mirror1 nounmirror2 verb
mirrormir‧ror1 /ˈmɪrə $ -ər/ ●●● S3 W3 noun [countable] 
WORD ORIGINmirror1
Origin:
1200-1300 Old French mirour, from mirer ‘to look at’, from Latin mirareEXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
- I saw her in the long mirror behind the bar, staring at me.
- She never left the house without having a quick look at herself in the hall mirror.
- The telescope contains a large convex mirror to collect the light.
- I could see in the wing mirror that my arrival had provoked some interest.
- It is comparable with the oddness which might visit all our outward appearances if we stopped looking in mirror.
- It makes even the rocks part of its dancing mirror.
- She turned away from the mirror and, putting her cosmetics in a vanity bag, opened the door.
- The Cockring consisted of several bars, smoked mirrors, strands of white lights along the walls, and a sunken dance-floor.
Longman Language Activatorsomething that reflects light
a piece of glass or other shiny or polished surface that reflects images: · The telescope contains a large convex mirror to collect the light.in the mirror: · I saw her in the long mirror behind the bar, staring at me.· She never left the house without having a quick look at herself in the hall mirror.
especially made to reflect light or heat: · It's important to wear special reflective clothing when riding a bike.· Survival bags are made of reflective material to prevent heat loss.highly reflective: · The alloy, when polished, is highly reflective.
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COLLOCATIONS FROM THE ENTRY
He spends hours in front of the mirror! When I looked in the mirror I couldn’t believe it. I looked fantastic! Check your rear-view mirror before you drive away. a wing mirrorCOLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSADJECTIVE
He spends hours in front of the mirror! When I looked in the mirror I couldn’t believe it. I looked fantastic! Check your rear-view mirror before you drive away. a wing mirror· The driving mirror is first and foremost an image: a self-reflexive representation or, in psychoanalytic terms, a narcissistic identification.· He watched in the driving mirror.· In the driving mirror I saw the driver of the estate-car was growing restive.· The driver may also arrange a mirror additional to the driving mirror so that the speechreading passenger sitting next to him sees his face.· Then I looked in my driving mirror and saw a girl I decided must be you.· She looked up and found Alain's eyes on her, the dark gaze studying her through the driving mirror.· I saw him in the driving mirror.· He'd been adjusting the driving mirror and he'd only taken his eyes off the road for a moment.
· The remnants of the large antique mirror lay shattered around her feet.· Susan was twenty-two, a computer operator in a large mirror company in an industrial park near their apartment.· A large mirror above the basin revealed to Ludens at intervals the progress of his toil.· A large mahogany mirror hung over the buffet.· Manningham perched on a black leather stool by a well-stocked bar with a large mirror behind it.· There is a large wall-size mirror, plush carpet, a leather chair and warm lighting.· When handling or putting up large mirrors, it is essential to have help.· Above this was a large rectangular mirror in a gilt frame.
· I looked into the little mirror for just a moment.· A puddle is a little mirror.· But I can see his eyes in the little mirror.· There was a cracked little mirror hanging on the wall, showing a pale man wearing a wrinkled collar.· She got to her feet, checked her cap in the little mirror on the wall and marched out into her department.· When she looked in the little round mirror, she saw that she wasn't falling to pieces.
· She watched as Dana twirled and twisted before a long mirror, making the dress shimmer with a thousand lights.· I saw her staring at me in the long beveled mirror behind the bar.· Just inside the foyer there was a long narrow mirror with an almost naked woman painted on it.· The light came from a long mirror surrounded by unshaded bulbs.· Dao Van Lat studied his naked body in the long mirror and was seized afresh with an exhilaration of awe.· Get a long mirror fixed to your bathroom or bedroom wall and take a good look at yourself front way on.
· In his rear mirror he watched his father struggle with the doors and manhandle the basket on to the ground.· He could see her in his rear mirror, standing on the pavement looking wistfully after him.· His eyes continually flickered towards the rear view mirror as he monitored the Mercedes' progress with mounting apprehension.· One more dazzling feature is the anti-dazzle rear view mirror.· But all the time he found his eyes fixed to the rear mirror, looking for a sign of pursuit.· I could see her in my rear view mirror.· His eyes flickered for a second to the rear view mirror.· Cobalt looked in his rear view mirror and reported that the Josephs' car and Maurin's were not far behind.
· Jen said, eyeing them in the rearview mirror.· Happiness is your competitors disappearing in your rearview mirror.· The large eyes in the rearview mirror looked away.· In the rearview mirror, the eyes were searching for and not finding Wally: they were startlingly large.· His livid eyes floated in the rearview mirror.· In the rearview mirror, I could see him scratching at his mustache with the corner of my business card.· In her rearview mirror she saw she had his attention.· He kept driving up the block, giggling when he spotted Ritchie running behind him in the rearview mirror.
