing artist: M2M) Man In The Mirror (performing artist: Michael Jackson) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Three drawings of individuals checking themselves during a skin self exam. First is a man standing, examing his back in a mirror; second, a woman sitting on stool examing her feet; third, woman checking face in hand mirror. Credit: Jeanne Kelly (artist). |  | An older woman in a magenta blouse stands in front of a full length mirror. See artwork: GR-42. Credit: Bill Branson (photographer). |
 | Hubble Images of M100 Before and After Mirror Repair. Credit: NASA. |  | Solar Mirror. Credit: NASA. |
 | A Nansen bottle coming out of the water on a nearly mirror smooth sea. Credit: Fisheries. |  | This mirror image reflection is what you might encounter on a quiet morning in the back waters of Squaw Lake. Credit: Lori Cook. |
 | Gary Banta at Mirror Lake on Revilla Island near Ketchikan. Credit: Alaska Historical Image Library. |  | U.S. Army, Bushnell General Hospital, Brigham City, UT. : Amputee learning to walk by observing himself in wall mirror. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |
 | Gymnastics - Medical : Nurse working with patient's face in front of mirror. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |  | Seated female figure with mirror adjusting her dress while a winged hand maiden attends to her hair ; Female figure seated in klismos chair while figure of Eros or Cupid, assisted by hand maiden, washes her feet. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| "Mirror" by R. Barbara Pogacar Commentary: "Mirror of hill and trees on lakes's surface." | "Mirror" by Sergey Lebedev Commentary: "Moskivskiy Park Pobedy." |
Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers. | |
| Play | Caption |
 | Dentist clinking the mouth mirror against someone's tooth. |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Author | Quotation |
Arthur Schopenhauer | Books are like a mirror. If an ass looks in, you can't expect an angel to look out. |
Baltasar Gracian | A beautiful woman should break her mirror early. |
George Herbert | The best mirror is an old friend. |
Goethe | Behavior is a mirror in which every one displays his image. |
Henri B. Stendhal | A novel is a mirror carried along a main road. |
Ovid | The time will come when it will disgust you to look in the mirror. |
Publilius Syrus | Speech is a mirror of the soul: as a man speaks, so is he. |
St. Jerome | The face is the mirror of the mind, and eyes without speaking confess the secrets of the heart. |
Walter Cronkite | Our job is only to hold up the mirror -- to tell and show the public what has happened. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | |
| Title | Author | Quote |
Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency | Douglas Adams | He had a sudden thought and tried breathing on the rear-view mirror. Nothing |
Scarlet Letter | Hawthorne, Nathaniel | The soul beheld its features in the mirror of the passing moment |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | The mirror reflected the writing |
Trainspotting | Irvine Welsh | Renton knows how difficult it is. He'd spent many an evening practising the skill in front of the mirror, but both brows kept elevating simultaneously |
Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | She was trying to see it in a mirror behind the counter without letting the truck driver know, and so she pretended to push a bit of hair to neatness |
Walden | Thoreau, Henry David | Even ice begins with delicate crystal leaves, as if it had flowed into moulds which the fronds of waterplants have impressed on the watery mirror. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | Although the two hemispheres seem to be mirror images of each other, they are different. (references) | |
This may be done by inserting a tiny mirror into the mouth to the back of the throat (laryngoscopy). (references) | ||
Check your feet and toes daily for any cuts, sores, bruises, bumps, or infections--using a mirror if necessary. (references) | ||
Business | Expansions and declines of after-market service industry mirror those of the vehicle market. (references) | |
With the growth of telecommunication/IT companies in Hong Kong, the Hong Kong market 10 years hence will mirror that of New York’s or Los Angeles. (references) | ||
The situation currently appears to mirror that in America where the growth of franchising overall (in real terms) is strongly dependent on the performance of the economy as a whole. (references) | ||
Economic History | Netherlands | Trends in the Netherlands generally mirror those in the U.S. and other European countries. (references) |
Guyana | Mirror (People's Progressive Party newspaper, twice weekly), Bhoj Tharay, editor-in-chief. (references) | |
