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4 de may. de 2018 · 2. You can use all sorts of prepositions with "look" and "mirror." They have different shades of meaning. You can look at a mirror, meaning you are looking at the mirror itself and not necessarily the reflection therein. You can look in a mirror when you're shaving to make sure you didn't miss a spot. You can look into a mirror, forgetting your ...
23 de ago. de 2017 · We say "in the mirror". Like many common phrases, you could make a logical or technical argument why we should say something differently. But what people actually say is "in the mirror", whether you think that makes logical sense or not. Look at Google Ngram: Occurrence of "reflection on the mirror" is just about zero. Share. Improve this answer.
3 de sept. de 2019 · Mirror the geometry across the user-provided plane You might also consider using reflect instead of mirror , since the former more often has an object of a preposition. I'm not sure if using reflect would make this sentence more clear to your reader, but that replacement makes it more clear that about and across are better choices as the preposition for "user-provided plane".
7 de jul. de 2021 · Rear view typically means looking toward the back, either directly or indirectly (even though you might not be facing the back). The "rear view mirror" in a car enables the driver to look toward the back while still facing front. It's also used figuratively when referring to things that happened in the past.
24 de ago. de 2021 · With "mirror", generally speaking, when it's broken, we don't think of it as a mirror anymore because it doesn't reflect images, so it's not a mirror. We think about it as a general substance: "Our living room mirror broke, and now there's glass all over the carpet." Mirrors stop being mirrors when they break, and become glass.
7 de abr. de 2017 · The subject of reflect must be either be a beam of light or the reflective object (in this case the mirror), for example: The mirror reflected his image. You could make this into passive voice so that his image moves to the front of the sentence, and then he can see the image. He saw his image reflected in the mirror.
You walked into the party / Like you were walking on a yacht / Your hat strategically dipped below one eye / Your scarf, it was apricot / You had one eye on the mirror / And watched yourself gavotte / He was so vain, he watched himself in the mirror while he was dancing.
3 de sept. de 2020 · 19. A mirror is usually referred to as "silvered glass", since it was often made by depositing silver nitrate on one side, as the Wikipedia entry describes. "White glass" would (to me) be more an antique glass called "milk glass", because it's milky white. "Transparent glass" is, well, a window. Share.
A double mirror is a two-way mirror. Often found in interrogation rooms, these allow the person on the outside to see through without being seen themselves – while those inside see their reflection. Kendrick refers to his double mirror as dirty, acting as a metaphor reflecting on his past life and his mistakes – he wasn’t clean.
22 de jul. de 2015 · Did he wake up this morning and look in the mirror and notice his eyebags are puffier than ever? Notice how it says wake, look, and notice. These are the infinitive forms. If you tried to use the present tense, it would be ungrammatical: Did he *wakes up this morning and *looks in the mirror and *notices his eyebags are puffier than ever?