· She examined her face in the small mirror.· He imagined himself telling her, and saw her tiny face falling, shattering on the sidewalk like a small mirror.· She opened the bag and got out a powder compact that had a small round mirror on the inside of the lid.· From his jacket pocket he took a small vanity mirror and adjusted his hair.· It's a small warped mirror reflecting one of the crises of our age.· She propped her handbag in her lap, took out a small mirror and carefully smoothed the swept-up sides of her hair.· One day the serious little girl brought him a small mirror, much cracked.· He pulled a small mirror from his pocket and held it up to me.
NOUN· Pinning up her wayward curls, Lissa made a face in the steam-coated bathroom mirror.· In the bathroom mirror, he saw that his hair had been streaked white too.· Barring the nightly message of encouragement captain Kardar stuck to his bathroom mirror, there were no instructions from the skipper.· He would stand in front of the bathroom mirror in his boxer shorts and expand his chest a few times, breathing deeply.· Gerald stood and looked at himself in the bathroom mirror for several minutes.· Lily looked at herself in the bathroom mirror.· She is staring at her throat in the bathroom mirror.· On the evidence of his bathroom mirror, he looked better too.
· He sat with his hand mirror all day and every day.· She stared at them in a hand mirror, looking angry and disturbed.· She paused before the stage door and pulled a hand mirror from her purse.· I reach for my hand mirror for confirmation.· Next, use a hand mirror in conjunction with the wall mirror to get a back view of yourself.· The curtain opened again, as if on cue, and Squirt came up behind Mulcahey with a hand mirror.· I took a hand mirror and examined this wrinkle from the side, frowning to deepen it.· He sat for hours staring into a hand mirror, tilting it this way and that and bending his head.
· But below the mirror images of arts and architecture lurks the threat of extinction - Venice is in Peril.· Geschke and Warnock are mirror images of one another, right down to the silver beards.· Restructured urban space and the visual arts in the modernist city were mirror images of one another.· The history that Mr Gingrich teaches is a mirror image of what the left is advancing.· The lakes, or water, are seldom still and blue, reflecting mirror images of the detailed hills.· But now notice that what happens in the foreign market is a mirror image of what happens in the domestic market.· Edward M.. Kennedy, his ideological mirror image.
· His eyes continually flickered towards the rear view mirror as he monitored the Mercedes' progress with mounting apprehension.· One more dazzling feature is the anti-dazzle rear view mirror.· I could see her in my rear view mirror.· His eyes flickered for a second to the rear view mirror.· Cobalt looked in his rear view mirror and reported that the Josephs' car and Maurin's were not far behind.· And I wish with this high seating position that the rear view mirror wasn't so directly in my line of sight.· Half an hour later, I see a blue flashing light, and matching stripes in the rear view mirror.
· Hedges rose to either side and the Cadillac's wing mirrors clipped against them.· Bill was leaning on his cab, spitting at the wing mirror and half-heartedly polishing it with his sleeve.· All the controls are easy to use, although adjusting the wing mirrors took a bit of working out.· I could see in the wing mirror that my arrival had provoked some interest.· Mobuto recoiled in horror, stumbling back painfully into the Studebaker's wing mirror.· As the Ford charged after the Mercedes, Dunn saw in his wing mirror a spurt of tracer fire.· The fork-lift truck was not fitted with either wing mirrors or a speedometer.· They came down on the coach from Manchester and were delayed for an hour by a missing wing mirror.
VERB· Vic glances in his rear-view mirror and smiles thinly.· In the bedroom, getting her car keys off the bureau, Toni glanced into the mirror.· I glance in the rear-view mirror to see other cars close behind; slowing down but then speeding up again.· He had glanced in the washroom mirror and it had not been a reassuring sight.· He glanced in his mirror as he reset the key.· She glanced in the mirror and declared I had wrecked her eyes for the rest of the day.· She glanced into the rear-view mirror, convinced that hers was the only car on this lonely road.· She glanced in the rear-view mirror and saw the headlights of the traffic behind her.
· To help out, the second player holds up the mirror so that the first player can see his reflection.· A chest of drawers held a square mirror and picture of a younger Roz in her college cap and gown.· I held the mirror and the surveyor caught my light in his theodolite, many miles away.· Nothing more than designer Starck holding a slightly surreal mirror to Los Angeles.· She then tries to get as much as she can while a third person holds the mirror.· Each girl holds a little handbag mirror in the palm of one hand, and a coiled cylinder of paper in the other.
· Sometimes he looked in the mirror and pulled. his lower eyelids down to see if he had anaemia.· I looked into the mirror, my green eyes looking back out at me showing no emotion, no excitement at all.· He looked in the mirror and could see a gout of her smoker's phlegm on his cheek.· When I looked up into the mirror again, he was moving, crawling towards something behind him.· The young fellow looked pinto the mirror, trying to find something to complain to the barber about.· She did not look away from the mirror: an act of will.· I looked into the mirror, searching once again into the riddle of my face.