Cyprus | The major English language newspapers are the Cyprus Weekly, Cyprus Mail and the Cyprus Financial Mirror. (references) | |
Political Economy | Kuwait | U.S. technology is highly respected in the Kuwaiti market, and efforts are presently underway to develop technical standards for industrial and consumer goods that mirror those of the United States. (references) |
Trade | Bulgaria | The provisions of the EFTA Agreement mirror those of Bulgaria's Association Agreement with the European Union. (references) |
Travel | Canada | Business customs in Canada closely mirror those of the United States. (references) |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | LOOKING-:GLASS:, n. A vitreous plane upon which to display a fleeting show for man's disillusion given. The King of Manchuria had a magic looking-glass, whereon whoso looked saw, not his own image, but only that of the king. A certain courtier who had long enjoyed the king's favor and was thereby enriched beyond any other subject of the realm, said to the king: "Give me, I pray, thy wonderful mirror, so that when absent out of thine august presence I may yet do homage before thy visible shadow, prostrating myself night and morning in the glory of thy benign countenance, as which nothing has so divine splendor, O Noonday Sun of the Universe!" Please with the speech, the king commanded that the mirror be conveyed to the courtier's palace; but after, having gone thither without apprisal, he found it in an apartment where was naught but idle lumber. And the mirror was dimmed with dust and overlaced with cobwebs. This so angered him that he fisted it hard, shattering the glass, and was sorely hurt. Enraged all the more by this mischance, he commanded that the ungrateful courtier be thrown into prison, and that the glass be repaired and taken back to his own palace; and this was done. But when the king looked again on the mirror he saw not his image as before, but only the figure of a crowned ass, having a bloody bandage on one of its hinder hooves -- as the artificers and all who had looked upon it had before discerned but feared to report. Taught wisdom and charity, the king restored his courtier to liberty, had the mirror set into the back of the throne and reigned many years with justice and humility; and one day when he fell asleep in death while on the throne, the whole court saw in the mirror the luminous figure of an angel, which remains to this day. |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| Speaker | Term | Phrase(s) |
George W. Bush | 2001-2005 | Yet after America was attacked, it was as if our entire country looked into a mirror and saw our better selves. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| "Mirror" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 79.33% of the time. "Mirror" is used about 3,769 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 79.33% | 2,990 | 3,134 |
| Noun (proper) | 17.41% | 656 | 9,979 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 2.44% | 92 | 34,282 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 0.82% | 31 | 62,296 |
| Total | 100.00% | 3,769 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Country | Name | Country | Name |
| United Kingdom | Mirror Group plc | USA | Times Mirror Company |
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Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.
Expressions using "mirror": broken mirror ♦ Burning mirror ♦ camera mirror lenses ♦ car mirror ♦ chaos mirror ♦ concave mirror ♦ deer mirror ♦ dichroic mirror ♦ distorting mirror ♦ driving mirror ♦ fighting mirror ♦ Focal distance or length of a lens or mirror ♦ gnu mirror site ♦ hand mirror ♦ hold the mirror up to nature ♦ magic mirror ♦ milk mirror ♦ mirror carp ♦ mirror coating ♦ mirror file ♦ mirror galvanometer ♦ mirror image ♦ Mirror Lake ♦ mirror lenses ♦ mirror nuclei ♦ mirror plate ♦ mirror ray ♦ mirror symmetry ♦ mirror writing ♦ nonlinear optical loop mirror ♦ observation mirror ♦ outside mirror ♦ panoramic mirror ♦ parabolic mirror ♦ pier mirror ♦ rear mirror ♦ rear view mirror ♦ rear wiew mirror ♦ rearview mirror ♦ roadside mirror ♦ rod mirror ♦ see one's reflection in a mirror ♦ segmented mirror ♦ shaving mirror ♦ signalling mirror ♦ to mirror ♦ vanity mirror ♦ window mirror. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "mirror": mirror-anya, mirror-back, mirror-backed, mirror-cabinet, mirror-calm, mirror-case, mirror-domed, mirror-door, mirror-eye, mirror-flat, mirror-frame, mirror-frog, mirror-fronted, mirror-fusion, mirror-glass, mirror-gloss, mirror-handles, Mirror-helen, mirror-image, mirror-image relation, mirror-imaged, mirror-images, mirror-lensed, mirror-like, mirror-lined, mirror-match, mirror-meeting, mirror-of-nature, mirror-on-stand, mirror-plated, mirror-polished, mirror-posed, mirror-practice, mirror-room, mirror-shiny, mirror-smooth, mirror-sponsored, mirror-tiled, mirror-topped, mirror-work, mirror-world. | |
