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Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Middle English mirour, from Old French mireor (“mirror”, literally “looker, watcher”), from mirer (“look at”), from Latin mīror (“wonder at”), from mīrus (“wonderful”), from Proto-Indo-European *smey- (“to laugh, to be glad”). Displaced native Middle English schewere, schawere, from Old English sċēawere (“mirror”, literally “watcher”), which was also the word for "spy."
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈmɪ.ɹə/
Audio (Received Pronunciation): (file) - (General American) IPA(key): /ˈmiɹ.ɚ/, /ˈmɪɹ.ɚ/, /ˈmɪɹ/
Audio (US): (file) - (New Zealand) IPA(key): /ˈmə.ɹa/
- Homophone: mere (some accents)
- Rhymes: -ɪɹə(ɹ), -ɪə(ɹ), -ɪəɹə(ɹ)
Noun
[edit]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, “(please specify the book)”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
- 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
[edit]- (reflecting surface): glass (old-fashioned), looking-glass (old-fashioned)
Hyponyms
[edit]- acoustic mirror
- black mirror
- Bragg mirror
- burning mirror
- Chinese magic mirror
- conjugate mirror
- distorting mirror
- dressing mirror
- fold mirror
- funhouse mirror
- half-silvered mirror
- handmirror
- ion mirror
- liquid mirror
- magic mirror
- magnetic mirror
- milk mirror
- moon mirror
- one-way mirror
- parabolic mirror
- plane mirror
- rear-view mirror
- rearview mirror
- rear-vision mirror
- rear vision mirror
- side mirror
- side-view mirror
- skinny mirror
- sound mirror
- spherical mirror
- submirror
- trumeau mirror
- two-way mirror
- wing mirror
Derived terms
[edit]Terms derived from mirror (noun)
- antimirror
- bemirror
- clear as a mirror
- do with mirrors
- hold a mirror to
- hold a mirror up to
- hold up a mirror to
- liquid mirror telescope
- look at oneself in the mirror
- man in the mirror
- metamirror
- micromirror
- mirrorable
- mirror armor
- mirror armour
- mirror ball
- mirror canon
- mirror fugue
- mirrorful
- mirror image
- mirror-image twin
- mirrorize
- mirrorless
- mirrorless
- mirror-like
- mirrorlike
- mirror match
- mirror matter
- mirror neuron
- mirror punishment
- mirrorscope
- mirrorshades
- mirror stage
- mirror symmetry
- mirror syndrome
- mirror test
- mirror theory
- mirrortocracy
- mirrortree
- mirror twin
- Mirrorverse
- mirror will
- mirrorwise
- mirrorwork
- mirrory
- mismirror
- mouth mirror
- multimirror
- nanomirror
- pentamirror
- remirror
- supermirror
- unmirrored
Translations
[edit]smooth reflecting surface
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computing: exact copy of a data set
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Verb
[edit]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
[edit]of an event, activity, behaviour; to be identical to, be a copy of, to reflect
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to reflect, as in a mirror
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See also
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