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The Looking Glass Wars

The smooth turquoise amphitheater had suffered damage in an air raid, as had the public works towers and spires sporting fiery, reflective pyrite skin.
p. 10..2 (definition 1) *

reflective = having the characteristic of shining back light that falls upon it

The caterpillars' prophecies were always so vague. Sometimes their visions reflected only possibilities, the dark wishes of those who never planned to carry them out. But she couldn't take a chance, not when it concerned Redd.
p. 46..0 (definition 2) *

reflected = showed

editor's notes: The Looking Glass Wars commonly uses the word reflect to refer to shining back an image--as seen in a mirror. But it is also used in two other fairly common ways in the book. Prophecies are predictions about the future. Vague means "not clear".

Unfocused looking glasses allowed travelers to choose their own destinations, provided that there were looking glasses at those destinations out of which they could be reflected.
p. 68..7 (definition 3)

reflected = shined back

In Queendom Speramus states: "As a body underwater tends to rise to the surface, a body entering a looking glass wants to be reflected out."
p. 68..8 (definition 3)

reflected = shined

An inexperienced traveler might enter a looking glass in his own home, thinking to pay a visit to a friend across town, only to be reflected out of a looking glass at his next-door neighbor's house.
p. 69..1 (definition 3)

The traveler might then enter his next-door neighbor's looking glass, only to be reflected out at the house next door to his next-door neighbor, and so on and so on until he reached his friend across town.
p. 69..2 (definition 3)

After the temper subsides and one has a moment to calmly reflect, it isn't uncommon for declarations shouted in a fit of rage to strike one as untrue, and because they may have been hurtful to family, friends, lovers, husbands, or wives, one wishes them unsaid.
p. 148..1 (definition 4) *

reflect = think

editor's notes: The Looking Glass Wars commonly uses the word reflect to refer to shining back an image--as seen in a mirror. But note that it is also used in two other fairly common ways in the book. In this context, subsides is a synonym for calms, and declarations is a synonym for statements.

The mirror was suddenly empty, reflecting only the room.
p. 150..8 (definition 3) *

reflecting = showing back

Wonderlanders, struggling to get out of his way, were sucked up through crystal byways and reflected out of looking glasses into seedy restaurants or the homes of strangers-looking glasses out of which they had never meant to be reflected, on their way to other destinations.
p. 157..3 (definition 3)

reflected = shined

Wonderlanders, struggling to get out of his way, were sucked up through crystal byways and reflected out of looking glasses into seedy restaurants or the homes of strangers-looking glasses out of which they had never meant to be reflected, on their way to other destinations.
p. 157..5 (definition 3)

They looked like ordinary Wonderlanders except for the implants of reflective colorless crystal in their eye sockets.
p. 157..8 (definition 1)

reflective = having the characteristic of shining back light that falls upon it

Before the two remaining Glass Eyes could regain their equilibrium, Dodge relaxed, surrendered his body to the pull of the nearest looking glass, and was sucked up out of the Continuum, reflected out of a glass in the lobby of an apartment building.
p. 159..5 (definition 3)

reflected = shined

As fragments of mirror scattered and fell, Dodge squeezed his entire body back into the Continuum through a reflective sliver no larger than a jabberwock's toe-a feat the Glass Eyes hadn't mastered, for when they tried, they couldn't get their entire bodies into the Continuum, only those parts that had been reflected in the fragment.
p. 159..8 (definition 1)

reflective = having the characteristic of shining back images that upon it

As fragments of mirror scattered and fell, Dodge squeezed his entire body back into the Continuum through a reflective sliver no larger than a jabberwock's toe-a feat the Glass Eyes hadn't mastered, for when they tried, they couldn't get their entire bodies into the Continuum, only those parts that had been reflected in the fragment.
p. 159..9 (definition 3)

reflected = shown (back)

The camp was protected by a Stonehenge of massive, intricately balanced mirrors reflecting the sky and forest, an unending vista of foliage and clouds to confuse the not-quite-all-seeing eye of Redd's imagination, as well as any of The Cut who happened to be dealt through the forest.
p. 179..6 (definition 3)

reflecting = showing back

Her fingers touched the cold reflective surface and she stood fingertip to fingertip with her mirrored image.
p. 199..6 (definition 1)

reflective = having the characteristic of shining back images that upon it

Theoretically, it was possible for inexperienced Continuum travelers to discover the rebels' emergency portal; they could have been inadvertently reflected out of it.
p. 254..2 (definition 3)

reflected = shined

"Focus your will and think heavy thoughts," shouted the general, "or you will be reflected out!"
p. 255..7 (definition 3)

Unable to maintain their equilibrium inside the Continuum, they were sucked from its main artery and reflected out of looking glasses.
p. 256..6 (definition 3)

They were reflected out of the Continuum.
p. 256..9 (definition 3)

Wonderlanders eager for havoc ran through the streets, breaking windows and anything that could even remotely serve as a reflective surface.
p. 260..9 (definition 1)

reflective = having the characteristic of shining back images that upon it

He held the looking glass at an angle, aiming it so that it reflected a small portion of the Continuum, regenerating it.
p. 262..3 (definition 3)

reflected = showed (an image back of)

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(1) (reflect as in: reflect the light/heat/sound)
bounce back (rather than absorbing)

(2) (reflect as in: reflect American Values)
to show something -- such as to demonstrate, express, or represent
The exact meaning of this sense of reflect depends upon its context. For example:
- "She says the immorality in the movie reflects American values." -- expresses or represents
- "It reflects the selfishness she had seen growing for years." -- demonstrates
- "She did not reflect the panic that surrounded her." -- demonstrate or show indication of

(3) (reflect as in: reflect in the mirror)
show an image back (on a mirror or other shiny surface)

(4) (reflect as in: I want to reflect on it.)
think carefully -- possibly aloud or in writing