Definition of Mirror

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Mirror

A looking-glass or a speculum; any glass or polished substance that forms images by the reflection of rays of light.

That which gives a true representation, or in which a true image may be seen; hence, a pattern; an exemplar.

See Speculum.

To reflect, as in a mirror.

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Mirror Quotations

In the business world, the rearview mirror is always clearer than the windshield.
Warren Buffett

Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror.
Kahlil Gibran

Who sees the human face correctly: the photographer, the mirror, or the painter?
Pablo Picasso

I busted a mirror and got seven years bad luck, but my lawyer thinks he can get me five.
Steven Wright

The doctor should be opaque to his patients and, like a mirror, should show them nothing but what is shown to him.
Sigmund Freud

I'm at the age where food has taken the place of sex in my life. In fact, I've just had a mirror put over my kitchen table.
Rodney Dangerfield

Yes, and I had pimples so badly it used to make me so shy. I used not to look at myself. I'd hide my face in the dark, I wouldn't want to look in the mirror and my father teased me and I just hated it and I cried everyday.
Michael Jackson

Democrats couldn't care less if people in Indiana hate them. But if Europeans curl their lips, liberals can't look at themselves in the mirror.
Ann Coulter

Life is a mirror and will reflect back to the thinker what he thinks into it.
Ernest Holmes

Our environment, the world in which we live and work, is a mirror of our attitudes and expectations.
Earl Nightingale

Mirror Translations

mirror in Danish is spejl
mirror in Dutch is afspiegelen
mirror in Finnish is peili
mirror in French is miroiter, miroir
mirror in German is Spiegel
mirror in Italian is specchio
mirror in Latin is speculum
mirror in Norwegian is speil
mirror in Portuguese is espelho
mirror in Spanish is espejo, especho, especho

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