Mirror vs. Invert

Mirrornoun

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.’;

Invertverb

(transitive) To turn (something) upside down or inside out; to place in a contrary order or direction.

‘to invert a cup, the order of words, rules of justice, etc.’;

Mirrornoun

(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.’;

Invertverb

To move (the root note of a chord) up or down an octave, resulting in a change in pitch.

Mirrornoun

(internet) A website or other online resource that contains replicated data.

‘Although the content had been deleted from his blog, it was still found on some mirrors.’;

Invertverb

To undergo inversion, as sugar.

Mirrornoun

A mirror carp.

Invertverb

To divert; to convert to a wrong use.

Mirrornoun

(historical) A kind of political self-help book, advising kings, princes, etc. on how to behave.

Invertnoun

A homosexual.

Mirrorverb

(transitive) Of an event, activity, behaviour, etc, to be identical to, to be a copy of.

Invertnoun

(architecture) An inverted arch (as in a sewer). *

Mirrorverb

To create something identical to (a web site, etc.).

Invertnoun

The base of a tunnel on which the road or railway may be laid and used when construction is through unstable ground. It may be flat or form a continuous curve with the tunnel arch.

Mirrorverb

(transitive) To reflect, as in a mirror.

Invertnoun

(civil engineering) The lowest point inside a pipe at a certain point.

Mirrornoun

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

‘And in her hand she held a mirror bright,Wherein her face she often viewèd fair.’;

Invertnoun

(civil engineering) An elevation of a pipe at a certain point along the pipe.

Mirrornoun

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

‘She is mirour of all courtesy.’; ‘O goddess, heavenly bright,Mirror of grace and majesty divine.’;

Invertnoun

A skateboarding trick where the skater grabs the board and plants a hand on the coping so as to balance upside-down on the lip of a ramp.

Mirrornoun

See Speculum.

Invertnoun

invertebrate

Mirrorverb

To reflect, as in a mirror.

Invertadjective

(chemistry) Subjected to the process of inversion; inverted; converted.

‘invert sugar’;

Mirrorverb

To copy or duplicate; to mimic or imitate; as, the files at Project Gutenberg were mirrored on several other ftp sites around the world.

Invertverb

To turn over; to put upside down; to upset; to place in a contrary order or direction; to reverse; as, to invert a cup, the order of words, rules of justice, etc.

‘That doth invert the attest of eyes and ears,As if these organs had deceptious functions.’; ‘Such reasoning falls like an inverted cone,Wanting its proper base to stand upon.’;

Mirrorverb

To have a close resemblance to; as, his opinions often mirrored those of his wife.

Invertverb

To change the position of; - said of tones which form a chord, or parts which compose harmony.

Mirrornoun

polished surface that forms images by reflecting light

Invertverb

To divert; to convert to a wrong use.

Mirrornoun

a faithful depiction or reflection;

‘the best mirror is an old friend’;

Invertverb

To convert; to reverse; to decompose by, or subject to, inversion. See Inversion, n., 10.

Mirrorverb

reflect as if in a mirror;

‘The smallest pond at night mirrors the firmament above’;

Invertverb

To undergo inversion, as sugar.

Mirrorverb

reflect or resemble;

‘The plane crash in Milan mirrored the attack in the World Trade Center’;

Invertadjective

Subjected to the process of inversion; inverted; converted; as, invert sugar.

Mirrornoun

a surface, typically of glass coated with a metal amalgam, which reflects a clear image

‘he checked his appearance in the mirror’;

Invertnoun

An inverted arch.

Mirrornoun

a thing regarded as accurately representing something else

‘the stage is supposed to be the mirror of life’;

Invertverb

make an inversion (in a musical composition);

‘here the theme is inverted’;

Mirrornoun

a site on a network which stores the contents copied from another site

‘the company now has a mirror site in Taiwan’;

Invertverb

turn inside out or upside down

Mirrorverb

(of a surface) show a reflection of

‘the clear water mirrored the sky’;

Mirrorverb

correspond to

‘his own views mirrored those of his followers’;

Mirrorverb

keep a copy of the contents of (a network site) at another site, typically in order to improve accessibility

‘his site was mirrored at several colleges around the United States’;

Mirrorverb

store copies of data in (two or more hard disks) for protection

‘the second drive is set up for disk mirroring’;

Mirror

A mirror is an object that reflects an image. Light that bounces off a mirror will show an image of whatever is in front of it, when focused through the lens of the eye or a camera.