Ending with "mirror": ex-mirror. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
mirror | 4,903 | loudoun times mirror | 131 |
daily mirror | 958 | convex mirror | 125 |
wall mirror | 868 | sunday mirror | 122 |
bathroom mirror | 584 | rear view mirror | 119 |
mirror decorative | 395 | framed mirror | 108 |
the mirror | 381 | mirror tile | 104 |
make up mirror | 295 | bar mirror | 104 |
pocket mirror | 285 | full length mirror | 103 |
altoona mirror | 260 | magnifying mirror | 99 |
auto mirror | 240 | mirror image | 98 |
car mirror | 232 | cheval mirror | 98 |
copy dd disk hpux mirror unix | 198 | oval mirror | 97 |
truck mirror | 196 | mirror lake | 96 |
mirror ball | 189 | mirror mirror | 93 |
motorcycle mirror | 178 | shower mirror | 86 |
vanity mirror | 176 | security mirror | 85 |
towing mirror | 171 | mirror newspaper | 84 |
floor mirror | 149 | venetian mirror | 82 |
antique mirror | 144 | glass mirror | 82 |
man in the mirror | 143 | mirror lake inn | 81 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "mirror"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Afrikaans | agteruitkykspieël (driving, driving mirror). (various references) | |
Albanian | shembull (case, example, exemplar, exponent, instance, lead, model, number, paradigm, piece, rule, sample), pasqyrues (ejector, reflective, rejector, reverberant, reverberating), pasqyroj (express, image, reflect, render, represent, throw back), pasqyrë (digest, glass, looking glass, reflector, review, revue). (various references) | |
Arabic | مرآة (glass, looking glass), عكس صورة كذا, إنعكس (be inverted, reflect, reflex, reverberate). (various references) | |
Basque | ispilu. (various references) | |
Blackfoot | sáapia'tsis. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | отразявам (effect, give back, glance, glass, image, reflect, reverberate, throw back), отражение (backwash, image, reflection, reflex, reflexion, repercussion, reverberation, umbrage), огледало (glass, keeking-glass, looking glass), огледална повърхност, огледален (reflex, specular), образец (copy, epitome, example, exemplar, form, ideal, model, mould, norm, paradigm, paragon, pattern, piece, sample, sampling, scantling, shape, specimen, swatch, type), модел (creation, example, make, model, mould, pattern, sample, shape, sitter, style, type). (various references) | |
Catalan | mirall (looking-glass). (various references) | |
Chamorro | espehos. (various references) | |
Chinese | 镜子 (specular), 鑒 (example, reflection, to inspect, to reflect, to view, to warn), 鑑 (example, to view), 鏡子 , 鏡 . (various references) | |
Czech | zrcadlo (looking glass), zrcadlit se (reflect). (various references) | |
Danish | spejl (looking-glass). (various references) | |
Dutch | spiegel (looking-glass, poop, poopdeck, stern), afspiegelen (reflect). (various references) | |
Esperanto | spegulo (looking-glass), respeguli (reflect). (various references) | |
Faeroese | spegil (looking-glass). (various references) | |
Farsi | اءینه (Glass), دراینه منعکس ساختن , بازتاب کردن . (various references) | |
Finnish | peili (looking-glass). (various references) | |
French | miroir (mirrored), glace. (various references) | |
Frisian | spegel (looking-glass). (various references) | |
German | Spiegel (escutcheon, glass, lapel, level, looking-glass, mirrors, panel, reflector, speculum, tab, type area), widerspiegeln (reflect), spiegeln (gleam, picture, reflect, shine). (various references) | |
Greek | κάτοπτρο (glass, lens, reflector, speculum), κατοπτρίζω (reflect), καθρέπτησ (looking glass), καθρέπτης, καθρέφτης, καθρεφτάκι (rear-view mirror), ανακλόν κάτοπτρο, ανακλαστήρας (baffle, reflector, reflector lens, reflector-mirror, reflex reflector, repeller, retro-reflector, specular reflector), αντικατοπτρίζω (reflect), αντανακλαστικό κάτοπτρο (reflector, reflector-mirror), αντανακλαστήρας (reflector, reflector-mirror). (various references) | |
Hebrew | לשקף (make visible, reflect), להשתקף (be reflected, be seen), להראות כבראי, אספקלריה, בבואה (image, reflection), ראי (looking glass). (various references) | |
Hungarian | tükör (glass, looking glass, looking-glass, specular), példakép (beau ideal, exemplar, ideal, leading). (various references) | |
Icelandic | spegill (looking-glass). (various references) | |
Indonesian | cermin (shining). (various references) | |
Irish | scáthán. (various references) | |
