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Reflect vs Redo - What's the difference?

reflect | redo |

As verbs the difference between reflect and redo

is that reflect is to bend back (light, etc) from a surface while redo is to do again.

As a noun redo is

a repeated action; a doing again, refurbishment, etc.

reflect

English

Verb

(en verb)
  • To bend back (light, etc.) from a surface.
    • A mirror reflects the light that shines on it.
  • To be bent back (light, etc.) from a surface.
    • The moonlight reflected from the surface of water.
  • To mirror, or show the image of something.
    • The shop window reflected his image as he walked past.
  • To be mirrored.
    • His image reflected from the shop window as he walked past.
  • To agree with; to closely follow.
    • Entries in English dictionaries aim to reflect common usage.
  • To give evidence of someone's or something's character etc.
    • The team's victory reflects the Captain's abilities.
    The teacher's ability reflects well on the school.
  • *
    • With fresh material, taxonomic conclusions are leavened by recognition that the material examined reflects the site it occupied; a herbarium packet gives one only a small fraction of the data desirable for sound conclusions. Herbarium material does not, indeed, allow one to extrapolate safely: what you see is what you get
  • (senseid) To think seriously; to ponder or consider.
    • People do that sort of thing every day, without ever stopping to reflect on the consequences.
  • * 1985 , , Option Lock , page 229:
    • Not for the first time, he reflected that it was not so much the speeches that strained the nerves as the palaver that went with them.

    Synonyms

    * See also
    Derived terms
    * reflective * reflexion * unreflective * nonreflective * reflectorize

    redo

    English

    Verb

  • To do again.

    • Synonyms

    * (to do again) rework

    Antonyms

    * (to do again) undo

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A repeated action; a doing again, refurbishment, etc.
  • * {{quote-news, year=2008, date=June 1, author=C. J. Hughes, title=Where Change Is Underfoot, and Overhead, work=New York Times citation
    • , passage=Eight years ago, the apartment cost $292,000, and the three redos totaled $48,000, but though he has no plans to sell, he thinks he could get $600,000 for the place today. }}

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