Reflect vs. Think — What's the Difference?

To throw or bend back (light or sound, for example) from a surface.

To have or formulate in the mind

To give back or show an image of (an object); mirror.

To reason about or reflect on; ponder

To make apparent; express or manifest

To decide by reasoning, reflection, or pondering

To bring as a consequence

To judge or regard; look upon

(Archaic) To bend back.

To believe; suppose

To be bent or thrown back

To expect; hope

To give something back, as light or sound

To intend

To give evidence of the characteristics or qualities of someone or something

To call to mind; remember

To bring blame or discredit

To visualize; imagine

To think seriously.

To devise or evolve; invent

To express carefully considered thoughts

To bring into a given condition by mental preoccupation

(transitive) To bend back (light, etc.) from a surface.

To concentrate one's thoughts on; keep as a point of focus

(intransitive) To be bent back (light, etc.) from a surface.

To exercise the power of reason, as by conceiving ideas, drawing inferences, and using judgment

(transitive) To mirror, or show the image of something.

To consider or weigh an idea

(intransitive) To be mirrored.

To bring a thought to mind by using the imagination

(transitive) To agree with; to closely follow.

To recall a thought or an image to mind

(transitive) To give evidence of someone's or something's character etc.

To have a belief, supposition, or opinion

(intransitive) To think seriously; to ponder or consider.

To have care or consideration

To bend back; to give a backwa d turn to; to throw back; especially, to cause to return after striking upon any surface; as, a mirror reflects rays of light; polished metals reflect heat.

To use the mind in a certain way

To give back an image or likeness of; to mirror.

Requiring much thought to create or assimilate

To throw back light, heat, or the like; to return rays or beams.

The act or an instance of deliberate or extended thinking; a meditation.

To be sent back; to rebound as from a surface; to revert; to return.

(transitive) To ponder, to go over in one's head.

To throw or turn back the thoughts upon anything; to contemplate. Specifically: To attend earnestly to what passes within the mind; to attend to the facts or phenomena of consciousness; to use attention or earnest thought; to meditate; especially, to think in relation to moral truth or rules.

(intransitive) To communicate to oneself in one's mind, to try to find a solution to a problem.

To cast reproach; to cause censure or dishonor.

(intransitive) To conceive of something or someone (usually followed by of; infrequently, by on).

Manifest or bring back;

(transitive) To be of opinion (that); to consider, judge, regard, or look upon (something) as.

To throw or bend back or reflect (from a surface);

(transitive) To guess; to reckon.

Reflect deeply on a subject;

To plan; to be considering; to be of a mind (to do something).

Be bright by reflecting or casting light;

To presume; to venture.

Give evidence of a certain behavior;

To seem, to appear.

Give evidence of the quality of;

An act of thinking; consideration (of something).

To seem or appear; - used chiefly in the expressions methinketh or methinks, and methought.

To employ any of the intellectual powers except that of simple perception through the senses; to exercise the higher intellectual faculties.

To call anything to mind; to remember; as, I would have sent the books, but I did not think of it.

To reflect upon any subject; to muse; to meditate; to ponder; to consider; to deliberate.

To form an opinion by reasoning; to judge; to conclude; to believe; as, I think it will rain to-morrow.

To purpose; to intend; to design; to mean.

To presume; to venture.

To conceive; to imagine.

To plan or design; to plot; to compass.

To believe; to consider; to esteem.

Act of thinking; a thought.

An instance of deliberate thinking;

Judge or regard; look upon; judge;

Expect, believe, or suppose;

Use or exercise the mind or one's power of reason in order to make inferences, decisions, or arrive at a solution or judgments;

Recall knowledge from memory; have a recollection;

Imagine or visualize;

Focus one's attention on a certain state;

Have in mind as a purpose;

Decide by pondering, reasoning, or reflecting;

Ponder; reflect on, or reason about;

Dispose the mind in a certain way;

Have or formulate in the mind;

Be capable of conscious thought;

Bring into a given condition by mental preoccupation;