Italian | specchio (glass, looking glass, looking-glass, speculum). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 鏡 . (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | ミラー , きかん (already published, boiler, engine, facility, feedback, flagship, gauge, hunger and cold, instrument, key, mainstay, mechanism, nucleus, organ, paragon, pattern, period, quarterly, repatriation, return, returning to one'sship, term, trachea, wonderful sight, your letter), きょうかん (assassin, between the mountains, breast, chest, ferocity, heinousness, instructor, one's hometown, outlaw, paragon, professor, response, scream, shout, sympathy, teacher, villain), かがみ. (various references) | |
Korean | 거울. (various references) | |
Lombard | specc (looking-glass). (various references) | |
Manx | scaane (speculum), gless huarystal. (various references) | |
Maori | whakaata. (various references) | |
Maya | neen. (various references) | |
Norwegian | speil (glass, looking-glass). (various references) | |
Occitan | miralh. (various references) | |
Papago | neithakud. (various references) | |
Papiamen | spil (looking-glass). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | irrormay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | espelho (glass, keeking-glass, looking glass, reflector, speculum). (various references) | |
Portuguese Brazilian | espelho. (various references) | |
Romanian | reflectare (consideration, image, reflection, return, reverberation, rumination), reflecta (chew the cud, cogitate, consider, contemplate, deliberate, reflect, reflex, reverberate, ruminate), oglindi (depict, describe, reflect), oglindã (glass, image, looking glass, speculum). (various references) | |
Romansch | spievel. (various references) | |
Romany | gledalos. (various references) | |
Russian | зеркало (glass, keeking-glass, looking glass, looking-glass). (various references) | |
Scottish | sgàthan (looking glass). (various references) | |
Sepedi | seipone. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | ogledati (image), ogledalo (keeking-glass, looking glass). (various references) | |
Shona | chiringiro. (various references) | |
Sicilian | specchiu. (various references) | |
Spanish | espejo (glass, looking glass, looking-glass, reflection, reflexion, white patch). (various references) | |
Swahili | kioo (glass, looking-glass). (various references) | |
Swazi | sí-bûko. (various references) | |
Swedish | spegel (glass, keeking-glass, looking glass, looking-glass, panel), återspegla (reflect). (various references) | |
Thai | เหมือน, เครื่องสะท้อน, สะท้อน (echo), กระจก. (various references) | |
Turkish | ayna (glass, looking glass, looking-glass, peeper, reflector). (various references) | |
Turkmen | aяna (glass, window). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | відображення (image), відзеркалювати, відбивач (deflector, reflector, rejector, reverberator), відбивати (beat, beat back, fend off, image, imprint, reflect, repulse, reverberate, shed), дзеркало (glass, looking glass, speculum). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | hình phản chiếu (mirror-image). (various references) | |
Welsh | drych (looking-glass, object, pattern, spectacle). (various references) | |
Yucatec | neen (looking-glass). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Sumerian | 3100 BCE-2500 BCE | en. (various references) |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | specula, speculis, speculum. (various references) |
| Old French | 900-1400 | mireor. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "mirror": mirrored, mirroring, mirrorlike, mirrors. (additional references) | |
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"Mirror" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Dmitrov, Kirvor, marrok, marrom, Marrou, martor, Masroor, migrer, Mirar, miroc, Mirov, mirri, mirrie, Mirro, mirrot, mirrour, mirrow, mirum, Mirzo, Morgor, morior, Morroc, Muraour, Muroroa, Murro, myrrour. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "mirror" (pronounced mi"rer) |
| 3 | -i" r er | clearer, hearer, nearer, queerer, Shearer. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "i-m-o-r-r-r" | |
-3 letters: mir, mor, rim, rom. | |
-4 letters: mi, mo, om, or. | |
| Words containing the letters "i-m-o-r-r-r" | |
+1 letter: mirrors. | |
+2 letters: mirrored. | |
+3 letters: mirroring, terrorism. | |
+4 letters: cribriform, mirrorlike, terrorisms. | |
+5 letters: arteriogram, embroiderer, microbrewer, microreader, reembroider. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Usage: Modern 4. Usage: Commercial | 5. Images: Slideshow 6. Images: Photo Album 7. Images: Digital Art 8. Sounds | 9. Quotations: Familiar 10. Quotations: Fiction 11. Quotations: Non-fiction 12. Quotations: Speeches | 13. Usage Frequency 14. Names: Company Usage 15. Expressions 16. Expressions: Internet | 17. Translations: Modern 18. Translations: Ancient 19. Abbreviations 20. Acronyms | 21. Derivations 22. Rhymes 23. Anagrams 24. Bibliography |
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