reflect on
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.39 in modern English
14
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
3
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
To give an impression of (used with an adverb).
Example Sentences
- "She reflected on her country's role in history."
- "The Leicester Daily Mercury reflected on how these concerns were the result of changing ways of getting around: "It might sound a bit crazy or just a little revolting that at Christmas works parties, some should drink themselves into a near-insensible state... This was not serious when they used public transport, but today more men and women use their own cars.""
- "It is sometimes useful to be able to reflect on class or interface types in native code as well."
- "Load-time MOPs reflect on the bytecode and make use of a modified class loader."
- "To define attribute classes and reflect on them at runtime, you have to consider a few more issues."
- "The recent spate of vandalism by pupils does not reflect well on the school."
Usage
Inflected Forms
Phrases
reflect on one