What's the difference between reelection and reflection?

Reelection


Definition:

  • (n.) Election a second time, or anew; as, the reelection of a former chief.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Conway has a long list of success stories when it comes to this kind of retooling, from helping GOP lawmakers change the way they talk about rape to helping Trump’s running mate Mike Pence polish his personality in ways that “kept him comfortable in his own skin” ahead of a gubernatorial reelection campaign, as Pence’s communications director recently told TPM .
  • (2) Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) China's Communist Party has now publicly praised Obama's reelection.
  • (3) But even his admirers would hesitate to call him a great economist, and after FDR's landslide reelection in 1936, Morgenthau made cutting the federal deficit his personal cause.
  • (4) But some of the key groups of supporters who brought Corbyn the leadership and secured his reelection in September – young, internationalist, liberal – feel strongly that Brexit is wrong for Britain.
  • (5) Why is Mahmoud Ahmadinejad not standing for reelection 3. Who can stand in the election?
  • (6) Bush received roughly 40% of the Latino vote share in his 2004 reelection.
  • (7) The amendment's success came as House Republicans were preoccupied with selecting a new majority leader to replace Virginia's Eric Cantor, who lost his reelection primary.
  • (8) That it was more than just a personal bugbear became clear in June 2013, when we learned that PennCAN, yet another so-called “school-reform” group focused on vouchers, privatization, and the destruction of public schooling, had financed a “secret poll” that encouraged Corbett to attack the PFT in hopes of gaining support ahead of his midterm reelection campaign.
  • (9) Greece needs to take its responsibility [seriously] … we will also speak with Turkey .” But Greece’s leftist Syriza party, bidding for reelection in next Sunday’s vote, called for external help in dealing with the crisis.
  • (10) In a further challenge to his reelection chances for 2017, the party’s national council announced on Saturday that it would back a primary contest to select a single presidential candidate for the broader French left – a prospect that is likely to embolden potential Socialist challengers.
  • (11) • Back to the top Why is Mahmoud Ahmadinejad not standing for reelection?
  • (12) To have a chance of being reelected, he must win over a large part of the record 6.4 million people who voted for the far right's Marine Le Pen in the first round.
  • (13) Clinton said the pattern of mass killings – the Umpqua shooting was the 994th such incident in the US since Obama’s reelection in late 2012 – was “beyond my comprehension”.
  • (14) She’s up for reelection for a third term in March but has been hemorrhaging public support since the case broke.
  • (15) His post-reelection tweets also included: " What subhuman varmint believes others must pay for their obesity booze cellphones birthcontrol abortions & lives " and " Goodluk America u just voted for economic & spiritual suicide.
  • (16) It may not be this Trump, but it could be the Trump in four years time, as America becomes a society shaped by global forces that Washington can’t control.” Responding to a question about rising popular discontent with the Australian, US and UK establishments and support for Brexit, Trump, and newly reelected senator Pauline Hanson, Carr said there was a “self-correcting process” and Trump as president would result in “an enormous rethinking”.
  • (17) They wanted this moment of political opportunity, and they wanted it in time for Corbett’s reelection.
  • (18) Reelected in 1997 for the seat of Hampshire North West following boundary changes, he served as William Hague's shadow defence secretary from 1997 to 1998.
  • (19) Its director, Ahmad Moeinimanesh, has made personal financial donations to Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, the chair of the House of Representatives foreign affairs committee even though her congressional district is on the other side of the country in Florida, as well as to her reelection committee.
  • (20) A headline in the Washington Post even called it “the unofficial kickoff of his 2020 reelection campaign ”, suggesting that in the age of permanent campaigning, Trump will spend the next four years trying to shore up the support in the midwest that was so crucial to his success.