· His face was reflected in the mirror, pale, the eyes open.· The Gestalt reflected in the mirror is a pregnant one that will give birth to the self to come.· A doppelganger is invisible except to its owner and is not reflected in a mirror.· Civilization simply reflects them like a mirror.· Poking my head into a cement-lined cell, I found myself reflected between greasy mirrors, a head in a grim void.· Logically, Margarett, posing in her chair, should be reflected in the mirror, but she is not.· Whatever nature may objectively be, it is reflected in the flawed mirror of the mind.· It reflects off the cookie sheet in the same way light is reflected by a mirror.
· To the left of him in the mirror he could see the remains of last night's meal.· In his rear-view mirror Jed saw the vial being passed round.· In the mirror I could see his eyes watching his hands.· For from her mirror she saw the driver's door of the Mercedes open and a tall, aristocratic man step out.· In the rearview mirror, I could see him scratching at his mustache with the corner of my business card.· In his shaving mirror he saw a face burned a deep brown by two weeks of fierce tropical sunshine.· In the bathroom mirror, he saw that his hair had been streaked white too.
· Paul is standing in front of his mirror, trying on his new ruffled Mississippi gambler's shirt and straight-leg black jeans.· For a moment he stood before the mirror, staring into it.· He saw me standing against the mirror and stopped.· I stood before the mirror in the hallway, fixing my tie, whistling.· On the left side of the painting is a standing mirror with a white wood frame.· Twenty minutes later she stood in front of the mirror wearing the fragile lace undies which were also the result of her impulse-buying.
· She paused in applying her make-up and stared reflectively at the mirror.· I was staring at a wall-sized mirror when he walked into the bar.· He stared into the mirror that hung above the mantelpiece.· It was like staring at a magic mirror.· He sat for hours staring into a hand mirror, tilting it this way and that and bending his head.· I often caught myself staring into a mirror, wondering who that was staring back.
· She turned away from the mirror and, putting her cosmetics in a vanity bag, opened the door.· He turned toward the mirror over the sofa.· Lily turned to the mirror and dragged off her hat.· When the drill point is just through, turn the mirror over and drill from the other side.· He turned from the mirror and started to clear the table.· Jane turned back to the mirror.· She turned away from the mirror, having glimpsed the skull behind her own face.· Dropping the robe off her shoulders, Anne turned to a full-length mirror.
· If you use a mirror in this way, be careful where you position it.· A mirror can make things look backward. Use a mirror.· The magical illusion is created using mirrors, lights and paint.· He also uses gold leaf on mirrors, then paints it to get an antique look.· Next, use a hand mirror in conjunction with the wall mirror to get a back view of yourself.
· She watched her at the mirror.· He watched in the driving mirror.· He watched Richard in the mirror, newly combed hair oddly neat against unshaven chin and eyes dull with tiredness.· Instead she drove along side roads, following the motorway in parallel, always watching her rear-view mirror.· That is, when they're not watching themselves in the mirrors, making sure that they are still up to the mark.
PHRASES FROM THE ENTRYPHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
1a piece of special glass that you can look at and see yourself inin a mirror- This is Chicago, mirror of all that's gruesome and glorious in America's urban experience.
- Athletes are a mirror of society, even if sometimes their images are blown out of proportion.
- But the invisibility of women in the sociology of deviance is not simply a mirror of reality.
- Edward came back, dropped the planks, and stared at the kiln as into a mirror of his own increasing frustration.
- More than a witness to Mitterrand, in many respects, the event was a mirror of the witnesses's preoccupations.
- Perhaps it was while watching the faces, that I began to get a mirror of my own doubts.
- The top piece of bread is a mirror of the bottom, spread with mayo and mustard.
- Dropping the robe off her shoulders, Anne turned to a full-length mirror.
- He put his handkerchief in his pocket, and looked into the full-length mirror on the back of the guest room door.
- If a full-length mirror rests on the floor with the top tilting away from you it can make you look taller.
- On a platform nearby, another man jumps rope before a full-length mirror while a fourth pounds a speed bag.
- She caught sight of her own reflection in the full-length mirror behind the wardrobe door and gave a disgusted snort.
- She grimaced a little as she caught sight of her own reflection in the full-length mirror.
- She stared at herself for some time in the full-length mirror of the attic bedroom.
She was studying her reflection in the mirror. He spends hours in front of the mirror! When I looked in the mirror I couldn’t believe it. I looked fantastic!2a mirror on the inside or side of a vehicle, which the driver uses to see what is behind: Check your rear-view mirror before you drive away. a wing mirror3a mirror of something something that gives a clear idea of what something else is like SYN reflection: We believe the polls are an accurate mirror of public opinion.mirror1 nounmirror2 verb
mirrormirror2 ●○○ verb [transitive] if one thing mirrors another, it is very similar to it and may seem to copy or represent it SYN reflect: Henry’s sad smile mirrored that of his son. The economic recovery in Britain was mirrored in the US.