Reflection


Definition:

  • (n.) The act of reflecting, or turning or sending back, or the state of being reflected.
  • (n.) The return of rays, beams, sound, or the like, from a surface. See Angle of reflection, below.
  • (n.) The reverting of the mind to that which has already occupied it; continued consideration; meditation; contemplation; hence, also, that operation or power of the mind by which it is conscious of its own acts or states; the capacity for judging rationally, especially in view of a moral rule or standard.
  • (n.) Shining; brightness, as of the sun.
  • (n.) That which is produced by reflection.
  • (n.) An image given back from a reflecting surface; a reflected counterpart.
  • (n.) A part reflected, or turned back, at an angle; as, the reflection of a membrane.
  • (n.) Result of meditation; thought or opinion after attentive consideration or contemplation; especially, thoughts suggested by truth.
  • (n.) Censure; reproach cast.
  • (n.) The transference of an excitement from one nerve fiber to another by means of the nerve cells, as in reflex action. See Reflex action, under Reflex.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Since fingernail creatinine (Ncr) reflects serum creatinine (Scr) at the time of nail formation, it has been suggested that Ncr level might represent that of Scr around 4 months previously.
  • (2) We propose that this dependence on coexpression reflects the association between the LTA::STa hybrids and LTB subunits.
  • (3) Following central retinal artery ligation, infarction of the retinal ganglion cells was reflected by a 97 per cent reduction in the radioactively labeled protein within the optic nerve.
  • (4) Based on several previous studies, which demonstrated that sorbitol accumulation in human red blood cells (RBCs) was a function of ambient glucose concentrations, either in vitro or in vivo, our investigations were conducted to determine if RBC sorbitol accumulation would correlate with sorbitol accumulation in lens and nerve tissue of diabetic rats; the effect of sorbinil in reducing sorbitol levels in lens and nerve tissue of diabetic rats would be reflected by changes in RBC sorbitol; and sorbinil would reduce RBC sorbitol in diabetic man.
  • (5) In all groups, there was a fall in labeling index with time reflecting increasing tumor size.
  • (6) Hepatic enzyme elevations were more dramatic after blunt trauma, reflecting greater hepatocellular disruption.
  • (7) This modified endocrine activity in brook trout may reflect adjustment to adverse external ionic conditions.
  • (8) It is concluded that in the mouse model the ability of buspirone to reduce the aversive response to a brightly illuminated area may reflect an anxiolytic action, that the dorsal raphe nucleus may be an important locus of action, and that the effects of buspirone may reflect an interaction at 5-hydroxytryptamine receptors.
  • (9) We assessed changes in brain water content, as reflected by changes in tissue density, during the early recirculation period following severe forebrain ischemia.
  • (10) Many problems at the macroscopic level require clarification of how an animal uses a compartment of suite of muscles and whether morphological differences reflect functional ones.
  • (11) Defibrotide prevents the dramatic fall of creatine phosphokinase activity in the ischemic ventricle: metabolic changes which reflect changes in the cells affected by prolonged ischemia.
  • (12) The combined results suggest that any possible heterogeneity in the L-CAM genes is not reflected in the size of either the mRNA or protein.
  • (13) Rigidly fixing the pubic symphysis stiffened the model and resulted in principal stress patterns that did not reflect trabecular density or orientations as well as those of the deformable pubic symphysis model.
  • (14) It is also a clear sign of our willingness and determination to step up engagement across the whole range of the EU-Turkey relationship to fully reflect the strategic importance of our relations.
  • (15) Subtle differences between Chicago urban and Grand Forks rural climates are reflected in arthritic subjects' degree of pain and their perception of pain-related stress.
  • (16) We propose that the results mainly reflect a variable local impact of infection control and that a much more restrictive use of IUTCs is possible in many wards.
  • (17) At 1 month after the start of the treatment, normalization of PAP or gamma-Sm was not reflected in the following course.
  • (18) The complication might have been prevented by measurements of U and I, reflecting changes in impedance or by measurements of catheter tip temperature (T).
  • (19) Critical in this understanding are the subtle changes that occur in the individual patient, reflecting the natural history of the disease or response to its treatment.
  • (20) In scanning of more than 20 Hz frequency, the spectral pattern also reflected the characteristics of the cone system.